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Re: Gearbox guru question

To: humbersnipe <humbersnipe@cox.net>
Subject: Re: Gearbox guru question
From: Jan Servaites <jservaites@woh.rr.com>
Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2005 16:41:55 -0800
humbersnipe wrote:

>        OK, listers, here's the scoop - hopefully someone has tried this
>before, and also, hopefully, succeeded!
>
>        I'm trying to put together a column-shifted, non-synchro first gear
>overdrive gearbox for my '58 Minx convertible. I've got a spare Minx gearbox,
>and a non-synchro o/d box from an early Alpine. The problem is, the top covers
>won't swap - the column shift box has 8 holes, and the Alpine 'box has 6.
>  
>
You need a series I housing, you have the later non-sync.

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