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Monkeh

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9th Jul, 2010 at 10:06:51pm

im just rebuilding my gearbox and am at the stage where im checking the idler endfloat, and have measured it at .014". I have a selection of thrust washers but they are all the same thickness, and the gasket is the minispares one at .032" compressed.
SO, my question is.. is it super critical that the enfloat be what it says in the book? (between 3 and 8 thou - although this is for helical gears) all my gears are straight cut (its been running like this for a while but we havent been on track much yet).
secondly, if it really does need to be less, does anyone have any a-plus thrust washers thicker than the standard .132"?

BENROSS

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10th Jul, 2010 at 10:52:09am

all the diffrence is is a quieter sound with btm limits 0.003"

it will just be a shade louder
your better going to the btm limit
try minispares for thicker thrust washers






miniminor63

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10th Jul, 2010 at 01:44:08pm

or use a genuine green gasket. that helps lots!

Monkeh

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Lichfield

10th Jul, 2010 at 01:56:56pm

whats the compressed thickness on one of those? and are they available on their own?

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11th Jul, 2010 at 10:42:22pm

Miniminor is correct. Get the genuine Rover gasket.

On 13th Jul, 2012 Ben H said:
Mine gets in the way a bit, but only when it is up. If it is down it does not cause a problem.
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