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The two shaft gears did change sometime in 1956 from stamped gears to cast gears, but I’m not sure about the actual gearing itself. From what I’ve read the two types of gears are not compatible but haven’t tried it.
As far as reassembly goes, the two shaft gears at the tiller “elbow” only fit together only one way due to the large lug on one and the receiving gap on the other as fleetwin pointed out.
The remaining two options are the tiller grip assembly and the two gears that mesh at the vertical control arm. The two that mesh at the control arm can be visually inspected to see if there is misalignment.
Lastly is the tiller grip assembly. The shaft gear end fits into the friction block inside of the grip. If the “D” shaped keyed hole in the friction block is distorted, that could affect the orientation of the entire assembly.
At the end of the day, if you solve it, I’d like to hear about it.
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