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jlaird

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The tranny in Miss Agatha has the throwout arm and cylinder on the passanger side of course.

Now, why do I have another tranny that has the arm and cylinder on the drivers side. The inspection plate is on the passanger side as well.
 
Side cover is on passanger side, arm is on drivers side.
 
Morris Minor
---Wait--
Do you actually have a cylinder on that side too or just the yoke?
 
Is no cylinder there but that is where the holes are to mount it.
 
Could be an anti-tranny. Don't get it near your regular tranny cause it could cause an explosion that would destroy the whole universe.
 
Leave it to me to find a strange one.
 
Jack

I am curious what you find out.

Keep us posted.
 
I have no clue. It is for something strange to us.
 
The smoothcase and ribcase trannies have the mountings on both sides to be shifted right or left. That strange raised piece with two small threaded holes on either side of a non-threaded hole can be found on both sides of the trans as well. That is where the Morris or Austin mechanical clutch linkage transfer arm mounts. Like virtually everything about the cars from that era, it made for easy switching from left to right hand drive without changing many parts. I've converted ribcases to shift from right or left for the car's needs. You have to change the front cover on the transmission, but thats easy.

Glen
 
Glen

Then why didn't they do that for the cars exported to the US and not add all the extra plumbing?

Also I do not recall a grommet on the left side to get at the slave.

Maybe I am just thinking to much.

Pat
 
There are no holes on the drivers side for a clutch cylinder and the ones on the passanger side are not drilled and taped.
 
Jack, I am so glad you started this thread, as I too have a smooth-case I bought off ebay as a stand-by tranny (I have switched to a ribbed-case on my BE). Due to this thread I went out to check mine and it is also just as you describe...all backwards! In addition, the T/O bearing fork ends with a ring/loop on the end instead of a fork and clevis pin!! I will be watching this thread to see if someone can come up with an answer. In fact, I am going to take a couple of pix of mine and post them here to help with the ID! I also happened to have a spare ribbed-case handy, so I put them side by side for comparison. Jack, other than drilling, tapping and re-situating a couple or three mounting studs, it appears that a new front cover plate would enable switching sides, that and drilling and tapping holes to mount the slave!!
 

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Jack, on reflection, I dug out the original smooth-case tranny to look at the front coverplates and compare them. If you have one that came in a BE, then a simple switch (no stud modifications) can be done (see pix below...bolt pattern the same but fork pivot different!)!! All you would have to do is drill and tap mounting holes for the slave cylinder mount!!
 

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That's it Mike and I agree with all you said. But I bet this old sucker is well gone. One day I will open it up and see what's inside.
 
Mike in your pictures the shift fork is from a Morris Minor. The Morris had a mechanical (non-hyd) clutch. The Morris throw out arm came out on the opposite side than all spridgets. The Morris didn’t need drilled and tapped holes on the lugs because the other end of the mechanical arm attached via a fiber “ball socket” to the body via a shaft. The gearbox in the pictures is from a Morris Minor. If I’m missing something here from Jacks post I’m very sorry I can be a bit slow in comprehension.

Dug
 
Ahh, Morris Minor. Cool, I assume all the inards are the same.
 
:thankyousign: There you go Jack, we have the answer...It is a Morris Minor tranny!!
 
Jack the gears are the "same" just a little different in ratios. The shift lever and a few other things are also different. Glen B answered that it was a Morris box early on, I just figured I was missing something else in the question.
Dug
 
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