Re: 1940 Manual shift
Posted by Joe Santana On 2011/9/17 15:02:47
I opened the transmission per instructions, removing the cover plate in the floorboard. Disconnecting the forks from the linkage under the car. Taking out the bolts in the lid and wiggling the lid and forks out of the car.
The gears themselves look good to me, but I didn't rotate anything.
The interlock block looks like it has a problem. Is this the wire for attaching a Quality Assurance tag? Don't think so. Looks like the source of the problem is the spring with the balls on the ends.
From your photos, BDeB, it moved the forks so I could push the what was left of the spring and ball, and the solid cylinder and its mangled ball. Two of ball bearings look ok.
Am going to take to nearby auto supply places and see if they can replace these. I'm pretty sure these are the source of my gear sticking problems, wouldn't you?
I noticed that were 2 springs in here, and inner and an outer. Was this someone's creative solution to a faulty spring?
Brian, one of those articles says the balls wear down the shifter fork and the forks have to be replaced. The fork doesn't look that bad to me (compared to those balls!). Obviously the balls and spring needs replacement, but I wonder how much contact there was with that spring jammed in there like that. It's a wonder I could shift at all.
The last photo is of the fork that worked against the sprung spring. How does it look?
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The gears themselves look good to me, but I didn't rotate anything.
The interlock block looks like it has a problem. Is this the wire for attaching a Quality Assurance tag? Don't think so. Looks like the source of the problem is the spring with the balls on the ends.
From your photos, BDeB, it moved the forks so I could push the what was left of the spring and ball, and the solid cylinder and its mangled ball. Two of ball bearings look ok.
Am going to take to nearby auto supply places and see if they can replace these. I'm pretty sure these are the source of my gear sticking problems, wouldn't you?
I noticed that were 2 springs in here, and inner and an outer. Was this someone's creative solution to a faulty spring?
Brian, one of those articles says the balls wear down the shifter fork and the forks have to be replaced. The fork doesn't look that bad to me (compared to those balls!). Obviously the balls and spring needs replacement, but I wonder how much contact there was with that spring jammed in there like that. It's a wonder I could shift at all.
The last photo is of the fork that worked against the sprung spring. How does it look?
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