I'm overhauling my early 850 pudding stirrer gearbox and was considering installing a later 3 synchro gearset (if possible).
Can a complete gearset from a 3-synchro 22G68 box be installed directly into an earlier 22A363 box without any modifications?.
Cheers
Dave

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"61 850 original and crusty (Mavis)
"64 Smooth Roof Van (Colin)
"67 Deluxe resto project (Monty)

You could put rear diff cover off 850 onto other box. Convert it to majic wand. Just test fit first to ensure machined faces line up.

Yes-i was thinking of doing this as well but like the idea of keeping the original 22A363 casing.
I may need to go this way if the later gearset can't be installed in it.

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"61 850 original and crusty (Mavis)
"64 Smooth Roof Van (Colin)
"67 Deluxe resto project (Monty)

Just stamp FS after the 22A363 makes it a 850 full syncro.

I cant think of anything that would stop you changing the gear set provided the entire 1st motion, laygear and mainshaft assemblies all get replaced.

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Thanks RNY997
I do have the entire gear set to drop into the 850 gearbox (1st motion, laygear and main shaft assemblies with new bearings, baulk rings etc)
I was just concerned that the 22G68 gear set wouldn't work in the earlier box (and i don't want to find out once everything is re-assembled and i take the car for a drive!!)
Cheers
Dave

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"61 850 original and crusty (Mavis)
"64 Smooth Roof Van (Colin)
"67 Deluxe resto project (Monty)

I once put a 997 Cooper gearset into an early 850 box. But it was in 1966 and I can't remember the details.

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I'll do a dry run and if it looks like everything works-will give it a go!!

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"61 850 original and crusty (Mavis)
"64 Smooth Roof Van (Colin)
"67 Deluxe resto project (Monty)

Well I've taken apart my 22A363 and my 22G68 gearboxes now and there are a couple of minor differences between the two.

The main one is that the outside diameter of the mainshaft roller bearing on the older gearset is around 63mm whilst the one from the 22G68 box is 65mm. The 1st motion shaft bearings and all of the gears appear to be the same but the older gears have brass cones instead of synchro rings.

I've only read about these early "brass cone" type gears but have never actually seen any examples.

For anyone that is curious, here are a couple of pics showing the difference (the older brass cone type is on the left and the later synchro ring type is on the right (pics of 1st motion shafts).





The good news is that, apart from the outside diameter of the mainshaft roller bearing, the actual mainshafts from both the 22A363 and the 22G68 boxes appear to be the same.

I haven't taken the mainshafts apart yet, but if they are identical, I should be able to remove all the old brass cone gears from the 22A363 mainshaft and install the synchro gearset from the later 22G68 box onto it.

Stay tuned for further info!!

Cheers

Dave

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"61 850 original and crusty (Mavis)
"64 Smooth Roof Van (Colin)
"67 Deluxe resto project (Monty)

The old cone synchro gears had bronze bushes in them, they were replaced by roller bearings in the later box.
I think the mainshaft may be different to accommodate this. If you can't fit the later mainshaft and gears into the old box I would put the magic wand diff housing and shifter onto the 22G68 box and use that.

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Thanks Kevin-the older brass (bronze) cone 1st motion shaft has a roller bearing in it but i haven't pulled the gears apart to have a look at them yet. I'll post more pics when I have the two main shafts apart.
It's still an interesting discovery exercise for me as it shows the evolution of the gears and I've not seen the inside of an older gearbox before.
Cheers
Dave

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"61 850 original and crusty (Mavis)
"64 Smooth Roof Van (Colin)
"67 Deluxe resto project (Monty)

It was 2nd and 3rd gears that were bushed. They gave problems, hence why they were changed to rollers.

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DrMini- 1970 wasaMatic 1360, Mk1S crank, 86.6HP (ATW) =~125 @ crank, 45 Dellorto (38 chokes), RE282 sprint cam, 1.5 rockers, 11.0:1 C/R.

These service bulletins may be of interest.

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I like how they say the original cone synchromesh wasn't a problem. Back then it was well known that the 2nd gear synchro used to die early, often around 8,000 miles.
It was identical to that then used in the Morris Minor 1000, however the added inertia of the Mini's drop gears use to kill it on downshifts.

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DrMini- 1970 wasaMatic 1360, Mk1S crank, 86.6HP (ATW) =~125 @ crank, 45 Dellorto (38 chokes), RE282 sprint cam, 1.5 rockers, 11.0:1 C/R.

Thanks for the service bulletins Doug.
Amazing amount of info about early gearboxes.