[Healeys] BN1 gearbox help

[Alan Seigrist]

Can you slide the lever off?  Maybe the slot in the pin is half moon
shaped?  Does the threaded end have part of the pin shaved off as if
the pin is tapered?  If not, the pin will have a half moon cut out,
which can't be removed without sliding the lever off... Thinking
outside the box here...

On 7/9/10, Carr&Edwards <scvc70 at epix.net> wrote:
> The pin must be tapered--one protruding end is threaded, with washer/nut
> (thus this must be the narrower end); the other protruding end is
> plain--obviously the wider end.   The nut must have been cranked up so
> tight, for so long, that the pin is well and truly stuck in the lever or in
> the groove in the shaft.  So far no amount of pressure on the end with the
> nut has dislodged the thing.  [The nut itself came off nicely, so we removed
> the washer and replaced the nut (to keep from damaging the threaded end of
> the pin), leaving a small space for the pin to move--or so we hoped....]
>
> We'll give the torch a few more tries.
>
>
> Sarah
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Alan Seigrist" <healey.nut at gmail.com>
> To: "Carr&Edwards" <scvc70 at epix.net>; <healeys at autox.team.net>
> Sent: Thursday, July 08, 2010 11:32 AM
> Subject: Re: [Healeys] BN1 gearbox help
>
>
>> Sarah -
>>
>> I think these pins may be wedge shaped.  Have you tried tapping from
>> the opposite direction?
>>
>> Alan
>>
>> On 7/8/10, Carr&Edwards <scvc70 at epix.net> wrote:
>>> We want to remove the side plate on a spare BN1 gearbox to check the
>>> condition
>>> of its internals.  According to the Workshop Manual, section F/3,
>>> "Dismantling
>>> the gearbox," to remove the lever from the shaft we merely "remove nut
>>> and
>>> washer, tap out the pin...."
>>>
>>> Hah!!!!  Nut and washer came right off; the pin has resisted tapping,
>>> whacking, pressure from a jury-rigged C-clamp/nut press, heating with a
>>> propane torch and then repeating all of the above.  What do we try
>>> next???
>>>
>>>
>>> Gratefully,
>>> Sarah Carr
>>> BN1 in [sweltering] PA
>
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