26-09-2018, 02:31 AM
The difficulty of option 2, finding a better gearbox, locally is why I am persevering with this one for now. I need something to get the car finished and at least the engine running. At least then I can look at getting the car registered.
Our local spares guru kindly rang me for a chat and the solution they've used before is to face off the bush to make it square then with in in the box measure the endfloat (that's for the figures Chris, I would have asked that next) then remove the bush and put a suitable shim underneath it. Bob, that sounds like what you suggest.
The synchro cones didn't seem loose at all, just shifted. After heating it took quite a bit of force to push them back down. I did wonder about putting Loctite on them but I didn't want to remove them fully.
Simon
Our local spares guru kindly rang me for a chat and the solution they've used before is to face off the bush to make it square then with in in the box measure the endfloat (that's for the figures Chris, I would have asked that next) then remove the bush and put a suitable shim underneath it. Bob, that sounds like what you suggest.
The synchro cones didn't seem loose at all, just shifted. After heating it took quite a bit of force to push them back down. I did wonder about putting Loctite on them but I didn't want to remove them fully.
Simon