A nice surprise

[bcliff]

Last fall I bought a 71ish roadster that someone had started restoring. The body looks like he started with a BMH shell. It is clean and rust free. Engine and transmission were rebuilt, but all the other stuff that had been removed and lost due to failure to pay a storage bill. I happened to have a really good parts car. Lots of good stuff including overdrive and factory hard top. The restoration project seemed like a good deal at $750. I started to remove the engine/transmission last week so I can get the body a proper paintjob (I can't leave it white!). I hit a snag when I went to unbolt the transmission. It seems that a couple of the bolts are a little difficult to remove because of the OVERDRIVE! And I thought it was a straight 4 speed. Now I have one car and two overdrive transmissions. Some days it does pay to get up!
Now on to the paint shop to get it resprayed.
Bruce
I'll get the camera out and take a few pictures too.

 

[vping]

I love it when this happens.

 

[AngliaGT]

Bruce,

Let's see - you have 2,& I don't have any....
How about send one out here?
Sometimes Christmas comes early.

- Doug

 

[bcliff]

Actually, between my son and I, we now have two cars and three transmissions. As soon as we get both of ours installed and all is working well. I'm planning on bench testing the third to make sure everything is OK, then selling the surplus transmission, hopefully early summer.
Bruce

 

[Deleted member 8987]

As much as folks need those transmissions, if it's a good one, you'd be dollars ahead to keep it under the bench for when one fails in the running cars.

Except for the Jag and Exploder, I have spare transmissions for each of the other three vehicles.

Swap one in, spend time fixing the bad one when you can, then store it.

Dave

 

[bcliff]

But, isn't the MGB transmission bulletproof? Do I need a spare?

Bruce

 

[Steve_S]

They are very robust, and fully rebuildable should you ever break something or wear it out. If you can't be down for a week while it's rebuilt, or if you have lots of space and don't need the few hundred dollars that it's worth, then by all means it's great to have a spare. It just isn't one of those "gotta have one of these" kind of spares.