[TR] Spitfire Transmission Conversion

[Joe Curry]

Don't forget the Main Shaft in the transmission must also be changed.  So if
you go to all that trouble, it is about six of one and half dozen of the
other.

Joe C.

-----Original Message-----
From: triumphs-bounces+spitlist=cox.net at autox.team.net
[mailto:triumphs-bounces+spitlist=cox.net at autox.team.net] On Behalf Of Jim
Muller
Sent: Sunday, May 04, 2008 12:20 PM
To: triumphs at autox.team.net
Subject: Re: [TR] Spitfire Transmission Conversion

On 4 May 2008 at 10:38, Geo & Kathleen Hahn wrote:

>   Is the best route to add the OD to my good tranny or take the guts of my
> good tranny and put them in the OD gearbox housing?
> 
>   I assume the output shaft is the item that must be changed.

A few other things must be changed as well.  The driveshaft is 
shorter.  The rear engine mount goes on a horizontal plate that fits 
tranversely across the frame members; when people pull an OD tranny 
out of a car this plate is typically forgotten because they don't 
realize it is different.  The speedometer drive is different too, I 
believe.  And the shift knob, of course.

-- 
Jim Muller
jimmuller at rcn.com
'80 Spitfire, '70 GT6+
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