MV Tooth Extraction, at Weare Rally - Transmission Problems

[Phil Waterman]

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