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The handbrake rocker bit, all gets a bit tight trying to miss 3rd gear and fit through the small gap.

only an inch left... You didn't make enough mistakes! God knows how many cuts and welds we did trying to miss the brake mechanism and third gear

Just back in, just a little colder than we would like. Both doors hung, missus happy to have dining room back

Hi, Yes raider 12 manual is the same. The strap is home made to stop the hub sliding in, later models used two setscrews. That model no is a later style number where 11 would be 71, 12= HP, k= Kohler, 8 = 8 speed. 01 = belgium. That style was used from 77 onwards, so someone has added that later...

Slow progress, last weeks navigation canal slowed us down. The calm and wet has forced me to this painting in the dining room Missus not impressed, dog keeps jumping up to have a look and gets paint in her paws, then runs off...

Thanks for your concerns chaps, we had a lot of water - nothing like you had a few years ago though Neil! Fortunately ours drains away pretty quickly, it's just the path it takes that's not that agreeable All that water is now ice, it was minus four last night.... Brrrrrr

Nice find, Richard is right. Around 1973-1980 the Belgian models weren't always stickered as the model number indicates...

A little more than we had, 50mph winds put paid to that here!

When my last one broke I really panicked, it was about the first power tool plugged in when we moved house. Awesome for cleaning tubing and polishing welds

Nice work Norm, I made the same mistake fouling the filler tube!

I love mine, on my second one.first me did 20 years! Belts are cheap too from screwfix!

There's a teardown thread somewhere in the web when we did my sons Westwood gearbox.

all the best Doug!

Hi, I forgot the B-115 is 5 speed. Doh! I was think of the 600 series in a B-111 Yes you have to split the two halves, they are usually filled with bentonite grease. All 5 speeds and reverse are in constant mesh with a sliding pin that is the selector. Over time they can wear badly and get bent/stepped which makes it hard to push through the gears. You can get replacement ones though, so it is repairable! Mark

All the best dude, don't drink too much!

Yes, but most folks haven't heard of winterburn so it's easier to say malham.

That's down the lane from me Norm, that's where my water goes... The reservoir is less than a mile away, winterburn reservoir, built to fill the Leeds Liverpool canal - which is now full if you were wondering

Pics slow to upload, been copying them for an hour!

We've had a fair bit of rain this last week, last night we caught the back end of abigail. I was up at 1am this morning screwing sheets across doorways and mopping up water from the window sills. Our new house seems to leak like a sieve Here's a few from the day Both lanes in the bottom are flooded too, my little Citroen will not get me through to work tomorrow.... Pics slow to copy and download, Internet is barely that around here...

You will have to take it apart, you might get away with just taking the selector housing off without splitting it.

Norm is referring to the main differential carrier bearings. They are obsolete and used in all unidrive geared or hydro, though the D series and GT series use a much larger Torrington bearing instead. Everything else is different though, esp the casings

Wow, quite a conversation.... Th uni-drive patent refers to the combined 3 speed transmission and reverse. I've not heard of the autos being referred to as unidrive, but equally wouldn't be surprised if they all fell under the same name... Think Hoover! Personally I would go for an 8 speed, less prone to failure and easier to pull apart. You can rebuild one in a weekend with a few bearings and seals. A hydro can be a pita, and they take some knowledge and patience, a few of us have pulled them apart. Agree with Alain though a good hydro is great, however a weak hydro is not. They can leak, groan, lose power when warm...

Still nice and firm there, just mud where we are now

Welcome to the group, does it run?

A slow and wet weekend up North, lots of work - but doesn't result in enough progress then the rain really set in and we were flooded out - most of the new stuff in the adjacent bay was under water yesterday was just as wet!