In article , Bob Chilcoat says...

Yeah, but sometimes, like the one just described, it really IS the last
piece. I was rebuilding a Austin 1100 gearbox years ago (was stuck in two
gears at once -- something wrong with the shifter interlocks). It turned
out to be a loose setscrew (British: "grub screw") that held a shift fork to
its rod, allowing the fork to move on the rod. To get at it and tighten it,
absolutely EVERTHING else had to come out of that gear case first. The
shift rod for that fork was was the very last thing you could remove. Once
it was out, it was a simple matter of tightening the screw, and then putting
the whole damn thing back together.

LOL. So they started by assembling the gearbox: "place shifter fork
on shift shaft no. 1."

This is one reason those setscrews should be locktited in place, which
is what I did when assembling my neighbor's jeep gearbox, using red
locktite. I thought it might have been a JC maneuver, until we both
realized that the aftermarket shafts he had bought were machined incorrectly,
allowing one of the forks to overtravel and have mild gear interference.

He purchased NOS shafts, and after removing the gearbox from the car,
I realized that the setscrew was in there like it was welded in place.

I had to apply the flame of an air-acetylene torch to the head of the
screw, whereupon it was trivial to back it out. I felt a lot better about
the locktite option when re-assembling it the second time.

Jim


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