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Originally Posted by pestobanana
Removal of those teeth is related to AoE and has absolutely nothing to do with pre-engagement.
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Nope he is actually right. By shaving the 4th (3rd after the pic up) I was effectively using the tip of the sector gear tooth to push the piston far enough for the 5th (4th after the pic up) to mesh. In doing so the pic up tooth was cut/notched out allowing the piston to travel forward then the seccond tooth on the sector grabbed the pic up and started to slip again until at some point the piston got pushed far enough back while slipping forward to jam the 5th sector gear tooth into the 5th piston tooth jamming the whole thing up.
I didn't take a pic but you could see how it was jammed when I opened it. The piston was slightly draw back. The sector first tooth was half way up the notch I the pic up tooth and the 5th tooth of the sector was slicing the 5th tooth of the piston off. That is why I posted my question because I could see it wasn't PE but everyone got all up in arms swearing it was PE so I was left ti deduce my own reason. After further looking, and you can easily try this at home with an old piston and sector gear, shaving the first two teeth is fine. The third not so much. The fourth and there just isn't enough pic up tooth depth to draw the piston far enough back for the other teeth to connect simple, stoopid on my part, but that's exactly what happened. Shave 3 1/2 teeth off an old piston and then try to mesh a sector gear with it. Works great until about the 3rd tooth then you can see that it's not structureally sound.