Fri.30.07.10. By 9.30 the Burlington
was outside Derek’s garage, Miry lane, Wigan .
After studying the problem it was decided that the easiest access was from
above. Firstly, the gearbox tunnel was removed exposing the lever mechanism.
The support bracket needed to be detached allowing extra space in which to
extract the four bolts holding the prop shaft to the gearbox phalange. As expected
the locking nut was slack: it requiring
several sharp turns from a ‘windy gun’. The take up was approximately 2mm: not
disastrous at this stage but this was a problem that would only worsen. ‘Auto
gearboxes’ of Preston had overlooked this
procedure; potentially this could have caused irreparable damage to the box:
unfortunately yet another example of sloppy craftsmanship. So, what’s new!
The procedure had taken only a matter of 2 hours costing
£20.00 plus a box of Chardonnay: money well spent. As the rain closed in I was
unable to ‘wizz’ the car up the M6 to test the box, that journey will have to
wait until tomorrow.
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