Hello All. Could Someone Tell Me What This Plug/plate Is For? Thanks.

[mrben]

The plate that is to the left of the geabox oil fill plug, with the 2 bolts on each side (picture attached)

Thanks.

[daddyfixit]

im going to hazard a guess that its the pivot point for reverse or top gear selector arm ?

 

don't fiddle with it !  or that gearbox may be wanting to lie down alongside your car with a Haynes manual ....

[BrianH]

If you want to look whats on the other side a boroscope camera should be able to get through the fill hole. Bear in mind the gearbox is similar to other ones used across the Ford range of vehicles.

 

Why do you want to know what it is? a problem or just curiosity?

[mrben]

Curiosity. I originally thought this is where you put the gearbox oil, until I saw the hex

plug next to it. Thanks chaps.

[BrianH]

If you'd asked a couple of months ago i could have looked at the knackered similar box I'd got off a Mondeo we were getting rid of! (the box was making a horrible noise somewhere on the output, we'd only taken it apart as we wanted to know what the source of the noise was and the car was being scrapped at any rate)

[mrben]

Dar, shame. Did you find out what the problem was with your box, the noise?

[BrianH]

Dar, shame. Did you find out what the problem was with your box, the noise?

No sign of any problem - suspect it was actually a driveshaft causing it to generate a noise like a b52!, though car had other issues anyway (i'd been given it a couple of years ago to use for spares for mine which has since got to the point where the sills have parted company with the rest of the car, so isn't going to be back on the road).

 

suspected the box as when we drained it it was full of Red ATF rather than the expected gear oil, but no signs of any debris etc there to indicate any sort of fault

Edited May 27, 2017 by BrianH

[mrben]

Ah right. I wonder why on earth someone put automatic fluid in there? Strange.

[sparky Paul]

I had an early Vauxhall Calibra 4x4 with red fluid in the manual gearbox from new, a bit puzzling when I took the 5th gear end plate off when the clutch release bearing went up the spout. Spec was for standard 75W-90 if I remember correctly, but the fluid did look like ATF.

 

However, I found out it was a red coloured synthetic manual gearbox oil, and definitely not ATF.

[mrben]

Mmmm. The plot thickens. Well something learned there.