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I can't watch your dropbox videos cos I don't have an account. But from the written description of the sound effects and their variations i'm willing to make a guess, which is that you have chipped a tooth on the laygear cluster probably the gear that is driven by the input shaft, at the very front.
You do not need a Dropbox account. Just close the account box and click on Play button.
[/quote]There is another common fault on this (Herald derived) gearbox which is failure of the mainshaft circlip This innocuous clip, all 10p worth of it, holds the 3rd/4th synchro hub and 3rd gear onto the mainshaft and can cause all manner of noises, rattles and difficult gear selection when it fails. But that's the clue to why I don't think it's this fault this time, you haven't recorded any difficulty getting the gears. In the worst case this circlip failure can result in the car getting irretrievably stuck in 1 gear (usually 1st or 2nd) but ALWAYS makes selection harder at least.[/quote]
Generally no troubles getting it into gear, although it crunches a bit into second going up or down.