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[mister bridger]

Flattened the tab washer and just cant seem to find a way of locking the shaft to undo the nut! Help!

[tiger99]

If you are doing this with engine and box in situ, which is possible but awkward (been there, done it), you will need to put it in 4th gear and find a way of locking the engine. If I have got my rotations correct, that can be a spanner on the crankshaft pulley nut.

If the gearbox is out and partly dismantled, undo the selector forks and manually engage both first and fourth gears.

[mister bridger]

Engine and box are together but out of the car. This makes it very difficult to get it into any gear without the lever attached and working clutch

[Guess-Works.com]

Silly question, but why are you undoing the pinion nut ? if only to change the final drive, at which point you will also need to remove the differential, which means it's a lot easier to put the gearbox into two gears at once, and I suggest reverse and 4th...