John V

Pics should be back up. If someone can explain how to upload them here, I'll give it a shot otherwise, my pic hosting account goes dormant if I don't access it every 30 days.

BC

Thanks John. Thats the way I did the spring.

I am still working on the backlash. I thought it said .76, but its actually .16.

Vilhuer

John's pics, part 1.

Vilhuer

John's pics, part 2.

Vilhuer

John's pics, part 3.

rock2001

Sorry to drag this thread back up, but I was trying to duplicate your spring procedure to allow the transmission to center on the 2-3 gate. My bends are not as nice as yours, but for now it seems to work. I'm happy with it right now, although I hope it stays on.

However, when I put everything back together, I found a separate issue. The shifter didn't want to rotate into the 1-R gate. The "U-spring" seems to be catching the vertical tab on the shift finger. Based on your pics it looks the same. The vertical tab has an indent that the U-spring sits in, but to move into 1-R it has to push it's way out of the tab. Did you have any problems with this?

I just put a shim between the U-Spring and the front of the shift finger to separate them so that the spring doesn't sit in the indent, and it looks good now. But was this a bad idea? I don't see anything else wrong, but it didn't seem like a problem when I took it apart.

Thanks

a4sfed928

I think it is because the indent is in the verticle part to increase the resistance to enter reverse and if I followed your post you have defeated this.

BC

I drilled an additional hole in the main selector shaft so that the spring would not move too much, and put another one of those roll studs in.

rock2001

Yes, I guess I essentially disabled that R-1 mechanism. It just felt like it was way too hard to get into that gate, by hand anyways. Maybe it would feel better in the car, but the spring should be good enough to keep me away from that gate when needed.

Ahhh, another pin for the spring. I like it. I'll have to be careful drilling that out now that everything is back together.

Landseer

Epic Thread.

Shame that rennlist didn't save John's pictures along with his narrative.

(Though they where thoughtfully reposted at post # 123)