Occie gets a 5-speed box!

Demetris said:
Yep, it looks exactly the same with the lever in my car.

Just the job!
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Thanks again Demetris.
 
There's no reverse stop on the LT77, just a firm push to the left against spring pressure then forward. Although I've got the spring resistance set down a tad, I've decided to leave the lever 12mm longer than Demetris's measurements for now, and see how it feels for a while.

I can always take a bit more off....bit more difficult to put it back on! :)


Die-ing down the lever...
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Made a new sleeve today (might shorten this a touch), that'll I get chromed once I'm happy with the set-up....
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...fitted...
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...lever shortened...and topped off!
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I'll be able to give it a good trial over the next weekend and beyond...mate and I are off to France and Belgium on Saturday.
 
That looks very smart indeed. I really like the attention to detail. I hope you have a great time in France with Occie! Take plenty of photos!
 
That does look good Stan.

You've done a cracking job of retaining an original look with the new gearbox. I've seen a few that have been left with the more modern looking gearlever and IMHO they just don't look right so well done.

I presume you have access to a lathe that you managed to turn a new collar like that? Is there no end to your engineering prowess? :wink:

Have a good trip.

Dave
 
Very smart :mrgreen:

I have the black sleeve, the correct gaiter and a gear knob from a LT77 land rover, which looks similar but has the correct gate piccy on it.

That collar looks the business though - did you make it yourself?

Richard
 
Cheers all,

Although I'm in fastener manufacture - cold heading, thread rolling, etc - we do all our own maintenance and tooling so I've got lathes, mills and grinders to use.

One of the benefits of an engineering apprenticeship I suppose...but we won't talk about the p1$$-poor wages then (£3 17s 4d as a 15 year-old starter! :shock: ), whilst all my mates were in the building trade earning over twice as much. :roll:

I remember as a callow youth being told by the then foreman I wouldn't regret it. And, do you know? I think he was right! :D
 
vaultsman said:
I remember as a callow youth being told by the then foreman I wouldn't regret it. And, do you know? I think he was right! :D

Amen... I did a six year apprenticeship specialising in cylindrical/bore and profile grinding, that's what the 'smarter' kids who weren't going to university did when I left school. they sent all the less well educated kids to be plumbers and electricians. Doh!

Keith Barret said on Marion and Geoff once "I feel proud to have worked for a company with technology so advanced, they didn't even need me any more!"
 
Hi, After reading this guide I'm going to a have a 5 speed box fitted to my 3500s - it looks like a worthwhile investment. I may even use it everyday for work!

Would it be possible to have a copy of the notes used in the conversion?


Regards


Thomas.
 
thomas_1972 said:
Hi, After reading this guide I'm going to a have a 5 speed box fitted to my 3500s - it looks like a worthwhile investment. I may even use it everyday for work!

Would it be possible to have a copy of the notes used in the conversion?


Regards


Thomas.

Hi Thomas,

PM sent.
 
chrisyork said:
Hi Stan

So how was the continental trip then? Nice and relaxed?

Chris

Hi Chris,

Utterly brilliant! Lovely weather and great towns, B&B's...and beer! :wink:
Very pleased and proud to see all the immaculately-kept British & Commonwealth War Cemeteries as well. Still inspirational.

Occie behaved impeccably, even refusing to gripe at being pushed along at 80mph in 3rd for a fair distance - until I awoke from a snooze in the passenger seat and realised my mate thought he was in 5th! :shock:

I'm going to need to recalculate the mpg as a quick stab is suggesting, for a mix of motorway (mainly), town and country driving, I got around 30mpg. This is allowing for what appears to be a 1.3:1 ratio for actual/speedo reading. (As best as I can judge it as there is a bit of speedo bounce)

62 speedo = 80 actual (3000 engine rpm)
57 speedo = 74 actual (2700)
55 speedo = 71 actual (2600)

Photo-opportunity....
Occie outside Serre Road No. 2 Cemetery on the Somme.
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I'll post some more pics in The Lounge once I get them organised.
 
