I'd like to thank everyone again for their suggestions and offers of help. I'm happy to report I've solved the problem and I'm able to engage all gears with the gear indicator. I ran through the checks of gear fitment, etc. as suggested and all was well. So I took Ernie's suggestion to set the gearbox up in the vice in the cover plate. and check the shifting with the camplate. That is how I had initially put the gearbox together for insertion but I don't believe I tried shifting gears with the camplate. I had just slid things back and forth and they meshed so I thought all was ok. After Ernie's suggestion I set it up again and this time rotated the camplate by hand and it became obvious that the selector forks were hanging up on the selector bar. Not really hard, but enough to make shifting very difficult in first and second.
I removed the selector bar and chucked it in the lathe and it was straight so I took about a thousand plus off of it and polished it up. On reassembly I was able to shift first through fourth with the gear selector so I'm a happy fellow and I'm going to proceed with getting her back together and running. That will be a happy day.... it's been too long off the road. Thanks again for everyone's help, it's hard to overstate how great this club is.
Ernie, thanks again.
Best regards,
Mark
I removed the selector bar and chucked it in the lathe and it was straight so I took about a thousand plus off of it and polished it up. On reassembly I was able to shift first through fourth with the gear selector so I'm a happy fellow and I'm going to proceed with getting her back together and running. That will be a happy day.... it's been too long off the road. Thanks again for everyone's help, it's hard to overstate how great this club is.
Ernie, thanks again.
Best regards,
Mark