Jeff, sounds like a worn first/reverse slide gear and/or cluster gear.
You did not say if the noise in first was a grinding or thump sound.
Either way, sounds like a tranny rebuild is in your future unless you
stay on one way streets.
Clark Chilton
80 MGB LE - "Cibyl"
96 Border Collie/Black Lab - "Courtney"
Editors, Molecular Vision wrote:
>
> Hello all,
>
> I have a '64 Sprite Mk III with a 1275 substituted in by a PO. It likes to
> jump out of reverse. If I veeerrrry slowly release the clutch while keeping
> the revs pretty high it will stay in gear _sometimes_. With just a little
> patience I have been able to work around this, but slipping the clutch this
> much cannot be good for it. It does fine in other gears, though it's a
> little loud in first (normal for straight-cut gear?)
>
> I am a total newbie about LBCs. I don't know if the above is enough info
> for you to form an opinion, but if it is, I'd appreciate suggestions about
> what may be wrong, how to fix it, or whether I should just put up with it.
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Jeff
>
> Jeffrey H. Boatright, PhD '64 Sprite Mk III
> Editor-in-Chief, Molecular Vision '47 Cessna 140
> http://www.emory.edu/molvis '87 Plymouth Horizon
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