rlubikey

Look for Standard 8, Standard 10 and ... Standard Atlas. You'll probably have to change the top plate for a remote one (the rearward extension) - off your old gearbox for example. Can't say how strong they are, but the engines of the time only made about 35bhp! Richard PS: No, mine's not for sale I'm afraid!

I watched a well known gearbox builder rebuild Red Spit's. He had a bag full of syncro rings and must have spent half an hour just putting different ones together and feeling how they ... well, how they felt! He swapped them round, rejecting some instantly, keeping others and swapping them round until he was satisfied. Even then he would go back and try and improve on what he had. My observation was, it's all in the feel and there's no substitute for experience! (Not much help to you, I know) Richard

Really Robin, how so? My research suggested that a Type-9 5th (0.82) wasn't quite as tall as a 25% OD. Was it something else he was suggesting? I agree with Clive about speaking to Mike Papworth before making a decision. Richard

Lawrence, if you want a lowwww-cost solution and you're willing to forgo the odometer/tripometer function (odometer - legal requirement??), you can make one with a voltage-sensing tacho. I did this on the Atlas with an ABS sensor on the output flange of the gearbox (sensing the 4 bolts). I was all prepared to calibrate the tacho (see Hugh Glossop's Courier article on 4- to 8-cylinder tacho conversion) but found that my 3.7 diff just happened to give bang-on callibration. Your type-9 will give X-many pulses per revolution and you can calculate the answer, or do it by trial and error. Richard

Here you go - Upgrading 1968~79 VW Type 2, front/rear wipers & washers, might give you some ideas. Richard

Saw an artical about doing this on a VW Type-2 Van and the author suggested using a pantograph wiper arm (from some sort of Vauxhall) so as to get good coverage with the offset (downwards) motor. Made me think of using a Stag wiper arm to keep it Triumph on the Atlas. Richard