Hi guys, I'm Justin from Belgium, I'm the proud owner of a dark olive green manual 855r,
Car has 235 000 kms and I'm affraid a gear box bearing has gone out (sort of dampened grinding noise following the speed of the car and increasing noise level on accelerations and decelerations).

Previous owner told me he rebuit the gearbox (a bearing and syncros) but has he couldn't find the correct bearing he used and Integra R type so he had to adapt the bore in the GB to accomodate the type R bearing. My guess is that the same bearing has gone out again...
I have two solutions:
1 rebuild the box or replace it with a 2d hand M56 GB fitted with a Quaife.

My question is: does all the 850 M56s are the same (except for those fitted with the2.5TDI that has a shorter ratio)? If yes I would find try a low mileage 2.0L NA 850 to source it's GB, assuming that the lower the output of the engine the better the GB!!!
Does that make sense??

Thanks in advance