Hi Jim,
Nice that you had such good success in the rebuild of the gearbox in your
wife's car.
Lot's of LBC owners do a "rebuild" on their gearboxes. If you follow the
manual and
keep the tolerance where they belong and use new parts where needed, they turn
out
pretty good. Most of the time! Good rebuilds aren't cheap, either.
I still rebuild these for customers and I get some pretty creatively done
things inside
the cases!!! LOL! It still isn't rocket science to do a good job, but they
can be a
trying experience at times, especially when using an assortment of used parts
to get it
back together. Used is sometimes just plain shot! As in worn out.
Taking it apart and cleaning all parts and doing a reassemble using the same
pieces is
not a "rebuild"! Wonder why the same noises are present? Will it get better
as I break
it in? LOL!
Regards, Paul A
Jim Juhas wrote:
> Paul, and others:
>
> Last Spring, I rebuilt the ribcase in my wife's '69 Sprite to cure some angry
> growling from first gear. I have done transmissions before, (Muncie 4 speed,
>Ford
> SROD, Saab 96, more) and never thought much of it. The Sprite turned out
>fine. The
> parts came speedily from Moss via British Parts Connection, and there were no
>real
> mysteries. New laygear, shaft, various bearings.
>
> My question: do many listers here do their own transmission work? When I
>spoke of
> this at my car club meeting, people seemed surprised that an amateur mechanic
>would
> tackle a job like this. (Maybe they were surprised that I was able to do it?)
>
> Anyway, I was curious as to whether others consider such work to be DIY stuff.
>
> "Paul A. Asgeirsson" wrote:
>
> > These trannies have a tendency to have the detent ball springs lose tension
>and
> > break. Replacing the springs with those from a rib case do help some.
>Replacing
> > the broken ones certainly helps too!
> >
> > Later, Paul A
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