At 07:09 PM 10/26/98 -0800, Lawrie Alexander wrote:
>These 3-synchro boxes used brass synchro rings (early) and steel ones
(later). The gears are interchangeable, just to complicate the situation.
It sounds as though you have a mis-matched synchro/gear combination from
your description of the problem.
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>The gear with the shiny ramp uses the brass ring. The gear with a black,
kinda rough-looking ramp uses the steel ring. Are you sure the gearbox was
rebuilt by someone familiar with the difference?
Is that what that black stuff I sanded off was? Hey Lawrie. Does a 1275
Midget gearbox have the same two kinds of synchro parts available for 3rd
gear?
Barney Gaylord
1958 MGA with an attitude
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