Reply To: Johnson JW-16 3 hp This and That

[Buccaneer]

billw wrote:

I admire the will of many in the club to do walk-arounds to solve problems. Sometimes I do them, too. The milling machine sure adds a lot of potential. So that being said, I feel like a kind of Negative Nellie but I am concerned about how the pinion gear is going to hold squarely on the shaft, with the old o-ring groove in it. In a three, the drive shaft is held square by the shaft, not a bearing. The only things the gear housing does for the pinion is have a bushing to stop upward movement of pinion and hold the drive shaft laterally. I’d also be worried about the groove damaging the bushing, depending where that groove ends up running.

The best equation ever written is Time=Money. In this case, YOUR time equals HIS money. $100 for a brand, spanking new drive shaft really isn’t that bad. I’ll shut up now.

Bill, I’ll recheck this morning before I do any machining on the shaft,
but I think the o-ring groove is not riding in the bushing, but yet
high enough from the end, where the pinion gear will have lots
of contact area on the splines.
Thanks for mentioning.

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