09-02-2020, 01:18 PM
(This post was last modified: 09-02-2020, 01:22 PM by Andy Cawley.)
I elected to use a sealed ball race and make a spacer to fill the seal void and position the gear. The above photo shows that the mag gear does not quite align with the intermediate gear. When I attached the timing gear cover plate I found, to my cost, that the bearing that engages the cover plate sticks out too far and I managed to snap off a bit of the cover plate ( ham fisted so and so!!)
1) Did the gear originally not align with the intermediate gear? I cant see for the life of me how it could. I need to find another 3 to 4 mm.
2) I could reduce the thickness of my seal replacing spacer but this would cause even more serious misalignment of the gears.
3) I could reduce the boss on the timing gear to bring the bearing further in .
Number 3 is my favoured option but I'm a bit reluctant to modify a standard component when I don't fully understand why I should need to do it.
Can any body help and guide me or offer any other solutions?