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1500 gearbox seals/scroll

To: adrian@icx.net, spitfires@autox.team.net
Subject: 1500 gearbox seals/scroll
From: Cwn74@aol.com
Date: Sat, 30 Jan 1999 15:31:59 EST
Don't believe everything you read in a Haynes manual, especially when they
pertain to the years 1961-1981!

The Moss catalog MGL7200 that I picked up at Gaycon shows a cover, front seal
scroll type and a front cover oil seal type. Page 25, Esternal Gearbox 1500
single rail page.  So perhaps you have the scroll type (rifled slinger).  I
thought they went out with the 4-speed synchro boxes!

It turns out that transition was at comm # UKC7933 (From gearbox FR33415).

You can probably get the oil seal item and install it.... or newer
bellhousing...

Clark

Let me know...

In a message dated 1/30/99 7:02:48 AM Pacific Standard Time, adrian@icx.net
writes:

> 
>  Even the Haynes manual shows an oil flinger behind the bearings, and then 
> the
>  bellhousing has grooves in it that look like threads, which I assume are to
> throw
>  oil back into the gearbox.  My bellhousing did not have any seals between 
> the
>  gearbox and the housing, but only a gasket.  I am going to order the seal 
> and see
>  if it works.  I think part of the problem was that it slipped when I was
>  installing it and went vertical (with fluid inside it).  Hopefully putting 
> in a
>  seal will help.  Any ideas?  Thanks!
>  
>  adrian
>  
>  Cwn74@aol.com wrote:
>  
>  > The slinger was used in the early non-synchro units of the 60's
>  > Yours should have a seal in the bell housing, unless you fitted an early
>  > bellhousing...
>  > Let me know...
>  > Clark
>  >

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