Kicker gear ramp wear

I took the cover off and found the ramps to be damaged-dented

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Kicker gear ramp wear

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I have only a few hundred miles on a kicker gear, clutch gear replacement I did on a '64 FL 4 speed. I took the cover off and found the ramps to be damaged-dented, probably more than the old gear I replaced. Is there something I might have overlooked? If I recall I set the clutch gear a distance from the trans housing- is there anything else I should look at?

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Please explain:
"I set the clutch gear a distance from the trans housing"
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Is this part a made buy our litlle yellow friends, from across the big pond. then this might exsplane your prob. had the same thing from V-TWINGE.!!! MBSKEAM these parts are not heat treated right.
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Re: Kicker gear ramp wear

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I suspect that Uncle Floyd is turning over in his grave, again.

Can anyone find anything similar to the Clymer passage in a real manual?
(My books are at the shop, where the internet ain't allowed to go.)

"....above the transmission housing gasket surface" doesn't even make sense to me, since the shaft is horizontal. It seems likely that the taper may easily be overtorqued by trying to accomplish a typographical error.
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HD Manual reads:
"Be careful not to draw down (starter clutch) nut too tight. Don't go beyond a point where top of starter clutch is less than 5/8 in. above edge of gear box."
Any tighter than that and you could crack the clutch.
What all did you replace when you rebuilt? Hopefully more than just the gears, yes?
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Re: Kicker gear ramp wear

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Page 280 of the Clymer panhead manual:
"Tighten the starter clutch nut until the top of the starter clutch is 5/8 in. above the transmission housing gasket surface."
That what you mean?
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Re: Kicker gear ramp wear

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Hello. I only replaced all the parts associated with the kicker- gears, bushing, throwout finger, spring. Yes- the 5/8 dimension is the setting I refered to.
I'm thinking if that setting is wrong, and the gear is ourward, then it doesn't allow the kicker gear ramps to come free??
Or I suppose the ramps could be soft.....I got the part from Old dude- didn't come with any tags or marks- but I don't think it was HD either...........

Thanks for the help.
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