I can't over emphasise what Jeroen has said about the mainshaft circlip. Failure of this 6p part has caused me to strip and rebuild more of these and the similar 3 rail boxes than ANY other single fault! (except possibly worn laygear bearings but that's not a catastrophic failure)
Steve
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