BGH Geartech - a thank you

[jeffw]

I have a HD Type9 Alloy cased gearbox from BGH in my car. It was last rebuilt 18 months ago by them to its current spec. Since then I've notice the odd drip of oil but nothing much until the box started whining at the end of last year, at each point I filled it up again(!). This noise came to a head at Brands in Dec which culminated in a large pool of oil under the car.

So as the engine was coming out during the build anyway I got the box sent off to BGH to rebuilt again. Turns out one of the bolts at the front of the box had disappeared and this was where the oil had been coming from. On inspection the gears themselves where fine but the bearings where shot. New bearings/seals etc plus alignment and checking and the box is back in the car at FSCs.

So I rang Chris at BGH to settle up the bill to be told.....no charge as it was their fault that the bolt came out.

I've always said that the sign of a good company is not how they deal with you when things go well it is how they cope when things go wrong. So a big thank you to BGH for standing by their workmanship and product 18months on. Well Done.

[Edd]

Good news.
BGH had a lot of bad press when running the Fury. Suspect they bit of more than they could chew.
Chris is a nice load.
Edd

[jeffw]

or lad

[RobMsport]

Is Brian Hill still at BGH He was always without equal technically and very fair price wise . He let me have a Caterham shaft for my box (last one he had) that should have been three times the cost he charged me when rebuilding my box. A very knowledgable guy.

[jeffw]

Brian is still around doing development work.

[dopdog]

this was the same issue i had with my gearbox apart from Tran X just said tuff to me . i know where to go next time.