[TR] What's the next gearbox move????

[Jim Muller]

HELP!  Bill Gingerich has kindly offered to fax me some good 
instructions, but I thought I'd ask the Font Of Automotive Wisdom on 
this anyway.

I'm still stuck trying to disassemble my GT6 gearobx.  Got the 
layshaft out, but the cluster gear is still loose in the bottom of 
the case.  Got the input shaft out easily.  The next instruction says 
to drive the mainshaft backwards to push the rear bearing out, which 
will let the mainshaft tilt upward enough so that the gears will 
start coming off.  Did that.  Problem is, the gear at the back (1st?) 
contacts the case long before the bearing is free.  I removed the 
circlip which anchors the output shaft to the rear of the bearing, 
and managed to move the bearing a big further out (rearward) by 
moving it on the shaft as well as the case.  Moving this bearing is 
tedious and requires prying it on one side then the other, moving it 
mils at a time.  It still has 1/4 in to go.  But I see no other way 
to get the gears off the mainshaft.

I just finished off a bottle of Ipswich Stout, but it didn't help.  
Now what?  There must be a way.

Jim Muller
jimmuller at rcn.com