[Healeys] BJ8 Gearbox Removal

[Bob Spidell]

Patrick,

The procedure is simple and essentially British:  bolster the gearbox and O/D and remove the car from around it.

Actually, I've done a BN2 and a BJ8, and they're basically the same.  For the BJ8, remove the seats, console and gearbox 
cover. Remove the starter, and I believe you have to remove the propshaft completely.  Unbolt and support the slave 
cylinder, rear mounts and the fansaver tierod.  Support the bellhousing and engine at the backplate, remove the bolts 
and you can pull the gearbox/OD rearward enough to free them, then lift both out of the car (in my youth I lifted them 
myself, but I'm older, weaker and wiser now and would need a hoist).

As always, replacement is the reverse of removal.

Bob


On 1/12/2014 4:26 PM, Patrick & Caroline Quinn wrote:
> G'day
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> I am about to do something that in 42 years of Austin-Healey ownership I
> have managed to avoid.
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> That's the removal of a BJ8 gearbox.
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> I have removed many a BN1 box and have lost count of the number of times I
> have removed and refitted the gearbox (100S + OD) in the BN3 and have even
> removed a gearbox in a real Healey, but never one from a BJ8.
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> Please tell me that apart from the console and other modern (?) stuff there
> isn't much of a difference?
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> Hoo Roo
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> Patrick Quinn
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> Blue Mountains, Australia
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