What have you done today with your Austin Seven

[jansens]

I took out the engine I put in the other day. Seems something is a bit off in the gearbox. It all worked on the bench fine but now in the car the 1/2 synchro seems stuck. Bit of grit in the works maybe? Took the engine out again, box off and I will strip it all down and clean it all up again. I did have to modify my remote gear lever. I had made it far too short so I have reworked it to give me more leverage. Perhaps when struggling with the short version I put something out of whack in the box? With my little lifting scaffold though I can get the engine in and out in no time.

Simon

Did you put in new balls and springs Simon? This can make selection very stiff to start with.

Yes, on both the synchros and on the selector rods too. The 2/3 one seems fine. Pretty still but workable. Trying to get into 1st definitely seems stuck. I managed to do it once using a brass drift and a rubber hammer and I can see all the balls are in there. Typical, when outside the box it's all to easy to move it too far and have balls fly everywhere but now in the box it won't move at all!

Simon

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This is the odd thing. The reverse selector now won't go back far enough for the swinging gate to clear it. If you screw back the selector rod the selector itself doesn't move any further back. So something it hitting it or fowling it? Or stopping the reverse idler gear from moving? I think this is related somehow to first gear being hard to select but I can't quite see how. With the selector out though the idler gear slides back and forth fine and you can get the reverse gears engaged no problem.

Something much have gotten bent as it definitely all worked before I put it on the car. I set it up carefully to ensure the synchro cones weren't dragging when not in gear and so on. I think somehow I have bent something? What though? The only thing I can imagine is the reverse selector fork?



Simon