Re: 1957 Johnson 10hp and 18hp gears

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XR55

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Thank you Frank, I went into town today and stopped by the local E&J dealer to let them look at the prop shaft from the FD11 18hp outboard and new clutch dog that would not slide over the splines of the shaft. # 375711 dog, they had not had this problem but they said sometimes it went on snug. I next visited a machine shop and they thought the splines were the same. I picked up some permatex valve lapping compound. But first I had to run a file in the splines of the dog, about all that did was shine them up, but I could now at least get it started on the splines on the shaft. then I started the slow process of lapping the two parts together and after quite sometime I finally had the dog sliding freely on the shaft after washing out the compound. I also tried the dog on the shaft from a 1957 QD 10hp and it did not bind up. Great quality new OEM part.