Yeah, I had mine out several times before the aggregated fixes kept it working. I have probably just jinxed myself. Stephen Mobile > On Jun 22, 2018, at 12:27 PM, Edward Maglott <emaglott3@GMAIL.COM> wrote: > > 1986 with AT > > Been in there twice before getting the plastic gear secured, this time it > was the gray metal one slipping on the other end of the same shaft. I > really didn't want to take the plastic gear off since I finally got it > secured on the previous repair. I had also made a stop so that it or the > whole shaft couldn't slide out in that direction. > > So I slid that shaft back just enough that I could get the gray metal gear > out of there. I put in in a vise and peened those collars around the shaft > hole on both sides of the gear. when I went to slide the shaft back > through it, it was very tight. I ended up using the vise to press it back > in! I used a small socket to back up the plastic housing the shaft goes > through and turns in. That went OK and the gear is on there tight. > > The other thing I did this time was to rig up a way to test the speedo/odo > off the van. I used a length of wire that fit in the place where the > speedo cable goes and put the other end in a drill. That registered about > 70mph on the speedo and I could check that all the gears were turning > properly. If I had done that the previous time I probably would have found > that the gray metal gear was not secure on the shaft. > > Edward |
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