In a message dated 9/27/00 9:45:46 PM EDT, racespit@netzero.net writes:
> Brad has very nicely found an overdrive gearbox for my street
> Spitfire Elliott -- it is a single-rail tranny with J-type O/D
> with the ID number WH19255 and was sold to him by Scott at Team
> Triumph as a Spitfire box. The guy who is rebuilding it thinks it
> is a close-ratio box and that it might be for an MG Midget. Now,
> the WH prefix does not show up as being a Spitfire ID number in my
> Vicky Brit catalog -- does anyone out there know what a WH box
> fits, and if the input shaft will fit a 1300 Spit engine?
Susan, if I read my John Kipping Triumph Spares catalogue correctly, the WH
prefix indicates a Dolomite 1850 application. Glancing at the VTR Web site's
table of "small car gear ratio sets"
<http://www.vtr.org/maintain/gearbox-ratios.html>, the original Dolomite 1850
gearset falls somewhere in between the wider ratios of a single-rail Spit
1500 gearbox and the closer ratios of, say, a GT6 or late Vitesse gearbox.
What's the diameter and number of splines on the input shaft? It might
already have the Spitfire input shaft fitted. (ISTR the Spitfire used a 7/8"
input shaft while the GT6, later Vitesse and probably Dolomite 1850 had a 1"
shaft. Someone will know better than I about that.)
--Andy
Andrew Mace, President, The Vintage Triumph Register
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