VANDEE97vmax4
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heres the skinny. Last year I had found out that I forgot to put oil in the engine gear box the previous year(ya i know dumb@@@) good thing I hadn't put very many miles on (so I thought or was hoping) just a few hundred. Well I added the oil ran it last year about the same but it was really starting to clader when strarting. I had come to the conclusion that it was the clutch making all the racket because it was going away past idle. i thought I would dig into the clutch before I go tomorrow and make sure that it was the clutch. Nope the gear box is full of pieces of metal and burnt smelling gear oil. I have the primary shaft out and unbolted. the two gears and the absorbers are where the metal is coming from. I could move the one side three teeth compared to the one next to it. How much back and forth movement should there be if any? The gears on the crank look good. the gears on the front shaft show some wear very minimal so do I dare replace just the absorbers or should I replace the gears on the front shaft as well? they are very expensive. o ya how are the two gears on the crank shaft suposed to be indexed when I put it back together? thanks for any advice.
I went back out to look and found that the pieces of metal are nothing more than the destroyed absorber from that side gear. The wear on the gears looks more like the 9000 miles worth of abuse. Has anyone had this happen before?
I went back out to look and found that the pieces of metal are nothing more than the destroyed absorber from that side gear. The wear on the gears looks more like the 9000 miles worth of abuse. Has anyone had this happen before?
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