Hi Jeff
When you get your old top back have a look at it and see if it has the boss
cast on the top, if it does you could get the hole drilled and tapped to
suite a switch, not necessarily the correct one, possibly the type from a
single rail box as these have a smaller thread size and would probably be
easier to do.
Graham.
----- Original Message -----
From: Jeff McNeal <jmcneal@ohms.com>
To: <AH1962SP@aol.com>; <spitfires@autox.team.net>
Sent: Monday, March 13, 2000 3:10 AM
Subject: Re: Gearbox cover woes -- latest wrinkle
>
> WHA? HUH? HEYYYYYYYY! So, it's NOT JUST ME? In a perverse way, I'm
> really, REALLY glad to hear this. Let's me know that I'm not insane and
> that maybe, just maybe, it's a manufacturing spec tolerance thing. I
guess
> the top and cover must be perfectly matched or at least darn close?
>
> Like I said before, I feel like it's off just a few 1000ths of an inch or
> something. I could get first to work with the cover on, but had to adjust
> the position of the cover by that amount in order to get the bolts in and
> moving it just that tiny fraction caused 1st to lock up with reverse
again.
>
> The good news is that the lister who so generously swapped me the Mk3
cover
> for my Mk2 cover is sending my old cover back, PLUS an additional Mk3
cover
> that he has. I'll try the alternate Mk3 cover first and hope that it does
> the trick.
>
> I was telling Joe Curry off list that I have the feeling that I could
solve
> this problem if I could SLIGHTLY bend the reverse lever so that when the
> cover was on, the reverse gear would be pushed back just a fraction
farther
> into its pocket. However, I don't know if I can remove the lever without
> pulling the whole transmission and even if I could, the whole proposition
> sounds too risky on a few different levels and probably isn't worth
trying.
> I'll just hold out for a few days and hope that the other cover works, or
> that at least, I can get my original cover back on and just forego the
> reverse lamps for the time being. I loved having them work, but I love
> starting off a stop light or a busy intersection with first gear working
> even more...
>
> Cheers,
>
> Jeff in San Diego
> "You can't accuse me of being too forward"
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <AH1962SP@aol.com>
> To: <jmcneal@ohms.com>; <spitfires@autox.team.net>
> Sent: Sunday, March 12, 2000 6:58 PM
> Subject: Re: Gearbox cover woes -- latest wrinkle
>
>
> > Jeff you know it's funny i have two 1966 MKll's
> > and the cover's will not interchange same thing 1st gear would
> > stick I dont know why maybe wear??
> >
> >
> >
> > Bruce Cincinnati
> >
> > 1959 spriteMKl
> > 1962spriteMKll
> > 1968 spriteMKlV
> > 1966 triumph spitfireMKll
> >
>
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