Douglas,
1. Moss might give you a couple of inches of piping if you asked.
Original piping was the color of original paint. If you could not get a
satisfactory match with the available green, you might get better results
by painting available black instead of painting the creme-colored piping.
2. Keep asking this question; others may know better than I. My
recollection from having a gearbox open a long time ago was that the
bushing appeared to be an ordinary looking bushing. Instrument repair
shops (Nisonger and Moma) might have the bushing, or you could have
someone you know with a lathe turn one for you. The grease? I could
not find reference in the handbook to a grease for this gearbox. My
thought is that the grease doesn't really matter, as long as some is
there. I've used multipurpose chassis grease for 50 years and it seems
OK. Castrol NLGI 2 seems to be a light-viscosity multipurpose grease
that MG shops in this area use as general-purpose grease. Nice green
color, and cheap. At WalMart.
3. I don't know specific details of the springs and washers on the
pawl shaft. If these are the ones concealed inside the handle, whatever
works would be fine, so checking through the boxes of springs at a
hardware store should get something that will do the job.
Bob
On Wed, 12 Oct 2005 14:21:08 +1300 "Douglas Ormrod"
<Douglas.Ormrod@neurological.org.nz> writes:
> Couple or three disparate questions
>
> 1. I have painted my TD Almond Green - not correct for my year, but
> I
> prefer it to the darker BRG green which was the original colour.
> Upholstery is beige. I was wondering what wing piping I should use.
> Does
> anyone have a car this colour? I assume the green piping Moss sells
> is
> to match the darker green. So I guess my options are to use black,
> or
> get cream and try and paint it with spray paint to match - anyone
> done
> this? Is black acceptable?
>
> 2. I have stripped down my tach drive gearbox. Gears seem fine but
> the
> thin bushing in one side that the gear shaft runs in is worn. Moss
> does
> not seem to sell bushes for the tach gearbox. Can I just use some
> thin
> shim? What grease or oil should it be packed with?
>
> 3. I need the spring and bushes/washers that fit over the end of the
> handbrake pawl shaft. Moss don't have these - anyone know where I
> can
> get them?
>
> That's enough for one day.
>
> Cheers
>
> Douglas
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