[Healeys] Fwd: Healey Shift Stick

[gradea1 at charter.net]

A small, but important point. Be sure to use the correct item #116-the
bushing for the shifter. The earlier cars used a brass bush, and the
BJs used a plastic one. They are not interchangeable. Hank

	-----------------------------------------From: "Harold Manifold via
Healeys" 
To: "Bob Spidell", "Healeys", "rfbegani at gmail.com"
Cc: 
Sent: Monday October 18 2021 4:00:56PM
Subject: Re: [Healeys] Fwd: Healey Shift Stick

	Bob x 2, 

	The gear shift is not held in place by bolts it is held in place with
two roll pins on each side. The roll pins I have measure 0.1755”
diameter x 0.59” long. The pins are removed by driving them into the
round part of the gear shift lever. BMC part number is AEA558, item
#118 on the attached. I just happened to remove a gear shift a couple
of days ago. 

	Harold 

	FROM: Bob Spidell
SENT: Monday, October 18, 2021 2:17 PM
TO: Healeys
SUBJECT: [Healeys] Fwd: Healey Shift Stick  

	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   

	 TO:   

	Bob Spidell   

	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 
SENT: Saturday, October 16, 2021 10:01 AM
TO: 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 
SENT: Thursday, October 14, 2021 11:48 AM
TO: 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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