I am reasonably familiar with Villiers 9e / 32a gearboxes and have re-built them in the past so I wasn't too bothered when I decided to renew the sleeve gear bearing and seal in the 32a engine I have. All went well as I meshed the witness marks on the toothed quadrant with the selector barrel gear. At least I did a dry run to check all was well. Not so.Gears all over the place and only three of them.
To cut a long story short after about half a dozen tries it was clear that the dot on the quadrant should NOT line up with the line on the cam barrel if the thing was to work. Eventually I found the correct tooth engagement for the box to operate properly and marked it accordingly.
But the question is, How can this be. I can't believe that Villiers got it so wrong all those years ago. Not possible surely. Maybe some components have been swapped from other gearboxes over the years.
Has anyone else come across this before ? please tell !!
Thanks
To cut a long story short after about half a dozen tries it was clear that the dot on the quadrant should NOT line up with the line on the cam barrel if the thing was to work. Eventually I found the correct tooth engagement for the box to operate properly and marked it accordingly.
But the question is, How can this be. I can't believe that Villiers got it so wrong all those years ago. Not possible surely. Maybe some components have been swapped from other gearboxes over the years.
Has anyone else come across this before ? please tell !!
Thanks
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