gear selector shafts -selector forks, help
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is there a special knack to get the gear selector shaft to engage with the selector fork mechanism? i have just changed the final drive, so had to disconect this to lock the gearbox up. i cant seem to get the groves on the shaft to go where they should.

any advice anyone?

Yes, but it's very hard to put in words...
If you're having trouble, what might have happened is one of the bell cranks could have come out of its selector fork so although you have the synchro hubs back where they should be, the bell crank isn't engaged at that end, so is in the wrong place at the selector shaft end.
Look very carefully, with both syncro hubs in neutral and the reverse idler out of engagement, the three slotted ends of the bell cranks should all be dead in line. If not, one of the cranks is not engaged on its selector fork.
Then get the selector arm with its end away from the bell cranks, get it into the centre of the interlock sleeve and just rotate them round together into the openings in the bell cranks.
Then push the detent outer tube in (doesn't matter about the ball and spring at this stage, just the tube they run in) to stop the interlock sleeve moving backwards and forwards, just allowing it to rotate through the correct arc.

Rod.

Schrödinger's cat - so which one am I ???

as retired said, make sure you all in neutral in all gears and dont forget reverse as this is the usaul suspect, slao so sometimes the selector hits on the bell levers to which can be a problem but a bit of twisting and shoving normally gets it sorted.

always looking for them bigger bunches of bannanas

cheers chaps. was in reverse. silly arse!