Lagonda Rapiers

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Hello Again
Can I please have another helping of Humble Pie?
Old age is really starting to catch up with me. I simply cannot remember where the one longer centraliser spring and the drilled dowel that obviously goes with it, should go in the gearbox? Here is a perfect opportunity for someone to make me look a real idiot.

1-8-2019

In reply to my question regarding the different lengths of the wedge shaped adjuster set screws, Peter Meyer has sent me the attached diagrams. So now I can proceed with the next step in the final assembly of the 'box.

1-8-2019

This mornings photographs show 1. A strut showing the beak shaped projection,This is to prevent  two gears being selected. The "Pad" closer to the bottom of the strut comes into contact with the spring steel blades controlled by the camshaft.
2. The wedge shaped adjuster set screws.
 
The second photograph looking in from the underside shows the interior of the gearbox showing the camshaft and spring steel blades. This also shows the swinging pieces which prevent more than one gear being selected at a time.
These in part demonstrate the immense amount of thought that went into the designing of these extremely complex transmissions.