<VV> First Gear Grumble

[Tony]

At 1902 03/07/2004 -0700, Geoff Johnson wrote:
>Today we pulled apart the 66 four speed from our Corsa.  The history of 
>this box is unknown.  It had sat in my fathers garage for 20 years when we 
>put it in the Corsa last year.  It works great and shifts easlily and 
>smoothly but has had this grumbling sound in first since we put it in.  We 
>were expecting to find worn needle bearings or one of the two big bearings 
>to be worn.  They all looked good with no noticeable wear.  So we put in 
>new needle bearings and a new countershaft just to be sure.  So back 
>together it went.  Question is what else could it be?  Or is it just plain 
>noisy?  Sound is audible whenever the tranny is shifted into first, clutch 
>in or out and only when the car is in motion.  Only happens noticeably in 
>first.
>


Did you change the input shaft bearing?  Ignore the fact that it might
"look OK"...  it's notorious for being noisy in 1st, and not just Vair gear
boxes.   


tony..