Pieter -
Frankly speaking, if you can shift the car and it works, from my perspective
there's no reason to rebuild the gearbox unless you absolutely have to. No
healey is easy to downshift, so evaluating your gearbox based on it's
ability to downshift is a mistake. Healey gearboxes don't downshift easily,
period.
Sounds to me like your selector forks are a little worn, but that's no
reason to break down the gearbox. When shifting, make sure your hand is
square on top of the shifter and use slow, purposeful shifts, straight in
and straight out of each gear, and you will find that your car shifts just
fine.
At the end of the day a healey will never shift like a Toyota Camry.
Best Regards,
Alan
'53 BN1 '64 BJ8
On 12/16/05, Pieter and Linda Scheenhouwer <pieterscheen@optusnet.com.au>
wrote:
>
> After 16 years, five homes, one wife and two kids my BJ7 is finally
> finished
> and on the road. Now come the "sorting out" of all the little problems. So
> I
> am after some gearbox advice. The shift between reverse/ first/ second is
> vague to say the least and down changes from 3rd to 2nd impossible despite
> double clutching and even up changes 1st to 2nd must be taken slowly.
> First
> gear is very noisey but the rest of the gears operate fine. Obviously I am
> up for a gearbox rebuild but would like your ideas on the potential
> problems. Could it just be mostly the selector wear or do you think I have
> layshaft problems?
>
> Cheers
>
> Pieter
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