Gearbox Continued

When I first got the gearbox into the workshop I left it standing up on the bellhousing end, and when I went to look at it a day later I noticed a pool of oil running out from between the gearbox and the bellhousing.
With the bellhousing removed the problem was quickly found, the gasket that sits between the two had split in a couple of places and need to be renewed.
Ford no long make this gasket but you can still get them from a Ford performance company for a couple of pound plus the rip off cost for the P&P.
So I have made my own gasket out of a sheet of gasket paper by using the old one as a template and then cutting it out.

The two mating surface cleaned and ready to go back together.

The gasket in place on the bellhousing. The quickest way to put all the bolt holes in the gasket is to hold it in posision and then carefully tap them out with the ball end of a ball plane hammer.

The finished bellhousing gasket

The gasket is now fitted onto the gearbox with a thin layer of gasket sealent making sure not to get any on the selecter rod right at the very top of the gasket.

The gear seleter rod that fits to the bottom of the gear lever is cleaned and a small amount of white grease applyed.

The finished gearbox . All we need now is to remove the old engine & box from the Eagle

check the clutch and flywheel to be used with this engine & box.

Some info on the Type 9 Gearbox-

The Type 9 gearbox was Ford's first RWD 5 speed box, based on the 4 speed Type E box.

The box has a cast iron maincase with a alloy tail housing.

This gearbox is commonly used as a conversion on older vericles as we are doing with the Eagle RV.

Some of the later versions of the Type 9 were available with a integral bellhousing although the removable version is more commonly found.

A 4wd version of this box was also available for the early XR4x4 models

1X23 spline input shaft.

Fitted in

Capri 1.6/2.0 02/83 on

Capri 2.8 11/82 on (fitted with a longer input shaft)

Sierra 1.6.1.8/2.0 to 12/88

Sierra XR4i

Sierra XR4x4 2.8

Oil capacity: 2wd 1.9 litres

Standard oil grade 75W90 semi-synthetic or SAE 80