14-07-2020, 08:41 AM
Larry,
I had the same problem with my Big Seven, and I too striped the box only to find that without the specialist tools
It was ny on impossible to reassemble without seeing little steel balls and springs disappearing all over the place.
So what to do. I put the gear cluster inside a polythene bag, and used a baked bean tin to hold the balls and springs in place whilst
sliding the cluster together, a lot easier said then done! Reassembled and reset the gearbox, and all seemed well, no sign of the balls and springs trying to escape, and all the gears engaged. Refitted gearbox, started engine, selected first gear; BANG!
back to square one! It seems that a gearbox under load behaves differently to one on the bench.
Plan "B" sent the whole lot to Andy Bird, result a perfect trouble free gearbox!
Some times I think its best left to "Those what know"
Just a thought.
J
I had the same problem with my Big Seven, and I too striped the box only to find that without the specialist tools
It was ny on impossible to reassemble without seeing little steel balls and springs disappearing all over the place.
So what to do. I put the gear cluster inside a polythene bag, and used a baked bean tin to hold the balls and springs in place whilst
sliding the cluster together, a lot easier said then done! Reassembled and reset the gearbox, and all seemed well, no sign of the balls and springs trying to escape, and all the gears engaged. Refitted gearbox, started engine, selected first gear; BANG!
back to square one! It seems that a gearbox under load behaves differently to one on the bench.
Plan "B" sent the whole lot to Andy Bird, result a perfect trouble free gearbox!
Some times I think its best left to "Those what know"
Just a thought.
J