Westfield Gear Linkage on a Tiger
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Another question from the 'new' Tiger owner !
The gear linkage on the Tiger was aweful so I have bought a Westfield linkage which is a much better engineered peice of kit.
Problem is it came with no instruction, most of the assembly is straight forward and quite obvious, but I am sure something needs to be modified/removed to allow reverse to be selected.
The sales guy at Westfield made reference to the reverse detente, I thought there would be a diagram but there was nothing.
Can anyone shed light on this, I am guessing it is because you cannot depress the gearlever with the remote linkage.
Ta
CT
The gear linkage on the Tiger was aweful so I have bought a Westfield linkage which is a much better engineered peice of kit.
Problem is it came with no instruction, most of the assembly is straight forward and quite obvious, but I am sure something needs to be modified/removed to allow reverse to be selected.
The sales guy at Westfield made reference to the reverse detente, I thought there would be a diagram but there was nothing.
Can anyone shed light on this, I am guessing it is because you cannot depress the gearlever with the remote linkage.
Ta
CT
Corpulent Tosser said:
Another question from the 'new' Tiger owner !
The gear linkage on the Tiger was aweful so I have bought a Westfield linkage which is a much better engineered peice of kit.
Problem is it came with no instruction, most of the assembly is straight forward and quite obvious, but I am sure something needs to be modified/removed to allow reverse to be selected.
The sales guy at Westfield made reference to the reverse detente, I thought there would be a diagram but there was nothing.
Can anyone shed light on this, I am guessing it is because you cannot depress the gearlever with the remote linkage.
Ta
CT
I don't have any experience with the Westfield linkage, but you are correct in that the remote linkage cannot depress the gear lever, so getting into revierse would be a little tricky!
Usualy, you have to remove the reverse detent from the original gearbox linkage, and the new linkage should provide some kind of reverse interlock.
You take the reverse stop out of the box (assuming you have a type-9 box) - poke out the oval metal endplate, look inside (on the right when viewed from the back) and there is a metal lump, cylindrical, about 1 inch long. Prise it out with a screwdriver.
Then fix the westie remote onto the top of the box, using the 3 bolts and washers, then fix your standard gearlever (cut down in the case of the Tiger kit) onto the far end of the westie.
On the bottom of the stardard cutdown shaft is (or should be) a small plastic thingy that clips onto the shaft and is free to rotate a bit. This is the new reverse stop - it bangs against a lump on the westie and stops it going into reverse unless you press it down.
MAKE SURE this is present and is clipped on the right way up, or it won't work. If you leave it off you'll have no reverse stop at all.
Get it right and the westie works beutifully - it's made the change on my Super Six soooo much better.
Then fix the westie remote onto the top of the box, using the 3 bolts and washers, then fix your standard gearlever (cut down in the case of the Tiger kit) onto the far end of the westie.
On the bottom of the stardard cutdown shaft is (or should be) a small plastic thingy that clips onto the shaft and is free to rotate a bit. This is the new reverse stop - it bangs against a lump on the westie and stops it going into reverse unless you press it down.
MAKE SURE this is present and is clipped on the right way up, or it won't work. If you leave it off you'll have no reverse stop at all.
Get it right and the westie works beutifully - it's made the change on my Super Six soooo much better.
Would it annoy you much if I told you Jim Dudley has designed a new remote gear linkage for the Tiger models that works more along the lines of the Westy one rather than the double bar arrangement?
And would it be more annoying if I told you it'll probably cost less than the Westy one?
Ta.
And would it be more annoying if I told you it'll probably cost less than the Westy one?
Ta.
The linkage is fitted and has transformed the car, thanks to all who replied, the reply and link from KITT were particularly useful.
In the event fitting was very straightforward, I didn't even have to modify the crossmember where the original linkage was bolted.
Thanks again to all.
CT
In the event fitting was very straightforward, I didn't even have to modify the crossmember where the original linkage was bolted.
Thanks again to all.
CT
although Jim at Tiger is apparently working on a Westfield type of linkage to replace the current system which can work in some cases, but I've yet to find a Tiger with one that's better than with the Westy remote.
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