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https://www.burtonpower.com/tuning-guides/tuning-guide-pages/ford-type-3-gearbox-guide.html

This should be the gearbox. A manual for any of the cars in the link should help you. If you can't find one I can easily scan a couple of pages.

I tried. I need to try again.

It seems that something came off the shift and it fell apart. I'm going to try and find a replacement in the US
This is what it looks like. The blue part pulls off, but something should be holding it in place.

Is just the part marked red that comes away or is it all of it?

The red and the green are one piece.

And they both come off. Nothing to hold them in place

It is years since I saw one of those... the red and green are one, and the flats on it were for a large spanner to fit in order to tighten the assembly into the threads on the housing, the washer with tabs on it some of them bent, is designed to stop the large blue nut from unscrewing.. If you look at the housing it screws into you may see a raised rib to the rear acting as an anchor point to bend a tab on either side of it..

The ribbed rubber acts as a spring to stop accidental engagement of reverse and is held slightly compressed by a C clip on the top of it fitting into a ring cut into the shaft . It was not uncommon for those to have damaged threads ending up with the gearstick coming adrift. I think there were different colour nuts which denoted different thread types (?) perhaps imperial or metric... And that is about as much as I can remember, I am NO expert.

That what I have, but that rubber piece is what pulled out of the cavity, just laying there. Not sure if that piece can be repaired or not

Hi PaulyG. I ave rebuilt a gearbox similar to yours. The Blue plastic circular piece ( Marked red and green ) is meant to thread into the top of the remote area of the gearbox. From past experience it can be easily cross threaded. Carefully clean the threads in the remote housing with maybe a rag catching any debris. The thread on the blue piece does not appear to be too badly damaged but clean them as well. Using a thin smear of grease try to thread the blue piece back onto the remote housing. It is difficult to get started without cross threading from memory. As Luddite mentions there is a circlip under roughly where your hand is holding the shift leaver in the top photo. That circlip retains a circular spring of increasing diameter, bigger at the blue circular plastic end. I can't remember whether it is easier to release the circlip before screwing into the remote housing. The blue piece needs to be screwed up tightly and then the lock tabs bent down to lock it in position.Hope this makes some sense.
Doug
from deep deep downunder.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/NEW-GENU...2?hash=item4458bc29de:g:O-UAAOSw2oVei36W

I've no idea what the postage would be like to you but here's a new one. All three of the Haynes manuals I have show the lever as being a single part.

Great find tmg513.. well done. Also in that image the silver "C" clip can be clearly identified as holding pressure in the assembly.

Doug, from a VERY dull memory,as you suggest the threads on the plastic "nut" are all to simple to cross thread and I suspect many will be, when I fitted the gearstick on Fords of the time, it seemed best to remove the C clip to take the pressure off the rubber spring and provide more of a feel relative to getting the threads to match the housing.

My pal ran a Cortina with the whole assembly loose, so it is possible to run that way. His car was stolen as many Cortinas were, but whoever stole it could not master the gear change and abandoned it a few streets away..(-: