Gearbox pinion shaft bearing replacement...

[Eric Sanborn]

Jim Dupree wrote:

>The tools to measure
>the back lash can be improvised but I don't know how one would improvise the
>pinion depth measurement tools.
>  
>
The company I work for has a sister plant in Germany that makes spiral 
bevel and helical gearboxes.  Our guys in the shop occationally do 
repair work on the units.  They use a marking grease to see the 
engagement depth.  You paint it on one side and then run the gears 
against each other by hand.  Then you look at the pattern the grease 
makes and review the charts to you can tell which direction things need 
to be shimmed.  This is done in connnection with measuring backlash.

Jim do you think this would work for us shade tree guys with less equipment?

-- 
Eric Sanborn
'85 4ktq

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