[Fot] Spitfire Synchros

[John Hasty]

My experience is that the German ones are little better.... My close ratio Tr
box still scrapes if you try and shift with the speed that racing requires
going up in the box.  Not as bad going down.

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> On Aug 6, 2014, at 3:56 PM, "Spitfire Racing" <Spitfire_Racing at twcny.rr.com>
wrote:
>
> I have been using the synchros from Spitbits and never had a problem on
> Spitfires and GT-6s. I think you may be confusing these with the synchros
> for the big TR's, most of which are junk made by the big three in China.
> There is some hope as I have heard of some German sourced ones that are
both
> correct dimension and proper Rockwell hardness. Moss is selling these as a
> "premium" synchro as is I believe Rimmer Bros.
>
> Russ
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Fot [mailto:fot-bounces at autox.team.net] On Behalf Of Joe Guinan
> Sent: Wednesday, August 06, 2014 3:02 PM
> To: fot at autox.team.net
> Subject: [Fot] Spitfire Synchros
>
> Is the "Common Knowledge" that repro synchronizer rings are junk still
> current, or has anyone had success with new batches of these buggers?  A
> friend is having to rebuild a late single rail box because it refused to
> shift into 2nd gear, and so we thought we ought to at least check on what
is
> available.
>
> I have a couple spare single rail boxes laying around, so can probably
> mix-n-match what we find is needed, but it would sure be nice to not have
to
> tear down several transmissions to fix one.
>
> Joe Guinan
> Fremont, NE
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