Triumph Stag 'Borg Warner 35' to the Rescue!

Hi guys, welcome back to farewell, I'm TR Tony, I'm sitting on a motorway service somewhere near Southampton, the day is Tuesday, we've had the wonderful weekend experience with you it's 5 9 1s coming back from King's Lynn and you saw the The journey home was quite difficult, but as you know, we managed to get the car back to classic, so I was talking to Paul and it turns out that we think the gearbox actually disappeared, whether due to lack of fuel, due to a large pond, due to lack of oil. the casing or what we're not really sure about, but it looks like it needs a refurbishment, which is understandable.

I guess if you think about it, because the car sat for 12 years before we swapped it for the m11, it probably didn't do any good. Anyway, the good news is that at first I was a little worried because we thought it was a box of swamp water 65 that should be in the car because it was quite late and that was our first impression, but it turns out that when Paul took the gearbox yesterday Monday after leaving the car on Saturday. Do you remember we left it on the way back home? Turns out there was a BorgWarner 35 in there, which is absolutely fantastic news because all the plumbing has been altered and done. whatever and it's a good option for a BW 35, not a 65, which I mean means it's great news for us because if you remember, about six months ago we asked Andy to come to the clutch and give us an exchange unit for our BW thirty. -five off our 49M uny car, so we've actually had a full rebuilt service and we're looking forward to using BorgWarner $35 in our garage for six months, so long story short, it makes a lot of sense to use that box right now to make the repair. save a few quid here right now and then obviously when the gearbox comes back from Paul, the old one from ues, then we can use it to trade it back to Andy and get another box for uny to sort through when he finally gets back in the La road is a very clever plan, but I'm sure it will lead to great things, so I stopped on the N 27 and now, on the way to Paul's, I have the gearbox in the back, which I will show in a second. and we'll see what we can see up there and we'll see that it always gets along well with the car.

He's been through a lot, so I think there are some little hiccups that he was also working out while he was there. He made sense to do it, hopefully. We're going to get the car back on Friday and Saturday, so we'll share that trip with you as well when it happens. Okay, let's take a look at the gearbox and I'll show you what our gearbox looks like and we'll ignore the noise. traffic noise from the m27 or just twist it around the back of the mixi actually dukakis comes loose I'm really going to miss it when it's gone we have to replace it soon but anyway under this mat here at the back you can see that Arianne died Last night he managed to get the BorgWarner 35 gearbox out of the garage.

It weighs quite a bit and this is the kit that Andy in Wales made for us. He specializes in BorgWarner boxes that are world-renowned for their reliability and what he does is recognize. the old ones and we completely put them back together inside and out, you can't see there, but there is actually a hidden torque converter reinforced with some wood, there we go, so now good news will appear to pause and see what we can do. With this I guess I'm going to be on a back but apparently we'll see the difference if you want to know well, born at 65 as a bridle, here the BorgWarner 35 has serrations where it enters the propeller housing, so if If any Maybe you want to know, this is how you can easily tell a difference.

I guess you could tell the difference by the code on the side here for you to look at, it can state it closely, but apparently that's the difference, so the BorgWarner 35 is fluted as you can see here. a BorgWarner 65 has flanges like the manual gearbox from the other pop shop, so if you ever want to know, like I say, that's the difference, he's done a good job honey, I read the deer and here we are. Red Hill Pharma, hope of the deer classics and our Eve is fine, we have reached the state classics and you es5 nine 1 is on the ramp as we speak.

Just had a quick chat with Paul and basically the car is good, a few little things to look at like the exhaust has a little knock simply because these pipes are not pushed forward enough so they will work waiting for a little differential leak. You can see it there, but let's take a look at that and then move forward so the gearbox itself, as you can see, is now on the outside, it's not necessarily more vertical with the engine that's structurally fine looks good, it's nice. , really cool, I'm there, it's over here, the gearbox is already off. 35 is going to be replaced with the torque converter as well and um, like we were saying, it doesn't look like it's been redone in that long, but it obviously hasn't been taken care of, which is why it failed over the weekend, but we'll replace the box with ours like we said. but the overall suspension looks good, clean and tidy, it's not too corroded either, so the base looks good, we think it was probably an inky yellow at some point like a hint of yellow fight, you can almost see that on Dark here but overall Paul says I've got a good car and we should get back on the road in due time, just wander under again and then come back here and he said the driver's doors were fixed, now they don't open and they close and generally come together so good job good job it's not a chance get out but we hope that will be fine again very soon thanks Pete so just looking at the outside we dropped it a little bit on the ramps and all in all we are getting the The seat backs are done, so they will be replaced before we bring them back, so the driver's door was a little tight, as we know, and The driver's door handle had to be replaced because the thing had been tin and it wasn't.

Well done, but here we go, everything has been sorted, so they are doing a brilliant job and we are on target to continue on Saturday. It will not be an exciting day, this will be a well-ordered free time. Get a flat. I'm very happy. The guys are doing a fantastic job. The engine looks very good to drive. Apparently you are sweeter than the night. And yesterday you also reviewed it. What Pete is going to do. We'll head to some Hampton. to sort out the phones also for work, okay, so quite a full car, as you can see on Paul, so he's a very busy man and he notices some cars being towed in the garage, as well as ours, now look, this is the old box Now we're back, so we'll take this to Andy in his own time.

Pete is just making sure we don't lose the torque converter otherwise I have it all over the back of the car and then they offer to take it apart. the seat foams all the way to Henry Street and Sampson and while I'm making calls who makes the seats so we'll fix it on the way back to save us a trip down and it should be fine hopefully by Friday Saturday we'll be back here and then we'll do it we will collect Fingers crossed guys, that's very good news. Paul and the group on the case, with Pete's head inside the hood, we also found a blow-off manifold, so we'll do that and make sure everything is okay, other than a small fuel leak. from the bottom so I'm not quite sure where that's coming from, it could mean we'll have to see a new gas tank but at least we're doing all the safety stuff now and it's not neat,

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It'll be very soon. I will now head to Henry Street in Southampton. Paul is going to do who's in charge of reefing the deer seats, so to speak, that trip, like I said, I'll take them off now and leave them for you to get. done and we're all on target, fingers crossed, strapped to the fuel tanks, everything else is good for Saturday morning to come pick up, so obviously I'll film it and show you what's going on in that moment, but thanks for sharing it really is great We have you with us, don't forget to like, share and subscribe, and if you don't have a badge of honor yet, feel free to click on our website, download it and you can get it for free , we will send it to you. one in the post so that's all for now see you online on air be it very soon best guys cheers for now we're excited.