Re: (ET) Skipping steering

["John B Reinhard" <reinharj frontiernet net>]

A previous owner added some heavy duty springs to pull steering shaft and
gear toward the gear it meshes with, on one of my E-20's.
It works MUCH better than my other E-20, which has gears that slip every
time you turn the steering wheel, when snowblower is mounted.

I will look at custom washers to fix the second E-20, since I have a 
variety
of the electrical conduit punchouts you mention.

Can it be done with less disassembly ?  ( I tried a variety of things on 
the
bad E-20 years ago, before I got the other one, and saw how that fix was
implemented).

Anyone else tried this (the custom made washers) yet ?


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Pieter" <pvcl plitch com>
To: "Christopher Zach" <czach computer org>; "RJ Kanary"
<rjkanary nauticom net>
Cc: <Elec-trak cosmos phy tufts edu>
Sent: Monday, November 15, 2004 4:32 PM
Subject: Re: (ET) Skipping steering


> I have heard that some of the electrical conduit punch-outs will produce
> perfectly sized washer shims for ElecTrak steering repairs.  Haven't 
> tried
> it yet.
>