Nose cone?
Nose cone?
What on earth is a "Nose Cone" for the IS200 gearbox?
Apparently they cost £60 and I need one??
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No idea. Can't really find out via Google either, though I can see lots of references to it on various cars.
Did you say yesterday that you had a problem with your gear lever, or am I thinking of something else ?
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yea the gear lever needed welding together after it stuck in 5th and broke, causing the clutch to slip a lot, thus causing the failure!! but nothing to do with the nose cone, i will find out tomorrow its just that I don't like spending money on things that I don't know about.
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ok, just wondered if the gear lever problem was connected with the nose cone. Let us know what it is when you find out ! I know what you mean though, I'd want to know what it was, what had happened to it and why.
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ok, I could well be wrong but I *think* it might be the "front bearing retainer" in this diagram.
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Did you manage to find out what it is/was ?
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yea the part is the front bearing retainer. This has failed, causing the clutch release bearing to get fowled up on the clutch cover plate and they all self destructed.

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Yay, I figured it out correctly lol. Took a lot of Googling, mind 
Bummer though Phil, do you know if the flywheel survived ? Got an ETA for the new parts and getting it back on the road ?
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