Well......if I had your prices I would not hesitate buying Eaton True Track, but I live in Sweden and with shippingcost and taxes it will cost me around 1000 dollar. But....your advice force me to reconsider what to do.
Hey, any that you get that needs machining that you don't want, send it to me. I'll gladly machine it and use it! What usually happens to these things once they start single tracking is people have a tendency to lean on them more trying to make it lock up. That's not going to happen but what usually happens is it trashes the spiders and cross shaft and that usually ruins it for good. I've heard of some repairing the case halves when the cross shaft spins but man, that ain't worth it. I've run 'repaired' unit for many years afterward and I don't drive all that easy....
Thanks, I think I will give it a try,they are really easy to take apart anyhow. When you shave them the first time without shimming, how much do you take? Would you shave them both, even if one of them look like new?
The side that looks like new could be 10 miles away from bottoming out. That's why I mentioned to use some clay to check how much clearance it has. Roll up a couple of 5 or 6mm balls and stick em into the case and then lay the cone into place. You don't even have to put anything else together. Just tap the cone down into place with a hammer handle and then pull the cone out. The clay will tell you how much it has left. The clay could be paper thin telling you it doesn't have much left to go. They usually wear fairly evenly and the one that's already bottomed just did it recently. I usually get them well after bottoming and they are usually showing signs of slipping all across the face. .025 to .030 is what I take off of them..... 0,7 mm is fine.
Thanks for helping me. I am a bit confused over the shim. I have seen pictures on internet were the shim is placed over the gear but when you tell me the purpose is to put gears back together again...the shim must be placed between gear and cup?
Yes I´m interested. I have been at my local partsdealer today, trying to find shims but I didn´t find any.
I live in a small town and it takes time to get parts so I did my own in stainless steel. I hope they are hard enough?
Well...a friend of me helped me with the machining so it cost me nothing.
I do not know what grade of stainless it is.It was just a piece I found with the right thickness. It was austenitkind because there was no magnetism on it.
