Series 2a rebuild - Ordered new parts for hand brake transmission - full kit including brake shoes, adjuster housing, expander etc. Fitted new expander and adjuster and then discovered the brake shoes do not fit! I think I have ordered parts for a different gearbox number... but given difficult...

Many thanks Blackburn.

That makes sense tottot - can’t believe it needs to be such a long spring but I’ll thread the spring back into the tube of the clutch fork with a small end showing that acts to stop any fork rattle Thanks!

Thanks Lynall for looking this up. The spring is quite long - you can get it into the fork with a struggle... but I can't see - with it so compressed in there - what its purpose can be apart from getting in the way of the shaft! It can't act as a spring back (or forward) mechanism.

So I have been taking the gearbox apart of our S2a - took out the Clutch release mechanism and noticed there was no spring in the cross shaft. I assumed that there should be one... although not sure what is does! I have bouts the spring but for the devil of me I have no idea how (or even...

Rebuilding Series 2a with my son.