Project PFJ (French Blue Sprint)

[Mad Mart]

Don't really like the idea of gluing them on so will probably drill it.


Carried on rebuilding the engine today. It was a lovely sunny day and sooo peaceful, so I had the garage door wide open & was just pottering about. Who ever rebuilt this engine didn't put the rear crankshaft oil seal in fully for some reason.




Oil pickup in place, sump on, clutch on.........



I'm going to clean the gearbox up tomorrow & have a look at the internals to make sure all is OK.

[trackerjack]

Was the crank scored slightly so they moved the seal?

[Mad Mart]

No, crank was/is fine.



Cleaned up the gearbox this morning & popped the cover off. All looks fine. Looks like it's had a new cross shaft & taper pin recently (well recently before it got stored in a garage for 19 years ).




The inhibitor on the side is for the reversing lights, the one on the top is for the overdrive unit on 3rd & 4th gears (standard). The large bolt to the right can be taken out & another inhibitor switch added. If you then connect two wires from one switch to the other you will have O/D on second as well...simples.

[2F45T4U]

One of my Sprint gear boxxes doesn't have a hole (like yours has a bolt in it) for another switch... Why don't they all have it?

[Mad Mart]

I must admit, I don't know. I know they exist but I've never come across one without the bolt. I'm pretty sure you can drill & tap it though as the gear selecter rail still has the detent in it.

[zombeh]

If it doesn't have that hole then the top cover has probably been replaced at some point. Every sprint box I've seen has it but I don't think it's there on stags. There appear to be 6 different versions of that part used on the tr6 so some of them might not have it.

[xvivalve]

Its all to do with TR6 production which is where the Sprint box came from. When the A type overdrive was used, it had o/d on second as standard, but when the J type started to be used it was 3 & 4 only. When the J type was introduced it was an easy fix to the thousands of covers 'on the shelf' was to simply use a blanking bolt to fill the superfluous hole. Thereafter, as new batches of covers were cast it was a simple delete operation of drilling and tapping to save a few pence per cover. It will therefore be generally a later assembled gearbox which will have the boss but no hole

[Mad Mart]

Thanks for clearing that one up Alun.


Some bits I painted at the weekend:-

Heater blower:




Gearbox mountings. You should've seen the sludge I had to clean off of the cross member.




Clutch & Brake master cylinders, before & after:

[pal1972]

wow shiny!!! wot did u use to lean them up with?

[Mad Mart]

First I use a wire brush attachment on the drill. Then a bit of wire wool to get into the fiddly places. Finish off with a couple of coats of silver spray.

[Autonet7]

Hmmm....yummy !

[Mad Mart]

Mated the engine & gearbox today, makes life much easier when both units are out of the car.



Fitted clutch slave cylinder & bracket...



Stripped, cleaned & rebuilt the dizzy...



Managed to clean one wheel. There must be a quicker/easier way to do these?

[straylight]

looking great Mart, now you have gone twice around to my one (well, half really), I'm watching your every move with renewed interest.

stu

[TahitiSPRINT]

Managed to clean one wheel. There must be a quicker/easier way to do these?

If you happen to have one of these....



More info at Quiller

I'm trying to find a firm in the Netherlands that can do this

[David6214]

They Look absolutely fantatsic.....Did you courier them there Mike?