That sounds like some good news!
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Great news DE!
Bulldozers are a lot more fun than lathes anyway.
Pete
Just a quick Google search away, just determine what pitches you need:True. I should get myself a set.
Well, since you're soliciting.... I'd clean it up and use it. Most ring and pinions can be shimmed to adjust contact area. As a guess, I'd say you could shim that so the damage isn't in the contact area.I have feelers out soliciting opinions on whether or not I can live with the ring gear in that condition.
Or........keep the lathe and sell your wife’s car!
That's what I'm hoping for. If I do that and it defecates in the sleeping apparatus later, I am NOT taking this sucker back apart!
This time will be different...
I agree with him. Back when I was a kid who couldn't even afford to change his mind, I had a Mustang with a whine and leak in the rear end. Pulled the cover and the ring a pinion gears looked worse than yours. Replaced the cover gasket to fix the leak and figured as soon as I could afford it, I'd get a junk yard rear end and swap 'em out. 2 yrs later I sold the Mustang with the same whiny rear end still under it.A mechanic whom I trust implicitly said "file off the rough spots and put 'er back together!" He said he did that on a GMC Astro road tractor 20 years ago and it's still running.
Well, hell.
A mechanic whom I trust implicitly said "file off the rough spots and put 'er back together!" He said he did that on a GMC Astro road tractor 20 years ago and it's still running.
I'ma still wait for a price as I need bearings and such anyway, but if Larry says it's good to go, I'm a believer.
Hahahahaha!!! It'll break on the farthest part of the property from the garage! That's where the tractor always runs out of gas. Then ya gotta walk back, and schlepp the gas can out to it.... (I thought I had enough fuel to finish the lawn!...)Where would it break on you ?