Hi Guys,
As always, full of (dumb) questions.
If you were to describe the gear shifting of a Brumby in average condition, would you describe it more difficult to put into various gears than a more modern care in average condition.
My Brumby is what I would call a little stiff when selecting gears, there's no crunch and I don't have any trouble finding the gears, it's just that the gear lever needs to be pushed into gear a little harder than I would have thought to get it into the gears?
After your thoughts as to whether that's normal, I changed the gear oil and used the recommended SAE 80W-90 (used Penrite by memory) a couple of months ago with no change in "stiffness". The lever itself isn't stiff, like it move freely when not trying to engage gears (if you can understand that:)), just needs pressure to go into gear.
Look forward to your experiences of what you would call average/normal for a 1986 with over 200,000 on the clock.
Cheers,
Barra