Hi Daniel,
You can narrow down a whole bunch, which smooth case you have. First
off, if you have 8 smoothcase gearboxes, likely most of them are no good
because of a worn out first gear and matching laygear. This you can't
tell very well without disassembly of the gearbox.
Take off the side cover and look at the space between 2nd and 3rd gear on
the output shaft. Easy to identify those as they are gears with bevel
cut gears with only about 1/8 inch between them. The Sprite mk I and
Morris Minor box has a bronze thrust washer and the Sprite mk II has a
steel thrust washer between these gears. clean off the washers with
solvent and a cotton swab and scrape it to see what the washer is made
of. Bronze or steel. That simple.
Where would you be coming from for gearbox 101?!?!
Good luck,
Paul
PAsgeirsson@juno.com
On Mon, 25 Oct 1999 15:54:17 -0400 Daniel Thompson <dthompson@gbc.ca>
writes:
>Paul,
>
>I currently have eight smooth case gearboxes sitting in my garage. Any
>way
>to tell from the outside what they are. Any way to tell if you remove
>the
>side cover?
>
>Can I come down to your shop to attend "Gearbox restoration 101"? Of
>all the
>jobs in car restoration, rebuilding gearboxes scares me the most.
>
>Daniel58612
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Paul A Asgeirsson [SMTP:pasgeirsson@juno.com]
>> Sent: Monday, October 25, 1999 3:26 PM
>> To: Bkitterer@aol.com
>> Cc: spridgets@autox.team.net
>> Subject: Re: Dizzy problems and now a gearbox
>>
>> There are at least 7 different sets of gears
>> available for these two boxes and few of the parts are
>interchangeable!
>>
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