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

The shifter itself should feel like it is floating in a bowl of oatmeal.  There are a couple threads here with details on how to firm up the stick itself and remove most of the floppy play.  Actually engaging the gears themselves could be the syncros going out.  As I understand it this was an issue that the 4spd gear boxes had that the 5spd ones did not.  If you are familiar with double clutching I would run it through the gears a couple times doing that.  If it is syncro related the double clutch should bypass the issue entirely.  May help you narrow down the source.