This past winter my son replaced reverse gear on his '79 (I think) 1500.
It had been going "clunk...clunk...clunk" and then just refursed to
engage.
He opened the box and the reverse gear was all chewed up. Everything
else looked fine.
It now engages nicely but the 'clunk...clunk...clunk" is still there.
The clunks are loud and regularly space. When I told him it sounded
like a gear mismatch (the difference builds up until one of the jumps)
he said that Triumph had "improved" reverse and that the parts guy
(victoria I think) asked him a lot of questions but was "sure " he was
selling the right part.
The kid also said that it was obvious that the box had beenopened before
(why does the Previous Owner always have a tool kit consisting only of a
loose crescent wrench and a pair of slip joint pliers?). And if it was
the same twit that messed up the wiring there's no telling what he did
to the tranny.
Could I be right about the mismatch? Could the PO have only done half a
fix which was then perpetuated or reversed by the Victoria parts guy
(who either assumed no parts had been updated or that all of them had)?
How do we tell what's what? These parts aren't cheap or he'd just buy a
matched set of reverse and cluster gears and be done with it (if its a
mismatch problem).
Thanks Mike Tobin --------
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