<div style="color:black;font: 10pt Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Later cars had 1/4 inch bolts with extended tips in place of the roll pins.<br>
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From: Harold Manifold via Healeys <healeys@autox.team.net><br>
To: Bob Spidell <bspidell@comcast.net>; Healeys <healeys@autox.team.net>; rfbegani@gmail.com <rfbegani@gmail.com><br>
Sent: Mon, Oct 18, 2021 6:56 pm<br>
Subject: Re: [Healeys] Fwd: Healey Shift Stick<br>
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<div class="yiv5548901467MsoNormal">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.</div>
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<div class="yiv5548901467MsoNormal" style="border:none;padding:0in;"><b>From: </b><a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:bspidell@comcast.net" target="_blank" href="mailto:bspidell@comcast.net">Bob Spidell</a><br clear="none"><b>Sent: </b>Monday, October 18, 2021 2:17 PM<br clear="none"><b>To: </b><a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:healeys@autox.team.net" target="_blank" href="mailto:healeys@autox.team.net">Healeys</a><br clear="none"><b>Subject: </b>[Healeys] Fwd: Healey Shift Stick</div>
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<div class="yiv5548901467MsoNormal">Forwarding to The List on behalf of Bob Begani:<br clear="none"><br clear="none">ps. Bob, check your email client for 'unread messages' or similar, List emails are arriving to me out of sequence.<br clear="none"><br clear="none"><br clear="none">-------- Forwarded Message -------- </div>
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<div class="yiv5548901467MsoNormal">Healey Shift Stick</div>
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<div class="yiv5548901467MsoNormal">Mon, 18 Oct 2021 17:05:36 -0400</div>
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<div class="yiv5548901467MsoNormal">Bob Begani <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:rfbegani@gmail.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:rfbegani@gmail.com"><rfbegani@gmail.com></a></div>
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<div class="yiv5548901467MsoNormal">Bob Spidell <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:bspidell@comcast.net" target="_blank" href="mailto:bspidell@comcast.net"><bspidell@comcast.net></a></div>
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<div class="yiv5548901467MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family: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></div>
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<div class="yiv5548901467MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:sans-serif;">Thanks for your help,</span></div>
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<div class="yiv5548901467MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:sans-serif;">Bob Begani</span></div>
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<div class="yiv5548901467MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:rfbegani@gmail.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:rfbegani@gmail.com"><span style="color:#0563C1;">rfbegani@gmail.com</span></a> <<a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:rfbegani@gmail.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:rfbegani@gmail.com"><span style="color:#0563C1;">rfbegani@gmail.com</span></a>> <br clear="none"><b>Sent:</b> Saturday, October 16, 2021 10:01 AM<br clear="none"><b>To:</b> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:healeys-bounces@autox.team.net" target="_blank" href="mailto:healeys-bounces@autox.team.net"><span style="color:#0563C1;">healeys-bounces@autox.team.net</span></a><br clear="none"><b>Subject:</b> FW: BJ8 4 speed transmission center shifter</div>
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<div class="yiv5548901467MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:20.0pt;font-family:sans-serif;">Listeners:</span></div>
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<div class="yiv5548901467MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:20.0pt;font-family: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></div>
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<div class="yiv5548901467MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:20.0pt;font-family:sans-serif;">the thing happened to me w/ my center shift BT7 MK2, except I was stuck in </span></div>
<div class="yiv5548901467MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:20.0pt;font-family:sans-serif;">reverse. Very inconvenient Shift lever just flopped around, and would not </span></div>
<div class="yiv5548901467MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:20.0pt;font-family:sans-serif;">engage anything.</span></div>
<div class="yiv5548901467MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:20.0pt;font-family:sans-serif;">The small bottom "ball" of the shift lever had come out of its socket in the </span></div>
<div class="yiv5548901467MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:20.0pt;font-family:sans-serif;">remote shift rod that goes into the top of the transmission.</span></div>
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<div class="yiv5548901467MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:20.0pt;font-family:sans-serif;">you have a Moss catalog, look at page 84, item #31. It is N/A, but you </span></div>
<div class="yiv5548901467MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:20.0pt;font-family:sans-serif;">can make one. Pull off the console and the cover of the transmission. If </span></div>
<div class="yiv5548901467MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:20.0pt;font-family:sans-serif;">my problem is the same as yours, one of the small "tits" on the end of the </span></div>
<div class="yiv5548901467MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:20.0pt;font-family:sans-serif;">bolt that goes into the side of the shift tower has broken off which allows </span></div>
<div class="yiv5548901467MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:20.0pt;font-family:sans-serif;">the shift lever to go past its normal range and disengage from its socket. </span></div>
<div class="yiv5548901467MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:20.0pt;font-family:sans-serif;">This "tit" fits into a slot in the side of the big ball on the shift lever, </span></div>
<div class="yiv5548901467MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:20.0pt;font-family:sans-serif;">controlling its side-to-side motion. If the lever goes too far to one side </span></div>
<div class="yiv5548901467MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:20.0pt;font-family:sans-serif;">of the other, it comes out of the socket and flops around.</span></div>
<div class="yiv5548901467MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:20.0pt;font-family:sans-serif;">Get a long bolt w/ the same threads as the broken one, check the overall </span></div>
<div class="yiv5548901467MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:20.0pt;font-family:sans-serif;">length, turn the end down so it will fit into the slot, and you are done.</span></div>
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<div class="yiv5548901467MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:20.0pt;font-family: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></div>
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<div class="yiv5548901467MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:20.0pt;font-family: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></div>
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<div class="yiv5548901467MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:20.0pt;font-family:sans-serif;">Let me know if you have any suggestions,</span></div>
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<div class="yiv5548901467MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:20.0pt;font-family:sans-serif;">Regards,</span></div>
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<div class="yiv5548901467MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:20.0pt;font-family:sans-serif;">Bob Begani</span></div>
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<div class="yiv5548901467MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:rfbegani@gmail.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:rfbegani@gmail.com"><span style="color:#0563C1;">rfbegani@gmail.com</span></a> <<a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:rfbegani@gmail.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:rfbegani@gmail.com"><span style="color:#0563C1;">rfbegani@gmail.com</span></a>> <br clear="none"><b>Sent:</b> Thursday, October 14, 2021 11:48 AM<br clear="none"><b>To:</b> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:healeys-bounces@autox.team.net" target="_blank" href="mailto:healeys-bounces@autox.team.net"><span style="color:#0563C1;">healeys-bounces@autox.team.net</span></a><br clear="none"><b>Subject:</b> BJ8 4 speed transmission center shifter</div>
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<div class="yiv5548901467MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:20.0pt;font-family: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></div>
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<div class="yiv5548901467MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:20.0pt;font-family:sans-serif;">67 BJ8</span></div>
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