[Sunbeam Talbot Email List] Dropping out of Second Gear Staowners Digest, Vol 41, Issue 21

[Rod Allen]

Hello Don,
 
Dropping out of second gear has lots of reasons some simple to correct
others more complicated and suggestions have already been posted, I
would like to put forward another suggestion.
Two years ago my modern car broke down the day before we left to go to
France. The answer was to take the Sunbeam which we did. Had a great
time met up with George Simpson in his Alpine (a regular contributor
here) we had no problems at all with the car. Funnily enough the day
before we were due to come home I had a problem with the gears, it kept
jumping out of second (and eventually other gears!) I tried everything I
could  adjustment wise etc all to no avail. It is fair to say the
jumping out got extremely violent so it is different to just slipping
out of gear which I think is what has been described by others. The end
result was I left the car in our garage there and flew home the car was
repatriated later. Once home I made a few enquiries and the worst
scenario was that something had come adrift inside (circlip or
something) and that the mainshaft was moving backwards and forwards in
the housing (his sounded expensive) or that the main shaft bolt to
gearbox tail splines had come loose t(this sounded cheaper provided it
had not caused further damage) This causes the main shaft to also move
backwards and forwards! I took the second route which entails taking out
the short floor section in front of handbrake, dropping propshaft
pushing back and fishing around inside! I did not fish for long as the
bolt almost dropped out! I re attached it using nut lock as well as
spring washer and hey presto no more dropping out of gear. 
Well thats about it hope it helps and informs you and anyone else!
 
Regards
 
Rod Allen
Butleigh Somerset England

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