Re: Pinion gear restore

["Mark Price" <mprice@xxxxxxxxxx>]

I once made similar threads useable on a prop shaft for and Outboard boat. I went to sears and bought their fine set of jeweller type files and sat and filed and cleaned things up till the new nut I bought would thread on. Then I used Bearing loctite, or was it Thread restore? Torqued to spec and it worked fine.
  If the threads are totally stripped off you are done.
This repair will likely be a one time deal too. As the next time you remove the nut the remaining threads will come with it.
  Your mileage will vary!

Mark Price
 Oct 2004 12:35:30 -0400

>Hope someone can help here. I have a set of 3:54 gears that has some damage
>to the threads on the pinion. Has anyone had a similar situation and fixed
>this? If so, how? Because of it's hardened state, I am assuming it may be a
>lost cause. Thanks for any help.
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>Gary N
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