Reverse delay

I had a look at the pictures of your car accessed from your signature panel. Must say it actually looks very good! Once you see past the cosmetic scruffy bits there aren't any of the usual clues to a really rotten rover. On that basis it ought to be time rather than cost or difficulty to get it looking sparkling!

So I know none of us are actually going to volunteer for a big bill, but if the box is the only major one coming with the car is that a huge problem? It does at least give you an excuse for a proper engine bay tidy up whilst the engine is out! Presumeably the biggest hazard is finding someone competent to do the overhaul? But didn't contemporary Volvo's use this box? So presumeably there will be at least someone in the same country! Or ship it to Harvey? Looks to me like the car is worth it. Or use the excuse to convert to a five speed manual?

Chris
 
chrisyork said:
Presumeably the biggest hazard is finding someone competent to do the overhaul? But didn't contemporary Volvo's use this box? So presumeably there will be at least someone in the same country! Or ship it to Harvey? Looks to me like the car is worth it. Or use the excuse to convert to a five speed manual?

Chris
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Volvos and about a few hundred others :LOL: Although there are differences.

I'd be inclined to remove and dismantle, as with only an easily made tool the rear clutch can be dismantled, post some pics as you do and I'll see if the problem is visible. Getting them back together is the problem, but we'll cross that bridge when we come to it.


In my younger days my motto was "have spanners, will travel!"
 
Yesterday I was driving a long testdrive, 3rd jump in a few times and reverse worked when it's hot.
The car is fun to drive and worked well when 3rd is in.
But of course I should take autobox down, maybe at sunday.

The car have also passed Swedish MOT, have to change both rear brake hoses, but it's ready now and the car is ok to drive with further two year. :D
Not so bad after 11 year under a tree... but is wasn't fun to drive to MOT in second gear... but it's not so far away from me.

I got contact with a man who worked with this sort of autobox in early 1970- and even now here in Sweden, he got all tools so I can borrow this installers of him. He could also sell master kit to me. That's nice.

More to come...
 
Sounds like your getting close to a 100% result! Well done! And look forward to the joys of classic Rovering for the Nordic summer!

Chris
 
Hello again, now it's time to change gearbox and I wonder if I could use the converter from the old "7FU"- gearbox to the new "267"- gearbox? I got the "267" - converter but if I don't have too change it, it would be good.

From May to now the car have just been parked beside the garage, because we have renovate bathroom and a couple of rooms in basement, and at holiday's we have cuised around with our Cadillac.

But now I'm back again, the autobox SHOULD be ok, I've checked pressuare in it and it seemed to be ok.

Happy New Year!
 
Peter said:
Hello again, now it's time to change gearbox and I wonder if I could use the converter from the old "7FU"- gearbox to the new "267"- gearbox? I got the "267" - converter but if I don't have too change it, it would be good.
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I assume from that you would just remove the gearbox and replace that, leaving the torque converter and bell housing in place. If that is the case then the 267 will fit whatever converter and bellhousing is already in the car.

The only thing you need to be careful of with converters and bellhousings is that the early converter with the cooling shroud must be used with the early bellhousing that has the cooling vent holes, the later type converter without the shroud can be used with either type of bellhousing. None of this matters in your case as you're leaving it all in place.
 
Now I've changed gearbox, complete with converter was the easiest for me and my tools. The only I forgot to remove was the kd-wire to engine so it was broken... and that was the short type. And the new box got the long one... so now I've to make a new bracket for it, of course I should have changed wires first, but... that's it. Could I use the long wire?

The new box seemed to work well, it's too slippery on the roads for a longer test drive, have to wait until it would be little warmer, we have between -10 to -20 Celsius here for the moment. But it worked well in and out the garage.

Have to adjust the two horisontal rods to.

Rear mount and right side engine mount was bad, where to buy these?

Thank's for all help and support.
 
You can't use the long kickdown cable into the bracket into the back of the cyl head, it's just too long, if you wanted to use it you would need to have the early HS6 carbs, and the bracket for the cable that is used with them. Later HIF6 carbs never had the long cable so there is no provision to fit the long cable to them. Best way out of a bad situation is to buy a new short cable and fit that, but that will involve draining the oil and removing the sump. Getting the kickdown cable fitted and correctly adjusted is probably the single most important thing on these boxes after the fluid type and level.

If you have a 267 box with a long cable my guess would be it was originally fitted to a P5B.
 
So, now I've changed wire and even took a little short testdrive, and it seemed to work properly. Even third gear jumped in!!! But it was too cold and slippery for a longer drive.

BTW, now it's a "7FU" in car, the old were a "267"... a little misstake of me again... 8)

Thank's again for all help!
 
Well that sounds promising, let's hope that a proper test drive in better conditions proves that it really is "Problem Solved"
 
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