As I'm sure some have figured out I am in the middle of fixing up the 4 speed in my '85 Softail.
Reading thru the FSM about installing bearings in the counter shaft gear the manual indicated to use HD tool #34733 to set the depth of the bearing. The question is does anyone have the dimensions for said tool? I was going to measure the depth that the old bearings were installed and use that dimension to build an installation tool. The thing is the pic of the tool in the FSM looks like it would seat the bearing significantly deeper on one side than the other, and there is only about a .010 difference between the bearings that are in the counter shaft gear right now.
Is the depth that the bearings are seated a crucial issue or what? Watching the video series that jcrubin made on the subject here
He seemed to just press the bearings in until they bottomed out on the shoulders in the bore inside of the CS gear.
As I've mentioned before this is my first Harley trans. so I want to make sure that I'm doing this the RIGHT way.
Any help is greatly appreciated.
Thank you
Mark
Reading thru the FSM about installing bearings in the counter shaft gear the manual indicated to use HD tool #34733 to set the depth of the bearing. The question is does anyone have the dimensions for said tool? I was going to measure the depth that the old bearings were installed and use that dimension to build an installation tool. The thing is the pic of the tool in the FSM looks like it would seat the bearing significantly deeper on one side than the other, and there is only about a .010 difference between the bearings that are in the counter shaft gear right now.
Is the depth that the bearings are seated a crucial issue or what? Watching the video series that jcrubin made on the subject here
He seemed to just press the bearings in until they bottomed out on the shoulders in the bore inside of the CS gear.
As I've mentioned before this is my first Harley trans. so I want to make sure that I'm doing this the RIGHT way.
Any help is greatly appreciated.
Thank you
Mark
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