Thread: 5 speed Nissan box

Originally Posted by drifter

Excellent, thank you. All good - I can now identify my gearbox.

I did find one picture on the internet:



This is a Nissan GQ gearbox set up on a Land Rover transfer case by Marks Adaptors.

Not a problem.

Yes, I saw that image when I was doing my research too, but couldn't yield much from it. That's about the only image on the net too.

I actually had the impression the author of that article was just guessing as to the heritage of the box in that image, as he offered nothing by way of support for his suggestion that it's a GQ Patrol box.

It looks very much like the one I have, bell housing disregarded again, but I'm still under the impression that my gearbox is a Cabstar, or Caball box.

I think the differences are in the input shaft diameters, as well as spline tooth numbers.

To be honest, I'm not going to be able to know until I can get it on the road and tested.

The ratio's of 1st gear are different between each of them too, if I'm not mistaken.

Yeah - I have even looked at the Marks site and looked at the current range of gearboxes they discuss on there. They have a chart of gear ratios.

*sigh*

I'm sure it will all come out when I start stripping the vehicle down.

It's a pity Nissan didn't put a model mark on the box.

A mate has a couple of 240Z boxes and the only mark on them is on the bell housing. And it is an obscure mark. Nothing anywhere that clearly says NISSAN, let alone the model.

Originally Posted by drifter

Yeah - I have even looked at the Marks site and looked at the current range of gearboxes they discuss on there. They have a chart of gear ratios.

*sigh*

I'm sure it will all come out when I start stripping the vehicle down.

It's a pity Nissan didn't put a model mark on the box.

A mate has a couple of 240Z boxes and the only mark on them is on the bell housing. And it is an obscure mark. Nothing anywhere that clearly says NISSAN, let alone the model.

Yeah....I did all that, and quite a bit more too. I don't even want to think about how much Internet I burned up, nor the lost sleep.....

I even had a parts guru mate working on it to help me out, and after 2 days he became almost as frustrated as I was, and he's been a very talented parts man all his working life.

In the end, due to never ending conflicts in parts manuals, and no way to determine what was what, and all the rest, the only safe bet was to load everything into the back of the ute and haul it all over to the other side of town, where we were told of a clutch place that should be able to sort it all out.

Got there, and the man at the counter came out and had a look, and after a few moments, he walked away shaking his head, seemingly defeated, and because he walked away without even a word, we just stood there looking around and waiting to see what happened next...

Then an older chap emerged, like a big old bear, and with the other bloke in tow, proceeded to walk over to the back of the ute with a sort of squint in his eye, so we just stood aside and waited...

Then I explained what the project was, and without him even touching anything, he turned to the other bloke and started rattling off parts numbers, and told him to rip open such and such a kit, and snag a bit out of that, and then grab a bit out of this, and so on.

The other bloke turned to walk away, but stopped and asked what he should do to square up the ledgers, given that he'd now have a swag of incomplete kits opened. The older fellow told him to write "incomplete kit" on all the boxes and return them all to their origins of manufacture. The younger bloke looked alarmed, but turned and walked back inside.

As the older bloke walked off, a bit like John Wayne with bit of a beer gut, he spun around and said, "you want a spigot to suit that too"?

Fwoarrr, in the tenseness of the moment, we'd forgotten all about the spigot!

Ahhhhh, yes please...

He then called after the other bloke and told him to add a (whatever the number was) to the list....and off he went, back into his cave...

We were then told to head up the road to the parts warehouse to collect all the bits.

The people there quizzed us as to why they were ripping open kits and taking bits and pieces like this, we just said we needed that combination and left it at that.

The gear was all packed and handed over to us, so we then rocked over to the ute, and ripped open all the boxes and test fitted each part individually to ensure the old bloke hadn't made a blue.

Not that we didn't trust him, to be honest we were both in awe of him.

The parts all matched, so off we went, happy as larks!

Mate, you just have to love those old parts blokes, they're absolutely awesome.

My hat's off to him, that's for sure.

How's this, we asked if they had clutch fork dust boots, slave rods and a few other things, and were told to go to yet another place just up the road, thus we zoomed over there, full of confidence.

Walked in, asked the bloke for this...Narp!....asked for that...Narp!...this? Narp!...Narp!..Narp!....

Walked out of there with mouths agape, stunned by the contrast in professionalism....and I couldn't help commenting that they oughta change the sign outside, which declared them to be the stockers of anything like the stuff we sought...I proposed they change that sign to NARP! in big bold font...

Amazing, eh?

When you find a good one you tend to keep going back.