reverse gear noisy

[punk180]

Hey Guys,

im new here and have just bought a 94' mk3 Golf GL and whilst in reverse its quite noisy and will sometimes pop out of gear under load.

Ive spoken to a guy at work and he seems to think that the reverse gear commonly chips on these things, but it is an easy job to replace (about half a day with the gearbox on) but i have been searching and cant seem to find any info on being able to swap the gear over for such an apparent easy and common job.

Can anyone else point me in the right direction into where i can find any info about swapping the reverse gear over or is there something more sinister going on.
The car drives well apart from this.

P.s i know there have been plenty of posts on this but i just need to clarify that it isnt as easy a fix.

Cheers

[Umai Naa!!]

Define 'easy'.

You'll need to take the box out, split the casings, and remove the gearset to get reverse gear out.

If the gear is stripped, ideally, you'll need to tear the transmission right down, to collect all the fragments of the gear.

[Dubba]

new gearbox.

Same problem with the mcm golf at the start

[punk180]

Recons easy like half day job take inspection plate off???? And then it should be right there. I think i might just pull the gearbox out and get them to fix it.
It still goes in reverse no worries and only comes out if you really gas it

[Umai Naa!!]

Reverse gear is buried in the gearbox, not on the end with 5th gear like other FWD transmissions.