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The Tranny is Together !!!!!!!!

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Happy Veterans Day and thanks to all you Vets out there!

Today a friend and I did the finish assembly on the transmission. All the gears except the input shaft and its gear were already in the box. We turned the box upside down and fiddled the lay gears into position. We then spent the next 10 min wiggling the lay shaft and the main shaft trying to get the lay shaftt to slide in. we could it in about 2 inches worth and it would stop. we kept jiggling and fiddling and all of a sudden, bummff and it was in, ready for the wedge lock plate.
I put the top cover on to check the operation and it seems to work fine.

Now it's mating the OD to the gearbox and then on to oil filling and testing.

One more step towards completion! Yea!
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Nice job.

Very smart to bolt to bench. I've seen grown men cry when weeks of work and waiting for parts have ended with a completed case rolling off a bench and hitting the floor.
 
Oooh, oooh.... I see a can of Kroil. My favorite penetrating oil - if you can stand the stench :laugh:

Oh, and congrats on a great looking gearbox assembly!
 
Scott, my favorite also. Pricey but works like a champ and the smell is the smell of parts coming apart.

Paul that thought crossed my mind as I was working on the OD, so it followed with the gear box. I definatly did/do not want to test its integrity by bouncing it off the floor!

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that is very exciting. i am gonna have some questions for you but until stuff is apart and for now best of luck with the test, no, drive. drivin
 
I see the thick flange and the raised bosses all around your bell-housing. That tells me it's from a TR which is later than your 1960 TR3A, so I assume it may have synchro in all 4 gears.

On the LHS of the gearbox, I can see the oil fill plug. But what is the other one for, or is that something on the later cars that was not on the TR3A gearboxes ?
 
Don Elliott said:
so I assume it may have synchro in all 4 gears.
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The raised, cylindrical bulge behind the fill plug is another sure sign that it's a later box with synchro on 1st. 1st gear is a slightly taller ratio, too.
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:]On the LHS of the gearbox, I can see the oil fill plug. But what is the other one for, or is that something on the later cars that was not on the TR3A gearboxes ? [/QUOTE]It's where the pivot for reverse gear sticks through the case. Not found on the earlier crash boxes, which used a sliding fork instead of the pivot.
 
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