That sounds excellent consumption. Even if you're a couple of percent out, still brilliant. The P6 is a simply superb grand tourer isn't it!

I think the Somme should be a compulsory trip for every Brittain at least once in their life. As you say, deeply moving and the perfect answer for the war faction in recent politics. It's the age of all the kids that sobers me. I have had the priviege of taking some of our younger family members to see the war grave cemetry at the Bridge over the River Kwai in Thailand (actually at Knchanaburi - but who's arguing) which is similarely moving. They came away suitably quietened. Especially when I explained the numbers of Asians who died there unremembered - around 250,000, roughly one for every sleeper of the Thai-Burma railway.

Fabulous shot of Occie.

Chris
 
It's been mentioned but I'd get that front wing bottom blacked out ASAP. Just the sill blacked can work on the P5 (ours has been like it for many years), but it looks very awkward on the P6 judging from your photos. Just my humble opinion of course. :wink:
Glad the trip went well & the mod' has been a success.
 
I've been to war and army graves in India and that were immaculately maintained, sadly the rest of the graveyard wasn't.
The River Kwai bridge is one of those good/bad things. Good because there's lots of life, the train runs across it, kids running around etc, bad because you remember a lot of men who made a one way trip to a battlefield or prison camp.

Extremely jealous that you guys can just hop on the train and be cruising through Europe!

Looking at the photo above, I'll throw my hat into the "black out the bottom of the guard" ring now. Occie looks ace.
 
Vaultsman
Please can you advise were you purchased the polybushes from as Im just about to fit five speed to my car which by the way is the same colour as yours (GMJ475M) .
Spoke with Harvey and done all he advised only need a SDI G/Box bracket to complete ,I bough the car because of the memories when My father had an original all those years back.
Thanks for you time help
Spokido
 
spokido said:
Vaultsman
Please can you advise were you purchased the polybushes from as Im just about to fit five speed to my car which by the way is the same colour as yours (GMJ475M) .
Spoke with Harvey and done all he advised only need a SDI G/Box bracket to complete ,I bough the car because of the memories when My father had an original all those years back.
Thanks for you time help
Spokido

Hi Spokido,

Bit pushed for time this morning, but I'll put a proper reply together for you later today.

Cheers for now,
 
spokido said:
Vaultsman
Please can you advise were you purchased the polybushes from as Im just about to fit five speed to my car which by the way is the same colour as yours (GMJ475M) .
Spoke with Harvey and done all he advised only need a SDI G/Box bracket to complete ,I bough the car because of the memories when My father had an original all those years back.
Thanks for you time help
Spokido

Hi spokido,

Sorry for the delay in posting!

I got the polybushes (together with quite a few other LT77 bits) from S&S Preparations, who were very helpful and did me a good deal:

http://www.ss-preparations.co.uk/


Borg & Beck 3-piece clutch kit & slave c/w metric fitting I picked up locally for £100. The SD1 gearbox crossmember came from a guy on the SD1 forum:

http://www.roversd1club.net/forum-disclaim.asp

Worth a post on there if you need any advice/second hand parts - again, very helpful people.

Let me know your email address if you'd like a copy of the conversion notes that Dave McSweeney kindly sent me.

Good Luck - you won't regret it! :D
 
Looking at doing this again , after 25+ years since last time, so this thread is a big help! Last time I just bolted the Sd1 rear mount to the body, and ignored height of the output flange - no issues, but didnt get much use out of it before moving OS for work. This time I have measured the output height with a new std 4 speed rear mount, so Have a height to aim at. Measuring mine now I make the outside of the plunging section 35-40mm above the level of the rear body mounting flanges, which translates to the output flange bottom being 8-13mm above the same ref level. Previously with collapsed rear mount reverse wass difficult to get reliably, but now its good. Thinking of getting the box at correct height, cutting the ears off the sd1 cross member, fitting it, and trialling some angle bar to get a location, and welding them on - should work???
thanks
 
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