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I wonder if anyone can help me,
My friends 1997 1400 8v has decided to develope an oil leak from the gearbox selector shaft seal.
Does anyone know how difficult this job is to do with the gearbox still in the car, and I've been told you need a special tool to do it, so does anyone know what sort ...

I wonder if anyone can help me,
My friends 1997 1400 8v has decided to develope an oil leak from the gearbox selector shaft seal.
Does anyone know how difficult this job is to do with the gearbox still in the car, and I've been told you need a special tool to do it, so does anyone know what sort of ...

I've just changed the box on my 1997 1.4 8 valve polo, and all I did was marked the position on the old box, them measured and put the linkage in the same position on the new box.
Only one is adjustable as the other is held in position with a split pin style clip.

I've got my old gearbox sitting in a wheel barrow in the garden at the moment, it was taken out last week with bearing troubles.
I'm in Essex, its yours for a drink, as I was going to take it apart myself to see what had gone wrong with it, but If I can help someone else out, then so be it.

Its an 8 valve.
Its deffinatly the cable type as its got the two seperate cables going to the selector on the rear of the gearbox.
The ones over my local breakers appeared all to be 8 valve, but some had cable and some had rod gear change linkages.
I was just wondering if there was any difference in ...

I'm new to the forum, Im sorry my first post is a question.

I have recently purchased a R reg 1400cc polo with Gearbox trouble.
I've since removed the gearbox and found the end cap casing full of swarf, so I can safely say my gearbox is U/S.
My gearbox is the Cable Gear Linkage type with the ...