Rather than buying a Single Rail Spitfire Alloy Bell housing at considerable expense, when I had several Alloy 3 Rail units available, I've gone along the route of transferring the Spit 1500 internals into a GT6 gearbox case. Oh I'm also going down the route of a J type overdrive conversion too, so the mainshaft has been changed too (RKC767).
I've sourced all the necessary components, here in Aus, UK, USA, and Canada so it's taken a little time to assemble all the parts. A lot of washers and thrusts are NLA.
When I stripped down the original Single Rail box I kept the mainshaft gears spacers and thrusts in order, but my thrust washer to 2nd gear UKC934 (to 937) doesn't look like the unit shown in Rimmers, Moss or Canley gearbox diagrams. The unit shown there is a typical Thrust Washer with up to 4 thickness between 0.199in to 0.207in and appears to have raised bearing faces, but mine is a simple annulus arrangement of 0.875in ID, 1.241in OD and 0.121in thick/wide, there is also a single ball bearing BLS106 which inserts into the mainshaft at this location, my thrust washer won't go over this bearing, nor will the bearing fit into it's hole with my washer in place. Oh and my thrust washer has a groove in it where it butts up to the 1st/2nd Syncro Hub.
Can anyone supply a cross section of the Spit 1500 Single Rail &/or MkIV with a 3 Rail arrangement gearbox thro the mainshaft giving the relationship of all the components, all the usual suppliers show an isometric arrangement with components generally in line.
One further question relates to the two spacers each side of the needle roller in the end of the input shaft ie 22G2840 and 22G2839, I'm sure I have both the latter ex USA. Can some one provide the dimensions of both but mainly 22G2840, as mine appears to be a very tight fit and before I fit it into the end of the inout shaft I don't want to get it jammed.
Regards
Peter T