Morris Minor Owners Club

Hi everybody,

While enjoying morry to the max (new owner since January and running since 2,5 month after extensive rebuild) the above problems starts to be enoying;

Jumping out of second gear, but definitely not while (hard) accelerate of deceleration, just when 'keeping a slow speed in 2nd' kind of moments....

For the rest, a very silent, smooth gearbox.

Oil changed recently, and it's a ribcase gearbox with a 1098 engine, all original.
any thoughts would be welcome !!

The sooner you strip it and fix it - the less damage there will be...

Hi bmc,

I was thinking of that too....but what too look for...?

Thanks,

Almost certainly it will need a new 2nd gear - and a syncro ring. But very likely bearings will be a bit loose too.

Well, that's sounds fair....with the practical 'how to rebuild your gearbox' manual here on the forum rebuilding will be a nice project for this winter...

Found myself a Nice 'project' ribbed gearbox...

Now can start figure out how to recondition a gb (with the perfect manual form the forum).

Will keep you informed about the progress., but already in the mood to start !

My all-black-grease-covered gearbox turned out to be a gold seal one...nice detail....

Once opened (by the inspection cover) it's a really clean and good looking gb, I think....so tempted to give it a try without rebuilding....any easy tips and tricks to check it while on the bench ? (Of course turning, selecting al the gears, etc...)

drained oil was very clean, as was the drainplug(hole)....was stocked horizontally and not standing on the bell housing, so thats a plus....(not al bits stacked in the flywheel-side bearing)


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The dog teeth look good there - can you look down inside and see the 1st gear teeth on the laygear? If that's ok - I would give it a go as is !

So yesterday found myself a bit of time to remove the inspectioncover on my actual, mounted gearbox.

A bit fiddling around and a found the (1st and 2nd gear) selector-fork (the brass colored thing) being just loosely connected to the shaft!

That could explain why sometimes my gb jumped out the 2nd gear, isn't it, I thought to myself ;-)

After fitting it all back and a 'only 2nd gear testrun' I have to conclude that this was indeed the origin of the 'jumping out' problem !

Glad to have a (spare) gold seal gearbox now, but not needed for the moment...

It's rarely as simple as that - the selector fork doesn't hold the gear in mesh - it just pushes it into place, and then the spring loaded balls/slugs hold it in gear. But - fingers crossed - it's certainly well worth trying it to see what happens.