Restoration of Canadian Scout Car Ford Lynx I, Mk.III No.1726

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Next came the gear change tower. As the Lynx has the engine in the rear and facing backwards, the gear linkage has a pivot (known as the Bracket and Lever assembly) to change a push to a pull and vice-versa. (SEE Post #16 for those photos)

This pivot was re-bushed and so were the linkages where necessary.

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This is the tower as taken out of the chassis.

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There are packing gland seals at both ends of the rods and boy where they a challenge to replace. The gland nuts were seized solid and I did not want to apply heat as I needed to see the type and size of the gland packing. The gland nuts were close together too close to get a grip with anything I had in the workshop so made up a tool like the one you use to undo an oil filter only much smaller. After three or four tries with different straps I was able finally to undo and later tighten the packing glands.

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This is the inside of the tower showing the slides which press onto the base plate.

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There is a type of turn buckle set into the rods to allow gear change alignment or adjustment to be made if necessary. These two photos are taken of a Lynx under restoration in SA. You can see the adjustment nuts near to the cross member.

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In the tower where the lever goes in there is a pin to locate the lever and to stop it spinning around. This pin and the collar on the lever were worn and a bit of welding and the machining up of a new pin soon fixed that. New gaskets and a good clean saw the tower ready to be refitted.

Rick.