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RE: Works type shifter

To: "John Snyder" <helyjohn@cablespeed.com>, <healeys@autox.team.net>
Subject: RE: Works type shifter
From: "Ron Fine" <RonFineEsq@earthlink.net>
Date: Sat, 9 Apr 2005 07:22:40 -0700
John,  could you describe in greater detail how you bent the lever.
Measuring from the top end, where did you make the bend and how much of a
bend?  Do you just put it in a vise, hit it with a Mapp gas torch until red
and apply pressure?  Then do you let it cool slowly or throw some water on
it?
Thanks,
Ron Fine

If what you call the Z type shift lever is the one w/ the rear portion bent
up to a more vertical position,  the answer is yes.  Per the Clausager book
and the Anderson/Moment book, the change to the shift lever was at engine #
29D/20598, Aug '60.  It is called the "cranked" lever.  I'm currently
restoring an early BN7 MK2 which is supposed to have this lever, but did
not.  Could not find one.  Had a bunch of the "L" shaped levers.  Using a
micrometer, found the point on the L lever diameter that matched a long
enough portion of another L lever to give the length necessary to heat and
bend in the crank.  Still need to have it chromed, but it looks like it will
turn out good.




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