Tony I had the same problem at the track, removed top cover and one of the
screws came out, and luckily it went to bottom and I was able to get it with a
magnet.
Thanks
Mike
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From: Fot <fot-bounces@autox.team.net> On Behalf Of yellow04 via Fot
Sent: Friday, August 16, 2024 6:19 AM
To: Tony Drews <tony@tonydrews.com>
Cc: Amici Triumphi <fot@autox.team.net>
Subject: Re: [Fot] TR-4/6 trans top cover advice (won't go into 3rd gear)
Tony,
I have been into many top covers, they really only have one fiddly bit, the
interlock. Consists of two balls and one dowel. You need to reassemble in the
right order to get it back together, but once you have done that once it's
pretty easy. You can see the cavity on the outer rails (that's the reverse rail
and the 1st/2nd rail) where the balls live, when everything is cleaned up and
ready to go back together I apply a dab of grease to the cavity with a long
screwdriver, hold the top cover on its side and roll the ball down the bore
until it drops in the cavity. Using the long screwdriver you press the ball
home in the grease/cavity, then slide the rail home assembling the shifter fork
and spacer as you offer it home. Then repeat with the other outer rail.
Finally, the center rail (for 3/4) has a drilling for the dowel pin.
Grease it up, slide the pin into the rail, and install. The outer forks must be
in the neutral position to get it to slide home. The Buckeye Triumph writeup on
gearbox overhaul includes the top cover, worthy of a quick read before jumping
in for sure.
The other tough part is getting the three tiny square headed tapered screws out
of the shifter fork/rail, after too many years I finally broke down and bought
a proper 8 point socket, made life much easier on that front. Be forewarned, a
failure point on these gearboxes after overhauling a top cover is those tapered
screws do tend to back out and fall into the soup, I highly recommend drilling
the screw head for safety wire, and drilling the adjacent web on each fork to
anchor the safety wire. I lost one on track in the TR250, I got lucky and it
dropped down to the bottom of the gearbox without fouling any gears and I
simply retrieved it with a magnet, reinstalled, and was back in business. On
the race car, it was slightly inconvenient and caused a DNF for that session,
in a street car it is a huge pain in the ass because you are pulling the
interior to get the top cover off!
The only other thing that I can think of that might trip you up is if you have
a top cover from a later TR6 that has never been apart, in a cost savings
measure the Triumph decided they didn't need to supply threaded screwcap access
to the fork detent spring and plungers, they simply used press in plugs. Not at
all difficult to remove the press in plugs, but you will need to tap the bores
you pulled the press in plugs from and source the screwcaps from an earlier
gearbox to reassemble.
As to the possibility of your top cover causing the issue of not being able to
engage third, if the tapered screw is tight so the fork is properly fixed to
the rail, and the shifter feels OK with rowing through the gears with the top
cover removed, the only think I can think of would be a bent shifter fork. I
can't tell if a fork is bent by looking at it, the only telltale is the fingers
that slide into the shifter hub will be worn.
Feel free to give me a jingle is you have questions.
Cheers
Henry Frye
On 2024-08-15 19:44, Tony Drews via Fot wrote:
> At my last race, I felt entry to 3rd gear have some resistance, then
> the resistance went away, but near the end of the weekend something
> happened that prevents me from shifting into 3rd gear. I can shift
> into all of the other gears just fine. Didn't feel like a internal
> gearbox issue (I certainly hope not, I just replaced all the quaiffe
> goodies in there). I've never taken the top cover apart / had to fix
> that. It does still have the overdrive switches in the top of it even
> though I'm no longer running the OD.
>
> So... I'm planning to remove the tranny top cover this weekend and see
> what's going on. I probably have a spare from an unknown quantity
> transmission from my Dad's stash, but I'd like to fix the existing one
> if possible. For those who have done it, how fiddly of a job is it to
> take that stuff apart? Any ideas what would keep it from shifting to
> 3rd? I have noticed increased resistance on the 3/4 shift rail since
> my rebuild earlier this year (but didn't have time to look into it at
> the time).
>
> Looking for words of wisdom from those who have been there / done that.
>
> In other news I have some pretty epic videos from last weekend's race
> at Grattan coming. Here's a appetizer from the "Genius Garage
> Invitational": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_LWlZIFA_gg
>
> All the best, Tony Drews
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