Hey all,
Here is the wear smeg was refering to... a whopping 1.1mm gap was found between the 3/4th drive gear fork & groove... we swapped out the fork for the 3rd/4th drive gear, the gear itself and top drive gear for good measure too. I see the pics you put up show the driven gears as opposed to the drive gears Doug...?
-Should have taken a look at the tolerences on the selector shaft too me thinks!
-Oh the misery after bolting her all together again, hearing her fire up nicely, only to find that same, mildy irritating "I'm not gonna let you play in 3rd today" fault.
Thanks to the sharkinsmeg for his help and marvelous dislpay of tea-drinking capabilities while getting to this stage in the learning process...
Regards... Beeeeev.