Re: [Healeys] Advice------BJ8 shift lever spring circlip installation

[Bob Spidell <bspidell@comcast.net>]

I remember this task being a PITA, but only a couple-dozen swear words' worth.

IIRC, the problem isn't the circlip so much as the spring.  Since you're not 
having any luck just jamming it in, maybe 
you could compress the spring in a vice and bind it with a couple tie-wraps.  
Then, you should be able to work the 
circlip in in the usual fashion; i.e. working it in starting at one end.   When 
you have the clip in cut the tie-wraps.

Haven't tried this, but in theory it should work.

Bob


On 9/3/2012 6:14 PM, Tom Felts wrote:
> I have tried every trick I know--said a million swear words and still I 
> cannot get this circlip over the spring for the shift lever.
>
> Does anyone have any tricks or methods to get this thing back in the groove?
>
> thanks
> tom
>
>
>


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