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13th Feb, 2010 at 07:23:54pm

A quick question for those A series experts.

I have the engine out of the car and I have been looking over things. The remote shifter mechanism that sticks out of the bottom of the Diff/Engine casing is held in with a large pin. The pin seems to have some washers/shims to centralise it in the case. There seems to be some wear in them, you can get some side to side movement. I presume this is a bad thing. The car has always been a bit stiff to engage gears. I wonder if this is contributing.

Anyone know?

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13th Feb, 2010 at 07:28:55pm

I always shim this item quite tightly, but remember, that it does need to move.

On 13th Jul, 2012 Ben H said:
Mine gets in the way a bit, but only when it is up. If it is down it does not cause a problem.

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13th Feb, 2010 at 07:46:59pm

Vegard, I presume wear in these components doesn't help with gear change?

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13th Feb, 2010 at 11:44:02pm




On 13th Feb, 2010 gr4h4m said:
Vegard, I presume wear in these components doesn't help with gear change?


Of course not. The problem is that the shafts wear, not the easy to change bushes. OS bushes cannot be used as there are splines on the ends of the two long shafts.
I searched and found some good ones, the other options is to have metal sprayed on and milled down in a lathe.

If there are no regulations, I see no use for a remote change box apart from originality.

On 13th Jul, 2012 Ben H said:
Mine gets in the way a bit, but only when it is up. If it is down it does not cause a problem.

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14th Feb, 2010 at 12:06:02am

I was thinking the same... and you cant swap the cases either. I have a couple of spare remote boxes that I started to collect as I realise it old stuff now and people in the local club were chucking out. I will check the shafts and see what has the least wear.

Why remote - its original no other reason buts its always has a stiff change.

Edited by gr4h4m on 14th Feb, 2010.

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Carlos Fandango

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14th Feb, 2010 at 12:22:05am

I like the remote box purely for the extra engine steadying, I seem to be able to kill steady bushes fairly quickly on rod boxes...

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At the risk of being sigged...

Joe, do you have a photo of your tool?



http://www.turbominis.co.uk/forums/index.p...9064&lastpost=1

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14th Feb, 2010 at 12:24:03am




On 14th Feb, 2010 mini13 said:
I like the remote box purely for the extra engine steadying, I seem to be able to kill steady bushes fairly quickly on rod boxes...


You've got a valid point, but I'd rather have the rod box and a bunch of engine steadies.

On 13th Jul, 2012 Ben H said:
Mine gets in the way a bit, but only when it is up. If it is down it does not cause a problem.

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Carlos Fandango

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14th Feb, 2010 at 12:34:20am

even with 4 steadies i still seem to be able to wrench the lump loose :/

although i havent tried it with the more modern MPI style bushes yet .

On 28th Aug, 2011 Kean said:
At the risk of being sigged...

Joe, do you have a photo of your tool?



http://www.turbominis.co.uk/forums/index.p...9064&lastpost=1

https://joe1977.imgbb.com/



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15th Feb, 2010 at 02:26:45am

My remote has huge amounts of wear, about 3-4 mm sideways movement in the selector.
The gearstick moved a lot but i could still find gears (no one else could though :))

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15th Feb, 2010 at 08:51:47am




On 15th Feb, 2010 best_stig said:
My remote has huge amounts of wear, about 3-4 mm sideways movement in the selector.
The gearstick moved a lot but i could still find gears (no one else could though :))


This is of help:

https://secure.surfinteractive.co.uk/cgi-bi...iParts:MiniMisc

I've got one in my race-car.

On 13th Jul, 2012 Ben H said:
Mine gets in the way a bit, but only when it is up. If it is down it does not cause a problem.
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