3/4" drill bit is all it takes.
William J. Rice wrote:
>
> Jim,
> I never got around to fixing it--it's still far too shallow to allow use
> when the nut is on the mainshaft--which is, of course, the only time it's
> really very useful.
>
> This is tranny work--since I swapped transfer cases I've had no end of
> problems w/ that mainshaft getting loose. Due to the locations of the
> tabs on the special washer I've never been able to make it terribly
> tight--both times I needed to back it off a bit from "chisel tight" to
> get one of the tabs to line up w/ one of the gaps in the nut. Both times
> it's loosened--when I pulled it off last week it had actually broken both
> of the locating teeth off of the washer and gotten loose. So, I figure
> that the tranny's probably not really healthy now (symptoms were BAD
> vibrations and lots of popping out of 3rd and 4th) and so I'll sling in
> the other tranny and t-case I have, after putting on the BRAND NEW
> synchro I just got from Blanchard (30 UKP vs. $150 from RN).
>
> b
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