[TR] Transmission internal pressure question

[Jim Muller]

On 2 May 2010 at 10:31, Mark Hooper wrote:

> Thanks for the replies. I have been all over the shift tower on
> my J-type and my A-type units. I do not see a vent hole.

When you guys get it straightened out (and perhaps you have already 
and I just don't have the brain cells left to comprehend), let me 
know.  My Spitfire's gearbox drips oil on the exhaust pipe and the 
culprit is oil collecting on the very top of the gearbox.  I ask 
myself how it gets up there.  The top plate has a vent, I think 
that's what it is, shielded on the inside of the box and with what 
looks like a slightly broken plastic plug.  If the shield is meant to 
keep oil from forcing its way up through that hole, it isn't working.

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