At 08:39 PM 9/9/96 -0400, LanceKL@aol.com wrote:
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>Have never heard of the wooler shifter. What is it?
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Lance
Don't know how much you know about the 4/4s especially the Series
Vs. They have the Kent (English Ford) 1500cc engines and the Ford
4 speed xmissions.
I don't know about the +8s, but the +4s have the Moss xmission mounted
remotely for the engine. The 4/4s Ford xmission couples right up
to the block [like a normal car :)]. However, with this xisssion
the shift lever ends up being only a few inches back from the
firewall. Consiquently, the driver can't reach it. The *normal*
(if there is such a thing on a Morgan) system then ties a rod to
the top of the shift lever and into a slide on the firewall. So
the 4/4s have a push pull H shifting pattern. It is a little
awkward but not too bad.
The Wooller shift kit is a bolt on attachment the remotes the
shift lever back about 2 feet so its at the dash. It improves
the shifting quite a bit. This is the ONLY remote shifter that
was *Factory* approved. The Factory ground off the Wooller name
from the castings.
Eventually, Ford came out with a system just like the Wooller and
the Wooller sort of went by the way. I personally feel that this
should have been standard on all 4/4 Series Vs, Competition and 1600
but it wasn't. Don't know how many the Factory actually released.
In the Original Morgan book by Worrall and Turner, there is a picture
of the Wooller system on page 72.
K. Lipscomb
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