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Do you have a micrometer or dial caliper or some way to get an accurate measurement of the pins? Someone may have the real OMC replacement parts, but if.you have a metal supply shop anywhere near you, you should be able to get stainless and brass round stock in the diameters you need and just cut them to length and deburr the ends and put them back in. If you don’t have any place to get the stock, let me know the sizes of the pins and I’ll make you new ones. 😉
-Ben
I do have a dial caliper. My reloading benches have been converted to outboard benches and tools like the caliper have lain idle for quite some time.
The shear pin is .13 in diameter and approx .862 in length (its kinda “S” shaped). The gear pin is .13 diameter and .725 long I assume. .725 is the diameter of the gear at that point.
My reloading bencheck is separate from my outboard work area. It has been idle for a while too though. 😕
Let me know if you are going to need some pins made. I’m guessing that 1/8" stock will work for the gear pin (steel) and certainly for the shear pin (brass). The gear pin may need to be smacked with a cold chisel to create the groove needed to retain it. Or try buying a groove pin from McMaster-Carr as Frank suggested.
-Ben
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