19-12-2024, 10:02 PM
Chris is correct, after removing the gearbox top a big hammer and bar put it back in neutral with the balls and springs flying everywhere, I then drained the gearbox and collected all the balls and springs and returned the oil to the box. The car park was at the bottom of a steep hill, the only way back, getting up which required balancing the amount of power versus my left hand holding it in gear. It was sometime before I had the box out and fixed it. That was in 1971, Peter Fearn suffered a similar failure going to Woolaton in 1991, and C Kingsford-Curram on the Alpine adventure in 1997.