Patrick,
The procedure is simple and essentially British: bolster the gearbox and O/D
and remove the car from around it.
Actually, I've done a BN2 and a BJ8, and they're basically the same. For the
BJ8, remove the seats, console and gearbox
cover. Remove the starter, and I believe you have to remove the propshaft
completely. Unbolt and support the slave
cylinder, rear mounts and the fansaver tierod. Support the bellhousing and
engine at the backplate, remove the bolts
and you can pull the gearbox/OD rearward enough to free them, then lift both
out of the car (in my youth I lifted them
myself, but I'm older, weaker and wiser now and would need a hoist).
As always, replacement is the reverse of removal.
Bob
On 1/12/2014 4:26 PM, Patrick & Caroline Quinn wrote:
> G'day
>
>
>
> I am about to do something that in 42 years of Austin-Healey ownership I
> have managed to avoid.
>
>
>
> That's the removal of a BJ8 gearbox.
>
>
>
> I have removed many a BN1 box and have lost count of the number of times I
> have removed and refitted the gearbox (100S + OD) in the BN3 and have even
> removed a gearbox in a real Healey, but never one from a BJ8.
>
>
>
> Please tell me that apart from the console and other modern (?) stuff there
> isn't much of a difference?
>
>
>
> Hoo Roo
>
>
>
> Patrick Quinn
>
> Blue Mountains, Australia
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