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Evening All,
Today I noticed that suddenly the gears were a lot more notchy than I am used to. On the way to work this morning I drove through a fairly deep flood across the road. Do you think it could have got in the gearbox and now would need an oil change? Is it able to get in there?
Seems really coincidental if that's not the cause..
Any ideas?
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The oiled part of the gearbox is sealed as far as im aware apart from a breather but thats ontop of the gearbox so i doubt anything has got in! See what happens over the next few days?
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Try greasing the ball joints on the gear linkages. If that doesn't work I'd be changing the box oil as a precaution.
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Also worth putting a bit of lube on the rubber ball that the metal sleeve thing sits on above the steering rack while you've got the grease out.
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75w80, or the new stuff is straight 75w, definitely get it from peugeot unless there's a Motaquip factors locally that does total.
make sure it is not EP oil.
it may be the clutch self adjuster as that is on the lowest point of the cable, if that got full of water and mud then it could have altered the bite point.
