Richard -
The selector balls (and selector springs) help keep your car in gear
all the time. When you are coasting downhill, this reversal of thrust
direction in the box puts modest pressure on the selector to pop out
of gear. If you don't have the selector balls and springs in there,
or they are not functioning properly, your car will pop out of gear
every time you coast downhill in gear.
If you go down a really steep hill an Austin gearbox will pop out of
gear anyway (e.g. California St. in San Francisco), but any properly
sorted Healey gear box should almost never pop out of gear.
Alan
On 9/27/07, RThrift <rthrift@cox.net> wrote:
> Maybe that's my problem, not the synchros? Could you amplify, Alan? Maybe
> some differential diagnosis?
>
> thanks
> Richard
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