picked up a gearbox last week and i've been tinkering with it today, thankfully although it has some minor damage it looks to be in good condition overall and is quite oily round the gear selectors which is a good sign, so i'd bet a pound to a pinch of salt it's full of oil.
the first job is to strip the steering brakes down and free em up and replace the seals in the slave cylinders, the layout is standard although funnily enough it has 2 leading shoes so steering won't be as good/positive in reverse but i won't loose any sleep over it. it came apart easy enough although i sheared a jacking bolt while getting the drum off (it was my fault for trying to graunch the wrong thread into it !) now i know what to expect the other side should come off without much fuss tomorrow.
after i'd finished tidying up it suddenly struck me that this was the start of the mamouth task of restoring the churchill to running condition and that they'll be many more late nights after work like this one and to be honest i enjoyed it.
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