Reply To: OMC Shifter Cog

[fisherman6]

Dale,
Apparently the option to quote a post is temporarily out of service like the highlighting of unread posts and topics. Anyway, I’m not too confident in rebuilding the drive dogs with weld. Those gears and clutch dogs are hardened alloy steel. Not sure how a mild steel wire or rod would alloy with that part to begin with. if it did, you would lose the hardness and be left with a soft(er) part which would almost certainly not stand up to the task.

I have not tried it yet, but I think you would be better off grinding the mating surfaces back some to get rid of most or all of the rounding on the clutch dog and the gear drive cogs to match. it may be a tedious process to make it right as you would have to take care and time to use marking fluid and even out the surfaces from side to side to get them as close to even as possible. It would take some time and a steady hand, but I would imagine the hardness of those heat treated gears would be to a sufficient depth to allow enough material to be removed to get good surfaces back. Just a lot of work to get it back to good when good parts are still out there. I may try it sometime just to prove to myself I can do it.
-Ben

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