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Re: gearboxes

To: <TIGEROOTES@aol.com>
Subject: Re: gearboxes
From: "lauri lehtinen" <lauri.lehtinen@pp.nic.fi>
Date: Wed, 15 May 2002 18:03:33 +0300
Thanks!
Have you any idea of the year when coarse splines changed to fine ones? Was
it when the new body was introduced? Was full synchro ever made with 1600
engine, or is it purely 1725cc's box?
(I must phone around the country to find a box rapidly, and I have to
identify them during my call).

Once again: This is info which is very slow to get without you and without
NET!
Thank you!

Larry


----- Original Message -----
From: <TIGEROOTES@aol.com>
To: <lauri.lehtinen@pp.nic.fi>
Sent: Wednesday, May 15, 2002 4:05 PM
Subject: Re: gearboxes


> Larry,
>     Early non-synchro-first gearboxes and later full synchro gearboxes are
> interchangeable, as long as you use their associated bell housings.  Both
> types are coarse-splined on their input and mainshafts, and your existing
> 10-spline clutch disc and driveline yoke will work fine.
>     Very late full-synchro units use a different 25 spline input shaft
> (different clutch disc) and a fine-splined mainshaft (different driveline
> yoke).
>     Early Minx / Rapier gearboxes may not have the oil filler plug on the
> side of their cases, as they were meant to be filled from above thru their
> top-loader covers.  Getting oil in, might pose a problem in an Alpine.
> Jim Leach   Pacific Tiger Club  Seattle

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