Recon to gearbox ...

The rebuild and refurb of the engine has progressed in recenrt weeks, with the main jobs being the reconditioning of the gearbox and the removal of the cylinder heads so that they can be cleaned and refurbished.  The gearbox on my J3 is the steel on steel type ... some come with ferodo lining on the facings ... and the work has involved putting new chains within the gearbox which hopefully will last a long time into the future!  The output shaft from the gearbox has also been machined back to the original size (which I believe is 1 and five-eighths of an inch), as in the attached photograph:



The small sprocket in the photograph is, of course, used to connect - by chain - to the forward and reverse gearwheel which will be at the back for the steerer (connected via a rod and rack and pinion).