For big gear I use the oven
 

Hi Bob

For big gears like ring gears I use the oven, 350F for 15 minutes seems to work best. Grab with clamp on pliers and drop on the flywheel. But as with the gear on the right way around.

You can preheat the gear longer if you are doing pizza.

Cheers Phil

UPS is playing dumb about the crate, when I called them the response was well sometimes we'll remove a crate and repackage if we can't get it on the truck. I think this is double speak for when we bust the crate we pretend it never had a crate and hope you don't notice. Which is kinda dumb on insured packages, you think they try and claim it was poorly packaged.


Hi Phill,

That is the reason we nicknamed them "Useless Parcel Shufflers"

Cheers,

There was and probably still is a mob in the UK calling themselves Parcel Force. This was easily corrupted into Parcel Farce which was far more apt given their miserable performance when I tried to use them.
Lousy customer service now seems to be going viral and when you get something on the other side of the ledger it zings.
I bought a five speed Clarck gearbox out of a Studebaker US6 a few years back that had suffered catastrophic failure when the winch PTO shed a tooth. The small diameter of the gear allowed for the tops of opposing teeth to try and go through together. The result was that the PTO departed the gearbox taking chunks of the gearbox casing with it.
You're a lucky man Phil.

David

With the gear out you can really see the fracture
 

Hi All

Yes, David in retrospect I was lucky the tooth fracture was such that the mesh of the teeth was maintained an it dropped clear without trying to go through between any other teeth.

What is also interesting is that the section that broke away was not on the V or shift meshing side. With the gear out the clean nature of the fracture can really be seen. I've saved the gear and tooth as a display artifact, thinking of magnetizing the the tooth so I can stick it back in position and have it stay in place.

As I said earlier the original transmission is now all reassembled gears covered in grease ready to go on the shelf as a spare. Figure as long as I have a spare already to instal I should not have any further transmission problems on any of the three CMPs. Of course that just means something else will have to cause the next problem.

Cheers

Merger
 

I hear on the grapevine that Fed Ex and UPS will merge. The new company will be named "FedUp".