Unfortunately the 1500 can not use the Datsun box. It can use the Ford
T-5 (Mercury Merkur) 5 speed box. You can get a tranny and kit from
Quantum Mechanics in Connecticut or Frontline Spridget in the UK. There
is also an outfit in CA, but I don't recall the name. The CA company
that is the obvious source (no not Moss, but I can't recall their name)
dropped the Ford box as they didn't sell a lot.
Larry
On Sunday, June 1, 2003, at 04:00 PM, Fred W. Johnson wrote:
> 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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