[Healeys] tranny installation--BJ8

Tom Felts tomfelts at windstream.net
Tue Sep 21 19:48:13 MDT 2021


IT IS IN!! thank all for your comments.  Thete is a little trick that I learned to speed the process.  I'll pass this on later
 Tired and going to bed 
----- Original Message -----
From: Bob Spidell <bspidell at comcast.net>
To: healeys at autox.team.net
Sent: Tue, 21 Sep 2021 17:34:16 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: Re: [Healeys] tranny installation--BJ8

I've done this a few times;  IIRC it always takes a bit of fiddling to 
get them to mate up. How far out is it; an inch or so the first motion 
shaft is probably butting-up against the spigot bearing, any more and 
you might be facing the same issue Simon said he had?

On 9/21/2021 2:18 PM, richard mayor via Healeys wrote:
> Can you be more specific?   Not sure why you even have the shifter 
> still attached.  It can poke you in the eye. You just need to make 
> sure the tranny is in one of the gears so you can rotate the output 
> shaft if necessary to make the input shaft splines mate with the 
> clutch splines.
>
> On Tue, Sep 21, 2021 at 1:11 PM Tom Felts via Healeys 
> <healeys at autox.team.net <mailto:healeys at autox.team.net>> wrote:
>
>     Try as two of us can, we could not get the tranny back in the car.
>     Is there a specific position it has to be to mate?  I heard the
>     shifter at about the 10 oclock position but that didn't seem to work.
>
>
>
>     tom
>




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