| Kettle Custodian (pot stirrer) Joined: Feb 2004 Posts: 29,803 | When checking the tooth contact pattern it's best to have a little drag on the pinion flange. Have someone wrap an old fan belt or a heavy leather belt around the dust slinger on the flange and grip it tightly while you run the blued teeth on the ring gear back and forth past the pinion- - - -vigorously! The wipe pattern on the teeth will be much more pronounced that way. Putting a piece of broom stick through the spider gear pivot hole is a good way to rock the ring gear back and forth. Jerry
"It is better to be silent and be thought a fool than to speak and eliminate all doubt!" - Abraham Lincoln Cringe and wail in fear, Eloi- - - - -we Morlocks are on the hunt! There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self. - Ernest Hemingway Love your enemies and drive 'em nuts!
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