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Re: Laygear

To: "Larry Vaughan" <lvaughan@pldi.net>
Subject: Re: Laygear
From: doug@dougbraun.com
Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2005 16:56:39 -0500
About the one with the blunt reverse teeth:  Try taking the reverse idler gear 
and
seeing if its teeth mesh with the blunt teeth.  I suspect they might not mesh 
well, and
would chew each other up.

Doug Braun
'72 Spit

At 03:14 PM 1/23/2005 -0600, you wrote:
>I got some good pics of the two laygears I bought on Ebay. The new camera
>helps. I think the new laygear may be a reject or just unfinished. Matthews
>Parts has offered a new laygear lately, on Ebay. The starting price was 90.00,
>double what I paid previously, but it looked more finished in the reverse gear
>teeth area, pretty much like my used laygear. Someone look at the pics and
>tell me if I should use the questionable laygear in a transmission rebuild.
>http://ljvaughan.homestead.com/Laygear.html





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