A. B. Bonds wrote:
>>>> .... IMHO, if you can rebuild a LBC engine you can rebuild a LBC
>>>> tranny.
>>>
>>> You ever done a TD? Generalizations can be dangerous.
>>
>> Nope ... but, I would have expected them to be very similar to the 'A'
>> and 'B' trannys ... assumptions can be dangerous too, eh?
>>
> You would be wrong in your expectation. A very different
> architecture. The synchro surfaces are swaged and riveted
> into the shifting hubs, so that the shifting hubs must be replaced in
> their entirety. The parts available these days (at least as of last
> year) do not fit out of the box. I had to use a considerable amount
> of machinist's blue and _lot_ of filing to get the hubs onto the
> mainshaft and sliding freely. Both the inner and outer
> splined surfaces of the first/second gear hub did not fit at
> all. The whole process took about 20 hours of fiddle and
> fit. I had to put the mainshaft in my lathe to insure
> the concentricity of the hubs. Not the sort of thing a shadetree
> mechanic has in his hip pocket.
Ouch ... looks like this shadetree mechanic will be shying away from
'TD' trannys for quite awhile ... ;^)
So ... lesson learned ... I should have stated ... IMHO, if you can rebuild
an 'A' or 'B' engine you can rebuild an 'A' or 'B' tranny ... fair enough?
Safety Fast! ... larry.g.unger@lmco.com
'61 MGA 1600 MkI
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