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Gear house
FIXATE INTERIOR DRIVE SHAFT
BEARING
Crown wheel with mounted drive shaft bear
ings is fixated inside the gear house
1. Use the drive shaft as support by fixing
it in a vice
(a) fixate drive shaft vertically
(b) lower gear house on to the drive shaft
2. Apply plenty of grease lubricator (G)
over the crown wheel gears – see chap. 10,
"Tools"
• lower the crown wheel into the gear
house with the interior (smaller) drive
shaft bearing facing downwards
3. Gently knock interior bearing into the
gear house cast bearing seat
(c) use a mallet and cylinder (e.g. a socket
key) as means to knock inner ring of
exterior bearing into position
(d) check through the gear house pinion
hole that the bearing has sunk all the
way into its seat
CONTINUED REASSEMBLING
Continue reassembling by reversing the dis
mantling procedure from step 2, page 10.