Can't Bolt Gearbox To Block

[Kitch 4]

Come across a bit of an issue today. The bolt in the pic below down by the diff is supposed to screw into the bell housing to connect gearbox to block. Problem is the thread has stripped in the bell housing and the bottom of the box trys to split away from the engine causing the clutch to not operate properly and the d/shaft seals to leak because the shaft is sitting at a bad angle.

 

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I expect its a new bell housing/gearbox situation here, but I wasn't sure if there might be a quick fix to the problem? Its always worth asking!

 

I was thinking bigger bolt or heli-coiling or something like that.....anyone else had the same problem?

 

Cheers

 

edit: image changed to link, see image posting guidelines

Edited February 26, 2006 by jackherer

[jackherer 543]

I've seen that on a few 205s, and a 106 Rallye too. My mates car had that bolt missing and we just carefully torqued the others up (with the weight of the engine and gearbox taken by a jack or hoist) with a bit of threadlock and kept a close eye on it and it was ok for a good 30k miles (although he does have a new gearbox now).

[Miles 331 1 Cars]

You can Helicoil that, No problems

[C_W 3 1 Cars]

One of my gearboxes did that but when they did come apart a bit it never had any clutch or oil leak problems. Not sure its that one that seems to fail it may be from under tightening them or something, not sure.

[jackherer 543]

Out of the three cars Ive seen with this problem all three had leaky driveshaft oil seals and two had knackered clutches. I put different gearboxes on the cars with knackered clutches as I had them available so I dont know if they were damaged in any way. The 106 Rallye had recently had a downpipe fitted by a Peugeot dealers (TU downpipes are secured by the bolt in question) which was a bit worrying to say the least.