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Below is a pic of the inside of the front cover from the OD gearbox - the one with the bronze bushed laygear instead of rollers.
In this closeup you can clearly see where the layshaft has spun and chewed out the cover at some stage.
It was suggested to me by Ross at Heritage that according to a mechanic they have the bushed laygear was a repair used when the rollers had really messed up the laygear. If the rollers had seized I dare say the laygear would have suffered significant damage and this is the probable explanation. IMO anyway.
In my "switch and swap" I replaced this with the cover from the box which had the rollers on the layshaft. It's on the gearbox so I can't show you a pic of a good one.
I mentioned Heritage earlier. Well I contacted them a week or so ago about the clutch kit and a few other bits and had been dealing with Ross from them. Anyway, after we came back from our trip away I rang them again to add a few things to the order and mentioned that I'd be down in the next few days to pickup the order and left it at that.
It transpired that we all went down yesterday to sort out Davids flat and finalise his move back home and I'd take the opportunity to go across to smithfield and get the clutch bits and see about some other stuff related to the switch and swap.
Horrendous weather yesterday, rain and flash flooding. Anyway got to Heritage and just about to get out of the car when my phone rang. It was Ross from Heritage ringing to see when I might be able to sort out about the order and checking what I wanted doing with it. Ha, I said Wow, you must be psychic, I just outside. We both laughed and I ran inside (pissing down) and he had all the stuff on the counter ready for me.
A bit of discussion about the clutch and then we compared the part numbers of the bits from a 3syncro and a 3syncro OD and found that the retainer and the circlip is the same but the spring is different. Great news! I added the spring and a new nylon bush to the order and discussed the lever. A new lever $155 + :
No thanks!
Anyway it appears that the levers may be interchangeable or close to it. Peter, from the forum answered this question here: Peters response
So that's what I'm looking at doing. Stay tuned!
In this closeup you can clearly see where the layshaft has spun and chewed out the cover at some stage.
It was suggested to me by Ross at Heritage that according to a mechanic they have the bushed laygear was a repair used when the rollers had really messed up the laygear. If the rollers had seized I dare say the laygear would have suffered significant damage and this is the probable explanation. IMO anyway.
In my "switch and swap" I replaced this with the cover from the box which had the rollers on the layshaft. It's on the gearbox so I can't show you a pic of a good one.
I mentioned Heritage earlier. Well I contacted them a week or so ago about the clutch kit and a few other bits and had been dealing with Ross from them. Anyway, after we came back from our trip away I rang them again to add a few things to the order and mentioned that I'd be down in the next few days to pickup the order and left it at that.
It transpired that we all went down yesterday to sort out Davids flat and finalise his move back home and I'd take the opportunity to go across to smithfield and get the clutch bits and see about some other stuff related to the switch and swap.
Horrendous weather yesterday, rain and flash flooding. Anyway got to Heritage and just about to get out of the car when my phone rang. It was Ross from Heritage ringing to see when I might be able to sort out about the order and checking what I wanted doing with it. Ha, I said Wow, you must be psychic, I just outside. We both laughed and I ran inside (pissing down) and he had all the stuff on the counter ready for me.
A bit of discussion about the clutch and then we compared the part numbers of the bits from a 3syncro and a 3syncro OD and found that the retainer and the circlip is the same but the spring is different. Great news! I added the spring and a new nylon bush to the order and discussed the lever. A new lever $155 + :
No thanks!Anyway it appears that the levers may be interchangeable or close to it. Peter, from the forum answered this question here: Peters response
So that's what I'm looking at doing. Stay tuned!
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