FWIW

the thing that lets the suzi eat a gearbox is its torque impulse at or near idle especially if loaded up and "chugging"

the rapid acceleration and deceleration of the shafts makes the helical cut gears change thrust loadings significantly which is sort of the equivelent of using a jack hammer on your bearings over time. If Ive still got them the piccy's of the dead box from brian hejlms county (lt85) provide a perfect illustration of this. I cut the front off of the fubar input shaft to make a clutch alignment tool but he might still have the bits and be able to take some more pics of exactly what turns to swarf behind the isuzu.

a short term solution to the problem is to up the idle speed of the suzi. of course a pure square cut box would be my long term solution, no thrust loading of the shafts then. (just woefull tooth contact to worry about)

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