R72 to R7ME gearbox swap question

I'll be doing this in the near future, my 3rd and 4th gears have just started getting noisy.

Which kit did you buy? Any specific hassles, or all just plain sailing?

Venter wrote: I'll be doing this in the near future, my 3rd and 4th gears have just started getting noisy.

Which kit did you buy? Any specific hassles, or all just plain sailing?

Out of interest, What year is your gearbox and is the intermediate prop leaking from the gearbox end? My 06 red ulysses is leaking from there...

Have you sealed the cap inside the prop flange?

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Strange thing is that I haven't noticed any leaking of oil. Got it parked on a dirty gravelly farm drive, so would be easy to miss if it's only small amounts, but I need to get under it to have a closer look. Will do so this weekend.

I'd have thought I'd have smelt any oil splashing onto the hot exhaust mid-section though. What I have noticed is a rough, almost rattly sound in 3rd and 4th. All other gears are fine.

Mine is a 2009, so on the cusp of when they started producing them with sealed bearings and nodifed props, but guessing my one missed out.

Edit: Just thinking, all this has happened since a recent gearbox oil change. Filled it up till the oil poured out the filler hole, but access is so dodgy down there that I wonder if I didn't fill it up fully. I was happy that the amount refilled was the specified amount, but am now wondering how much poured out and if filler hose was fully in the hole.

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mlines wrote: Have you sealed the cap inside the prop flange?

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Not yet,

that is the first thing i will try. Its in bits for welding, when time allows i will try that