| Steve,  Are you sure that the shop contacted us. We have all the  
sliding hubs available new in stock and we also have all the cluster  
gears in stock. Give me a call with the number off you cluster gear  
and we can get one out for you.
David Nock
British Car Specialists
Stockton Ca 95205
209-948-8767
www.britishcarspecialists.com
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On Sep 24, 2008, at 7:17 PM, stevesylvia2 wrote:
> First off, thank you all for responding to me question regarding  
> estimates
> for my extra transmission I sent on 9/20 but now that's all out the  
> window.
> My mechanic I'm dealing with, who has business for 30 plus years,  
> opened up
> the gear box of my original transmission and discovered that the  
> teeth of
> first gear had been chewed off, like somebody downshifted into  
> first at a
> high rate of speed according to him.  When he checked my extra  
> transmission,
> he said that it was in pretty bad shape too.  He told me that for  
> starters
> the cluster gear (or lay gear) as well as the first gear sliding  
> hub need
> replacing.  He has contacted everyone he can think of including his  
> contacts
> in England as well as Norman Nock and can't find replacements.  I  
> really
> don't want to go to the Toyota conversion as I've put a lot of time  
> and
> effort to stay as original as possible over the last two and a half  
> years.
> Does anyone have any suggestions who I can contact for replacement  
> parts?
> Unless I'm the only one who has ever had this problem, there's got  
> to be
> someone out there that has these parts.  Any help would be greatly
> appreciated and would lead to putting another Healey back on the road.
>
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Steve Meyer
>
> '61 BN7
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