[Healeys] Fwd: Healey Shift Stick

[Bob Spidell]

Forwarding to The List on behalf of Bob Begani:

ps. Bob, check your email client for 'unread messages' or similar, List 
emails are arriving to me out of sequence.


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Subject: 	Healey Shift Stick
Date: 	Mon, 18 Oct 2021 17:05:36 -0400
From: 	Bob Begani <rfbegani at gmail.com>
To: 	Bob Spidell <bspidell at comcast.net>



It seems I am not able to send to the Healey Group so I am writing to 
you directly because you just wrote to Tom regarding trans shift problems.

Thanks for your help,

Bob Begani

*From:* rfbegani at gmail.com <mailto:rfbegani at gmail.com> 
<rfbegani at gmail.com <mailto:rfbegani at gmail.com>>
*Sent:* Saturday, October 16, 2021 10:01 AM
*To:* healeys-bounces at autox.team.net <mailto:healeys-bounces at autox.team.net>
*Subject:* FW: BJ8 4 speed transmission center shifter

Listeners:

I wrote the letter below to the Group with no response, so maybe it went 
astray.  Meanwhile, I researched the archives for information and found 
the following:

the thing happened to me w/ my center shift BT7 MK2, except I was stuck in

reverse. Very inconvenient   Shift lever just flopped around, and would not

engage anything.

The small bottom "ball" of the shift lever had come out of its socket in 
the

remote shift rod that goes into the top of the transmission.

you have a Moss catalog, look at page 84, item #31.  It is N/A, but you

can make one.  Pull off the console and the cover of the transmission. If

my problem is the same as yours, one of the small "tits" on the end of the

bolt that goes into the side of the shift tower has broken off which allows

the shift lever to go past its normal range and disengage from its socket.

This "tit" fits into a slot in the side of the big ball on the shift lever,

controlling its side-to-side motion.  If the lever goes too far to one side

of the other, it comes out of the socket and flops around.

Get a long bolt w/ the same threads as the broken one, check the overall

length, turn the end down so it will fit into the slot, and you are done.

So, I followed those instructions and found the tits were worn and no 
longer fitting into the groove in the ball. My friend the machinist was 
going to make new bolts, when we decided to remove the thick lock 
washers and screwed bolts into the groove of the ball.  With a little 
adjustment of the length of the bolt into the grove, we got the shifter 
to go through all the gears. My question to the Group, is this the 
finished product?  Or should we make new longer bolts. Does and one know 
the length, and so on?

As I looked on the Moss catalog, I noticed that there should have been a 
bushing at the bottom of the of the shift stick.  The  into socket the 
shift stick rides is not too worn, so I am hoping that a new bush and 
circle clip, bearing grease assembly and so on will get me back on the 
road.

Let me know if you have any suggestions,

Regards,

Bob Begani

BJ8 late model

*From:* rfbegani at gmail.com <mailto:rfbegani at gmail.com> 
<rfbegani at gmail.com <mailto:rfbegani at gmail.com>>
*Sent:* Thursday, October 14, 2021 11:48 AM
*To:* healeys-bounces at autox.team.net <mailto:healeys-bounces at autox.team.net>
*Subject:* BJ8 4 speed transmission center shifter

I backed the Healey out of the garage into the street, shifted into 
first to straight out, into neutral and moved the shifter to the left 
and noticed it when all the way left and that it is loose.  The trans is 
locked in reverse.  When the engine is off the shifter is sloppy.  So, 
before I remove the shift stick from the trans,  What should I do?

Bob Begani

67 BJ8

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