[Healeys] Gearlever Boot

[keith taylor]

Patrick if you kicked off a DRONGO FORUM it would get more hits than
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Keith Taylor
WAMBERAL  OZ
BN1
BN2
100M....if I ever finish them

2009/7/11 Patrick and Caroline Quinn <p_cquinn at tpg.com.au>

> G'day
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> I am in the process of preparing the BN3/1 for new carpets.
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> Part of the job is sealing where the gearlever enters through the gearbox
> tunnel which in the car consists of 5 separate pieces. The gearbox is 100S,
> with gearlever affixed to the gearbox the same way as any side shift.
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> In the past the rubber gearlever boot has just sat there with nothing
> holding it and of course the hot air just rushed in. I was fitting a plate
> I
> had made to hold the boot to the tunnel when it occurred to me that for 25
> years I have had the gearlever boot (gaiter) upside down - don't laugh!!!!
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> I never realised that the gearlever boot actually stretches and fits over
> what is described in my spare parts book as the gearlever cover - that's
> the
> round metal shallow cup.
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> Can anyone confirm that I have been a drongo for quarter of a century and
> that it actually does fit over the gearlever cover??
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> Plus in a standard car, is there anything that holds the gearlever boot
> (gaiter) to the gearbox tunnel and therefore stops the entry of hot air.
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> Hoo Roo
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> Patrick Quinn
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> Sydney, Australia
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