TOBYOLIVIA
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Hi All.
Having great fun returning our 1969 500F back to full 'zero miles' status.
Rebuilt engine. Perfect.
Rebuilt gearbox and all seemed good on the bench.
New gearbox mountings (others were totally gone).
Having trouble selecting all of the gears all of the time when installed into car.
1,2,3 is the current selection and sometimes reverse... We tweak the coupling (that is new), then get reverse and some other gears but never all at the same time..! 4th is still a problem however we tweak things.
Tweaked the adjuster towards the front at base of gear stick, but no joy to get all gears at same time.
Might it be the bush at the base of the gear shift? Do I buy a new gear linkage seeing as though all else is new and 'tight' and the next weakest link is the oldest thing?
Or...do I put another spare gearbox in that I have kicking around in the workshop!
Something else?
Sorry for the questions, but there were three of us on it today (two v knowledgable) for 3 hours and got nowhere so I limped it home with three gears.
Thanks guys!
Having great fun returning our 1969 500F back to full 'zero miles' status.
Rebuilt engine. Perfect.
Rebuilt gearbox and all seemed good on the bench.
New gearbox mountings (others were totally gone).
Having trouble selecting all of the gears all of the time when installed into car.
1,2,3 is the current selection and sometimes reverse... We tweak the coupling (that is new), then get reverse and some other gears but never all at the same time..! 4th is still a problem however we tweak things.
Tweaked the adjuster towards the front at base of gear stick, but no joy to get all gears at same time.
Might it be the bush at the base of the gear shift? Do I buy a new gear linkage seeing as though all else is new and 'tight' and the next weakest link is the oldest thing?
Or...do I put another spare gearbox in that I have kicking around in the workshop!
Something else?
Sorry for the questions, but there were three of us on it today (two v knowledgable) for 3 hours and got nowhere so I limped it home with three gears.
Thanks guys!