Hey there, everyone,
Like a lot of you, my RF79 came equipped with a Hewland Mk. 9. And as they seem prone to, mine had a small but annoying leak where the shift selector “hockey stick’ exits the bearing carrier to be bolted to the shift linkage. No problem, I figured. I’ll just buy and install one of those nifty seal kits from Pegasus. I did that and the leak was contained. I was thrilled! Then I went to my next event and discovered the seal kit prevented my transmission from being able to select half its ratios (2nd and 4th). I removed the seal kit to get through the weekend and endured the return of the leak.
My hockey stick only has one hole in it so there is no adjustability there. And the “handle’ tapers down past the one mounting hole so it’s too thin at the end to drill another hole. I only see two solutions. One: machining down the bearing carrier (and the brass bushing inside) the thickness of the seal kit ring to open the gap. But machining the bearing carrier will remove the mounting flange moulded into the bearing carrier, into which the seal kit is tapped and threaded for mounting. Option two: Does anyone make a longer shift selector fork with multiple shift linkage mounting holes in it?
Anyway, throwing this up for consideration by those of you who also purchased the Pegasus kit and then had to re-engineer it to make it work and your transmission shift properly. Any other solutions out there that I’m not seeing that will let me re-install the seal kit and still have four forward speeds?
Thanks!