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Re: [Healeys] Separation of Overdrive from gearbox

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Subject: Re: [Healeys] Separation of Overdrive from gearbox
From: "Peter Schauss" <schauss@worldnet.att.net>
Date: Wed, 21 May 2008 20:58:59 -0400
I have always kept the adapter plate with the overdrive so that I did not
have to mess with the springs.  Mine always came apart rather easily IIRC.
Are you certain that there is not a ninth bolt hidden somewhere.

Peter Schauss
1963 BJ7
1980 MGB

> -----Original Message-----
> From: healeys-bounces+schauss=worldnet.att.net@autox.team.net
> [mailto:healeys-bounces+schauss=worldnet.att.net@autox.team.net] On Behalf
> Of Mark and Kathy
> Sent: Wednesday, May 21, 2008 7:30 PM
> To: Ken Wignall; healeys@autox.team.net
> Subject: Re: [Healeys] Separation of Overdrive from gearbox
>
> Thats a hard one to put into words.   However the Bentley and the Haynes
> manuals
> shows this very well in their pictorials.  I know the pump will get in the
> way on assembly if it is not held in but I don't think this was a
> hindrance
> when I disassembled the units.   I seem to remember it sort of popping
> apart
> via the tension
> of the springs inside.    There are two ways to split it,  depending on
> which half you want the adapter plate to go with.   The manual shows  the
> adapter plate staying with the gear case not the overdrive unit.
>
> Sorry its been too long.
>
> Mark
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Ken Wignall" <ourxke@hotmail.com>
> To: <healeys@autox.team.net>
> Sent: Wednesday, May 21, 2008 6:41 PM
> Subject: [Healeys] Separation of Overdrive from gearbox
>
>
> > We are doing an overhaul on the sideshifter gearbox and overdrive from a
> > 1962
> > Bt7. We have removed the 8 bolts and go to slide the overdrive from the
> > main
> > shaft of the gearbox but it won't come off. We understand that there are
> > splines in the overdrive that must be misaligned somehow, but we just
> > can't
> > get it off. Any suggestions? The overdrive did not engage prior to
> > removal.
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