<html><body>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<br><br><div class="reply-new-signature"></div><p>-----------------------------------------</p>From: "Harold Manifold via Healeys" <healeys@autox.team.net><br>To: "Bob Spidell", "Healeys", "rfbegani@gmail.com"<br>Cc: <br>Sent: Monday October 18 2021 4:00:56PM<br>Subject: Re: [Healeys] Fwd: Healey Shift Stick<br><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Bob x 2,</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">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.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Harold</p>
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<a>Bob Spidell</a><br><b>Sent:</b> Monday, October 18, 2021 2:17 PM<br><b>To:</b> <a>Healeys</a><br><b>Subject:</b> [Healeys] Fwd: Healey Shift Stick</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">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>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18pt;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></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;">Thanks for your
help,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;">Bob
Begani</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> <a><span style="color:#0563C1;">rfbegani@gmail.com</span></a> <<a><span style="color:#0563C1;">rfbegani@gmail.com</span></a>><br><b>Sent:</b> Saturday, October 16, 2021 10:01 AM<br><b>To:</b> <a><span style="color:#0563C1;">healeys-bounces@autox.team.net</span></a><br><b>Subject:</b> FW: BJ8 4 speed transmission center shifter</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:20pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;">Listeners:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:20pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:20pt;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></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:20pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:20pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;">the thing
happened to me w/ my center shift BT7 MK2, except I was stuck
in</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:20pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;">reverse.
Very inconvenient Shift lever just flopped around, and
would not</span></p>
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anything.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:20pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;">The small bottom
"ball" of the shift lever had come out of its socket in
the</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:20pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;">remote shift rod
that goes into the top of the transmission.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:20pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:20pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;">you have a Moss
catalog, look at page 84, item #31. It is N/A, but
you</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:20pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;">can make
one. Pull off the console and the cover of the transmission.
If</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:20pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;">my problem is the
same as yours, one of the small "tits" on the end of the</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:20pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;">bolt that goes
into the side of the shift tower has broken off which
allows</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:20pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;">the shift lever
to go past its normal range and disengage from its
socket.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:20pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;">This "tit" fits
into a slot in the side of the big ball on the shift
lever,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:20pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;">controlling its
side-to-side motion. If the lever goes too far to one
side</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:20pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;">of the other, it
comes out of the socket and flops around.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:20pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;">Get a long bolt
w/ the same threads as the broken one, check the overall</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:20pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;">length, turn the
end down so it will fit into the slot, and you are done.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:20pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:20pt;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></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:20pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:20pt;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></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:20pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;">Let me know if
you have any suggestions,</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:20pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;">Regards,</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:20pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;">Bob
Begani</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:20pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;">BJ8 late
model</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> <a><span style="color:#0563C1;">rfbegani@gmail.com</span></a> <<a><span style="color:#0563C1;">rfbegani@gmail.com</span></a>><br><b>Sent:</b> Thursday, October 14, 2021 11:48 AM<br><b>To:</b> <a><span style="color:#0563C1;">healeys-bounces@autox.team.net</span></a><br><b>Subject:</b> BJ8 4 speed transmission center shifter</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:20pt;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></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:20pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:20pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;">Bob
Begani </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:20pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;">67 BJ8</span></p>
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