Lotus Club Queensland
Dedicated to the promotion and enhancement of the Lotus experience
Login
Register
  • Home
  • About Us
  • Membership
    • Member Portal
    • Join the Club
  • Events
    • Calendar
  • For Sale
    • Merchandise
    • Classifieds
  • Posts
  • Business Directory
    • Suppliers & Parts
    • Advertisers
  • Galleries
  • Magazine
  • Motorsport
    • DTC Live Results – October 2022
    • DTC Live Results – August 2022
    • DTC Live Results – July 2022
    • DTC Live Results – June 2022
  • Archives
Broken Gear Case, plug hitting trailer not an uncommon problem

The Ford Gearbox – some words of caution

By Greg Bray

Be careful when driving your Lotus 7 up onto your trailer. Making sure that the rear cross bar of the trailer is low enough to clear the gearbox drain plug, so it doesn’t hit the bar. Because the plug will and does break the casing, because it’s thinner than you think.

Ford Gearboxes used in Elans and ‘7’ run all the intermediate gears steel on steel with oil ways on the main shaft. They can only take the oil level so low before the gear seizes on the shaft which I’ve had a number of times. The car only wants to drive in one gear, and move forward in neutral.

Other gearbox manufacturers either have a bronze bush or a caged needle roller bearing and therefore can take the low oil without seizes. Fords are the only manufacturer that I know that did it on the cheap without bearings in gears.

Random Glorious Two Wheeled Run Lotus Club Drive In a Covid 19 Environment

Related Posts

duratec-banner

Articles, Homepage, Technical

Duratec Elise – better late than never

plus2-banner

Articles, Gallery 2022, Homepage, Technical

Unique +2 Road Trip to Brisbane

helmet-banner

Articles, Homepage, Racing

$10 HEAD/$10 HELMET

Random images

img_1061
IMG_0421
DSC_5310
1426860242_c16c000a1c_m_1
P1010074
IMGP2252
F1000024
IMG_0404
2006_08_27_Gympie_Skid_Pan0048
2006_08_27_Gympie_Skid_Pan0066
main-16
main-28a
Morning-coffee-at-the-Mountain-Cafe
Through-beautiful-undulating-countryside
main-13
_Peter-&-Mal-lining-up-for-ice-creams
image_066
IMG_7345
IMG_5090
IMG_5097
IMG_8589
IMG_0542
IMG_8054
IMG_8069
IMG_8094
IMG_8105
IMG_6315
P6220117
IMG_3178
P1020754
142_142
Carina_Clive_Maree_Mal_Daryl_Shane_Russell_Jenny
IMG_7888a
9_IMG_9555
06b
IMG_4348
IMG_4355
IMG_5065
IMG_5323
IMG_7753
IMG_3334
image_222
IMG_6824
IMG_6995
IMG_4426
IMG_4443
121_2129_IMG
121_2167_IMG
IMG_4861
IMG_8414
IMG_8424
McL_05
117_1747_IMG
IMG_4278
123_2366_IMG
123_2369_IMG
P1090758
6.Mike-Michelle-Leigh
IMG_4371
btiu-15
MG_6268
MG_6509
Steve
President-Clive
concours-4
The Barram Family's entry in the Red Bull Billycart Challenge 3463
_MG_5010 as Smart Object-1
The fastest Seven
The Green Machine
Front Line Up
IMG-0158
MG-8127
John Pearce 1991 Nissan Skyline GTR
Lakeside-sighting-laps-A-Stevens
10
unnamed-5
Photo-28-11-20-8-09-45-pm
Photo-28-11-20-8-29-28-pm
IMG_3355
Gathering-at-Eaton-Hills-gw
Start_at_the_Servo_with-_no_Coffee
fullsizeoutput_656a
Detail-of-superb-restoration
unnamed-1
M6K3158
Some_of_the_Cars_1
Deep-in-the-bush
Greg-Bray
20201220_092441
_MG_1766_gw
Peter-Boel-receives-the-Trophy-from-Bruce-Ayers
Over-3000cc-Sports-cars.-Geoff-Noble-Matt-Plowman-and-Maree-filling-in-for-Tony-Seymour
Joes car up close
IMAG5973
_MG_9681 as Smart Object-1
Packing Up
Transport-Museum-Bus
The Green Machine
Orange is the new black
IMAG6216

Recent Articles

  • Morgan Park Sprints R4
  • Kev’s Big Day Out
  • Duratec Elise – better late than never
  • Gold Rush Hill Sprint – 2022
  • Marburg Pub Run – 4 Sept 2022
  • Unique +2 Road Trip to Brisbane
  • Leyburn 2022
  • August 2022 DTC

Latest Gallery Images

20220220_093834 20220220_093818 20220220_093827 20220220_093743 20220220_093812 20220220_093730

Search articles by category

Archived articles

Lotus Club Queensland
© Lotus Club Queensland   |   Site by Black Eye Studios