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Posted: Tue Sep 11, 2007 7:09 pm 
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gday, im putting a EF t5 into my XF, i was wondering is there a way to tell if its a XR6 box or not? are they the same? also dumb question, where do i find the speedo cog?
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Posted: Tue Sep 11, 2007 7:38 pm 
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XR and non XR are identical boxes.

Speedo Drive is on the Right Hand side of the extension housing (about mid way) The sender unit usually has a red coated pvc cable atteched to it.

To see if its a later model box (eb2 onwards) look for the roofing Nail on the Left hand side of the case.

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Posted: Tue Sep 11, 2007 8:23 pm 
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OH ok thanks mate, much appreciated
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Posted: Tue Sep 11, 2007 9:28 pm 
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i thought the xr6 box has tapered input shaft bearings (wotever that means). just read it in my gregories manual.

mine is supposed to be an xr6 box too. dunno for sure tho

 

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Posted: Tue Sep 11, 2007 10:11 pm 
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Yep, I have also been told that the xr6 boxes use different bearings. Mal Wood also charges more for an e-series xr6 t5 than a 'standard' t5.

 

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Posted: Tue Sep 11, 2007 10:42 pm 
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the ea t5's havea higher ratio in 1st gear as well apparently the ea box is the better of the 3,, this is what i have been told any way

 

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Posted: Tue Sep 11, 2007 10:47 pm 
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ef_ridin_low wrote:
the ea t5's havea higher ratio in 1st gear as well apparently the ea box is the better of the 3,, this is what i have been told any way


Yes and no. The EAs do have a short 1st gear but it is a little too short for anything other than the 2.77 and 2.92 diffs that they came with. They are also the weakest of all the t5's.

 

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Posted: Tue Sep 11, 2007 10:56 pm 
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bluecube wrote:
i thought the xr6 box has tapered input shaft bearings (wotever that means). just read it in my gregories manual.
The EBII/ED/XG gregories is referring to the bearing between the input shaft and the mainshaft - XF/EA has 15 parallel rollers, while EBII onwards runs a tapered roller bearing.

I've had an EL XR6 T5 apart recently to check a synchro issue - I didn't find any difference in the bearings used compared to a std EBII T5.
There were revisions to the synchro assy's, etc, but nothing greatly relevant to this discussion.

 

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