Postby Hasbeen » 09 Apr 2016 03:18
Just to play devils advocate, when I got my current 7 going, the gear change bushes were almost nonexistent, as they have been in all my 7s. However the gear change was as smooth as silk & quite precise.
I had probably done a couple of thousand kilometres in the car before I got to the extension bushes. After they went in the change was equally precise, but was stiffer to use. Not unpleasantly so, it was still a beautiful gear change compared to most, but not quite as sweet. It went from a 2 finger change to a 4 finger change.
70,000 kilometres & over a decade later the change is still the same 4 finger change, & equally satisfying. The selector spring did loose some tension, & was allowing the leaver to move over into the reverse plane too easily. You should have seen the look on the face of the technician at the large spring makers, when I asked them to retemper my little hair type spring. It worked though, now I no longer have to be careful not to go too far & into the reverse plane, when going back to second in anger.
Hasbeen