<div dir="ltr"><div>Very interesting! </div><div>Do you have a photo of the bearing install and do you use it with the bronze bush you installed in the Laygear?</div><div>Thanks</div><div>Glenn<br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="gmail_attr" dir="ltr">On Sun, Aug 11, 2019 at 5:53 PM Terry O’Beirne <<a href="mailto:tobeirne@skillpro.com.au">tobeirne@skillpro.com.au</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;padding-left:1ex;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span>I totally agree, the rear thrust washer can be a problem. but a hook pick and screwdriver can usually pull up the most recalcitrant of these. In extreme cases a tiny Dremel grinder can then be used
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span>In the 1970’s we mounted a die grinder in the tool-post of the lathe and then used a grinding tool in that to remove the outer shell of the bearing and then regrind the laygear to accept a bigger
bearing or a bush. Once that rear laygear bearing has started to fail, the laygear gets very hard and conventional lathe tooling wont work, even tipped tools can struggle to get thru the hard layer. Over the years, the tooling got a bit flasher but the idea
never really changed. Doing it by hand can be a disaster, because if you leave a ‘groove’ or dent in the laygear housing, a replacement shell type bearing will never last.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span>You usually can’t perform this repair with the later open cage bearings as the laygear finish and hardness wont be good enough. Its perfectly OK for a LG3 type bronze bush however…see pic below<u><u></u></u></span></p><u><u>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US"> Fot <<a href="mailto:fot-bounces@autox.team.net" target="_blank">fot-bounces@autox.team.net</a>>
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<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Fot] Triumph 4 speed O/D's and Layshaft bearing failures.<u><u></u></u></span></p><u><u>
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