The Series Landy Gearbox explained

[tooSavvy]

Hillman IMP change is Rifley (err.. good flexi a given!)

 

My FIAT panda750 had an excellent change.... and helming one, at any velocity of consequence, required frantic changes, to keep the F.I.R.E. breathing

 

TS

[rml2345]

In a similar veign to the Leyland semi auto change...
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Scammell Gate Change by Plant.Transport Isle of Man, on Flickr

[tooSavvy]

^^^^^ that plate is ArtWork.

[Pillock]

Agree on the Scirocco/Golf box, they're a funny pattern. Whole box feels like it's on the twist so the evens aren't directly behind the odds.

[barefoot]

Some years ago, on our way down to Cornwall for a holiday, something came adrift in the t2 linkage.

I became aware ofthis when it would change up into third, but not down to it.

The forward gears 1 & 3 would not stay in unless held in place, they all required a microscopic but ultra precise movement to select apart from top which was about a foot further back than it should have been.

Well, I soon got the hang of it!

Not going to let a little thing like that bugger your holiday are you, so we continued down, left it for a week to get better, it didn't.

And then we came home.

Five hundred miles I drove it like that and down to the garage the following week where the bloke had a couple of goes before they just pushed it onto the ramp.

Some shepards crook stylie device inside the nosecone of the gearbox.

Ten pee for the bit and a shit load for the labour.

Still sorted properly and now my t2 has a change like the proverbial bolt action rifle.

[catsinthewelder]

I've always found that 2nd gear on my T2 can be elusive,  it's generally there on the way up but rarely on the way down. 

 

One night I was heading home from work at 10pm along a narrow street in town,  went to change from 1st to 2nd and there was an almighty clonk and I got reverse.  I tried for about 5 minutes to engage another gear before admitting defeat and reversing back to work.  I spent an hour underneath by torchlight before calling Ms C out for a lift home,  then several hours that weekend.  The RAC kindly dragged it home and I put a different box in.

[jonny69]

Not tried a Series gearbox but I did drive KFW's tat hauling truck at one of the RRGs and you had to be He Man to change gear in that thing. Left leg pushing so hard you can hear the back of the seat tearing. Literally pushing the gearstick as hard as you can while shouting BY THE POWER OF GREYSKULL and using all your strength in the other arm to try and turn the steering to stop yourself ploughing 3 tonnes of LHD truck into a field.