Lotus 5 speed gearbox-uprating-Victor Hollnagel
Posted: Mon Mar 23, 2009 5:19 pm
Dear All
After spending some time refurbishing my spare lotus 5 speed gearbox (and as it happens,first and second gear are now getting noisey) decided to uprate the box a little so dug out an article published in Club Lotus News a while ago and followed the instructions.....PLEASE NOTE....if you modify the selector shaft finger, as in the article,to take up any wear/play you will have great problems selecting reverse and fifth gears.
This is caused by the fact that 1st/2nd and 3rd/4th selector levers slide on bars wheras 5th/reverse PIVOTS around a fulcrum....the fact that the square headed selector finger fits snugly in the sliding selector cut-outs stops it doing its job in the third selector...
Hopes this saves other people money and time and effort trying to uprate the box only to find out that they are unable to select reverse and fifth....
John
After spending some time refurbishing my spare lotus 5 speed gearbox (and as it happens,first and second gear are now getting noisey) decided to uprate the box a little so dug out an article published in Club Lotus News a while ago and followed the instructions.....PLEASE NOTE....if you modify the selector shaft finger, as in the article,to take up any wear/play you will have great problems selecting reverse and fifth gears.
This is caused by the fact that 1st/2nd and 3rd/4th selector levers slide on bars wheras 5th/reverse PIVOTS around a fulcrum....the fact that the square headed selector finger fits snugly in the sliding selector cut-outs stops it doing its job in the third selector...
Hopes this saves other people money and time and effort trying to uprate the box only to find out that they are unable to select reverse and fifth....
John