Hi Fred,
This must be a weakness in the box design because I have a Marina box in a
similar condition. It looks like the pin that secures the reverse gear fork
shears and the fork chews up the gear.
I would think it ought to be possible to find a cheap second hand box. Don't
know how well the Datsun box mates up to the 1500 but would think the 2
options are to convert to an overdrive Spit box or a Ford five speed - both
conversions undertaken by listers (maybe they have old parts gearboxes too?).
Daniel1312
In a message dated 01/06/03 20:59:00 GMT Daylight Time, fjohnson@oswego.net
writes:
>
> In the process of rebuilding my wife's 79 midget I popped open the gear box
> and found that the reverse idler was chewed up so I ordered a new clutch and
> pressure plate, throw out bearing and the reverse idler gear as well as a
> rebuild kit with. With what I hoped would be all the parts needed to do the
> job I disassembled the box to find that there was a lot of metal on the
> magnet and that the lay gear cluster is chewed up as is second bear. It
> appears that a repair was done once before and someone could not count
> teeth. Now I find that the lay gear cluster is not available and probably
> would be costly if it were. Now I would like comments in regard to do I
> continue to try and repair, replace with another gear box or convert. Ca
> the 1500 be converted to a Datsun? Thanks for the comments.
>
> Fred.
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