Thread: LT 95 Overdrive

No one had a play with the insides of their overdrives??

Sigh, I am not a great example as mine was noisy.
The greatest wear area in a Fairey LT95 is the bearings between the inner and outer shaft. There are AFAIR 2 sets of needle rollers and these wear into the shaft inside surface. ( brinneling)
My Czech engineer friend was able to locate roller bearings at CBC AFAIR that were caged with their own outer track and exactly the same OD and ID.
The other big wear area is the thrust washer at the base of the shafts. Again my friend turned up a thrust washer from that oily bush brass stuff.

The actual bearings inside the Fairey are LT95 gearbox bearings so easily obtainable, but probably are not worn out. Unless the gears are damaged, that is about all you can do, and of course if the gears are damaged then you cannot get new ones.
However most of the problems are caused by the little bearings in the input and output shafts.
I had a schematic about 20 years ago, but it really doesn't help as you cannot get bits anyway AFAIK.

Regards Philip A

Thanks Philip - I guess anything is possible. From what you say the main issue is the brindling of the shaft - as you indicated replacing the bearing with one that has its own inner race might be the go.

As I said just starting to get noisy in O/D but OK when not engaged. When I put my Hi speed transfer case gears in I might pull the O/d out and have a play.

Cheers

Garry