Gearbox failure

[Ruan]

Interesting, probably is worth sandwiching a plate between the end of the casing and the cover.

Looks like it'd be much more of a bastard to put something on the other end, but every little helps eh.

[Rippthrough]

Used to run external straps on the old VW transaxles to stop them splaying apart under shock. The pegs behind the shafts and diff.

[miles]

Everyone has there ways, I know AB motorsport used a larger bearing on the input shaft end which some BTCC box's did but as WP said the gap then between the 2 bearings in the end case got so close it cracked, well on the BTCC ones, you even need to watch when fitting a single plate Race clutch the clutch arm top bearing area can fail as well due to the extra load on it.
Old race box's I did used Roller bearings instead of the bush's which these days for some reason seems all to be forgotten about

[allye]

If you are smashing gear boxes all the time I'd suggest you start looking at your driving style even with higher than normal outputs.

ML gear boxes are a huge amount stronger and a avenue worth Investigsting at some point for sure. I've never heard of a V6 killing one, I curtainly gave mine some stick and plenty of hard launches. I even drove it 80 miles with no clutch, bumping it on the starer every junction!

Down side to that is gear cables do not give a nice change compared to a well sorted rod set up in my opinion.