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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-GB link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>I’ve got a MkII BT7 so was a bit surprised to find the plastic insert. Or is it nylon? AHSpares showed the brass one which I then assumed was an improved version. Somehow I avoided that particular pitfall, having found enough with my clutch. I did however – quite inexplicably - find the correct one in one of my “boxes of bits”. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>The answer to the apparent conundrum? My gearbox is gold in colour which leads me to believe it’s a BMC “Gold Seal” replacement. I’d thought they only did engines. However, they seem to have done at least one gearbox. I’ve not had to delve far enough into the gearbox to determine if it’s primarily MkII or III. It has the roll pins referred to today. Not the bolts. God, getting that circlip and washer in on top of that spring was a game and a half!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>Simon<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US> Healeys <healeys-bounces@autox.team.net> <b>On Behalf Of </b>Henry G Leach via Healeys<br><b>Sent:</b> 19 October 2021 03:14<br><b>To:</b> 'Harold Manifold' <manifold@telus.net><br><b>Cc:</b> 'healeys@autox.team.net' <healeys@autox.team.net><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Healeys] Fwd: Healey Shift Stick<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>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<o:p></o:p></p><p>-----------------------------------------<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>From: "Harold Manifold via Healeys" <br>To: "Bob Spidell", "Healeys", "<a href="mailto:rfbegani@gmail.com">rfbegani@gmail.com</a>"<br>Cc: <br>Sent: Monday October 18 2021 4:00:56PM<br>Subject: Re: [Healeys] Fwd: Healey Shift Stick<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>Bob x 2,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>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.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>Harold<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b>From:</b> Bob Spidell<br><b>Sent:</b> Monday, October 18, 2021 2:17 PM<br><b>To:</b> Healeys<br><b>Subject:</b> [Healeys] Fwd: Healey Shift Stick<o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>Forwarding to The List on behalf of Bob Begani:<br><br>ps. Bob, check your email client for 'unread messages' or similar, List emails are arriving to me out of sequence.<br><br><br>-------- Forwarded Message --------<o:p></o:p></p><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0><tr><td nowrap valign=top style='padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal align=right style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-align:right'><b>Subject:</b><o:p></o:p></p></td><td style='padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>Healey Shift Stick<o:p></o:p></p></td></tr><tr><td nowrap valign=top style='padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal align=right style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-align:right'><b>Date:</b><o:p></o:p></p></td><td style='padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>Mon, 18 Oct 2021 17:05:36 -0400<o:p></o:p></p></td></tr><tr><td nowrap valign=top style='padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal align=right style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-align:right'><b>From:</b><o:p></o:p></p></td><td style='padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>Bob Begani <<a href="mailto:rfbegani@gmail.com">rfbegani@gmail.com</a>><o:p></o:p></p></td></tr><tr><td nowrap valign=top style='padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal align=right style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-align:right'><b>To:</b><o:p></o:p></p></td><td style='padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>Bob Spidell <<a href="mailto:bspidell@comcast.net">bspidell@comcast.net</a>><o:p></o:p></p></td></tr></table><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:12.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>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. </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>Thanks for your help,</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>Bob Begani</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b>From:</b> <span style='color:#0563C1'><a href="mailto:rfbegani@gmail.com">rfbegani@gmail.com</a></span> <<span style='color:#0563C1'><a href="mailto:rfbegani@gmail.com">rfbegani@gmail.com</a></span>><br><b>Sent:</b> Saturday, October 16, 2021 10:01 AM<br><b>To:</b> <span style='color:#0563C1'><a href="mailto:healeys-bounces@autox.team.net">healeys-bounces@autox.team.net</a></span><br><b>Subject:</b> FW: BJ8 4 speed transmission center shifter<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:20.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>Listeners:</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:20.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:20.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>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:</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:20.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:20.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>the thing happened to me w/ my center shift BT7 MK2, except I was stuck in</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:20.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>reverse. Very inconvenient Shift lever just flopped around, and would not</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:20.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>engage anything.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:20.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>The small bottom "ball" of the shift lever had come out of its socket in the</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:20.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>remote shift rod that goes into the top of the transmission.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:20.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:20.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>you have a Moss catalog, look at page 84, item #31. It is N/A, but you</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:20.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>can make one. Pull off the console and the cover of the transmission. If</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:20.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>my problem is the same as yours, one of the small "tits" on the end of the</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:20.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>bolt that goes into the side of the shift tower has broken off which allows</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:20.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>the shift lever to go past its normal range and disengage from its socket.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:20.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>This "tit" fits into a slot in the side of the big ball on the shift lever,</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:20.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>controlling its side-to-side motion. If the lever goes too far to one side</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:20.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>of the other, it comes out of the socket and flops around.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:20.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>Get a long bolt w/ the same threads as the broken one, check the overall</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:20.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>length, turn the end down so it will fit into the slot, and you are done.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:20.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:20.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>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?</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:20.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:20.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>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. </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:20.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:20.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>Let me know if you have any suggestions,</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:20.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:20.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>Regards,</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:20.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:20.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>Bob Begani</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:20.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>BJ8 late model</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:20.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b>From:</b> <span style='color:#0563C1'><a href="mailto:rfbegani@gmail.com">rfbegani@gmail.com</a></span> <<span style='color:#0563C1'><a href="mailto:rfbegani@gmail.com">rfbegani@gmail.com</a></span>><br><b>Sent:</b> Thursday, October 14, 2021 11:48 AM<br><b>To:</b> <span style='color:#0563C1'><a href="mailto:healeys-bounces@autox.team.net">healeys-bounces@autox.team.net</a></span><br><b>Subject:</b> BJ8 4 speed transmission center shifter<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:20.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>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?</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:20.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:20.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:20.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>Bob Begani </span><o:p></o:p></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:20.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>67 BJ8</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p></div></div></body></html>