Odd-ball gearbox?
Posted: Mon Aug 22, 2022 10:42 pm
Just got my gearbox back from Miles Wilkins, for bearing changes that I didn't have time to do, and he claimed that he and Ian had never seen one with that type of rear mounting casting. The stack of bits connecting it to the chassis looks like a bodge. Does anyone have an explanation or a similar box and bits?
The bracket in the 2nd photo has been ground down in places, isn't the same width as the rubber and the bolt is welded in. A plain nut holds it in the rubber of the later type (I think) mount and the bolt end is within millimeters of touching the chassis mounting bracket. This bracket has had some top flanges crudely ground off and extra holes drilled to take the wider rubber part.
Things seemed a bit odd last year when I replaced the failed rubber but I had only had the box out once before, 30 years ago when I rebuilt it, and Miles and Ian had changed the chassis the year before that without noticing anything odd.
The bracket in the 2nd photo has been ground down in places, isn't the same width as the rubber and the bolt is welded in. A plain nut holds it in the rubber of the later type (I think) mount and the bolt end is within millimeters of touching the chassis mounting bracket. This bracket has had some top flanges crudely ground off and extra holes drilled to take the wider rubber part.
Things seemed a bit odd last year when I replaced the failed rubber but I had only had the box out once before, 30 years ago when I rebuilt it, and Miles and Ian had changed the chassis the year before that without noticing anything odd.