Subject:
FW: 1500 gearbox....Marina?
Date:
Mon, 18 Aug 1997 11:28:02 -0400
From:
MSMCL301.JGAMBO01@eds.com
To:
"susan, SUSAN3" <susan@GROTECON.COM>
(Another post from me for Jim -- his server won't let him send out!
Please respond to him at:
msmcl301.jgambo01@eds.com
if you want to go underground, or to me if you can't get through to
him. He does get the list, so posting there is fine. --Susan)
As the owner of several Spitfire 1500s and a '76 midget parts car
(bought
for the drive train to put in my Spit, they're the same!) I can safely
state
that the transmission used in the rubber bumper Midget (75 on) and the
Spitfire (post 74) are one and the same.
If you've looked in any of the Spitfire catalogs, this transmission is
referred to as a "single rail" gear box. There is only one (exposed)
selector rail running from the shift lever fulcrum to the top of the
gear
box. This trans was a replacement for the earlier "three rail" gear box
which had an aluminum extension from the top of the gear box which
carries
shift lever.
Jim
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From: triumphs-owner
To: JGAMBO01
Subject: Re: 1500 gearbox....Marina?
Date: Friday, August 15, 1997 10:29PM
tom.omalley@channel1.com wrote:
> The new box also appeared in the Spitfire and Midget 1500s where
> it fared *somewhat* better.
The Midget 1500 box and Spitfire box perhaps share
some lineage, but again, they are not the same.
If you mean internals, it makes sense, since that is
where reliability is made or broken.
However, the cases are not the same, and the
boxes themselves are definitely not interchangeable.
Witness the market for the conversion kits that, with
a bit of welding and cutting, put the spitfire box in a
Midget 1500.
--
Trevor Boicey
Ottawa, Canada
tboicey@brit.ca
http://www.brit.ca/~tboicey/
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