type E input shaft play

[simon varley]

so I wasn't planning to do anything to the gearbox other than clean it, replace seals and change oil, but now its out of the car I can see that the input shaft has some lateral play, maybe 2mm at the tip.  Is that normal or do I need to replace the input shaft bearing? 

 

thanks.

[colr6]

Normal leave it. Unless gearbox was noises no problem

[katana]

I believe a little play is expected due to manufacturing tolerances of gearbox bolted to bell housing bolted to engine and after all the input shaft is centralised and held inline in the crank end. I had the bearing replaced as it was a bit rough - not noisy and it was only £30 or so, so why not.