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Originally Posted by FloRiduh
The cover was taken off and I was able to look at the sprocket, my coworker said that it has no damage on it. I'll take a look at it again though. If there is damage, it'll be noticeable in the teeth, right?
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I believe Alex was referring to any evident damage to the splines of the shaft or sprocket, as those were rubbing to each other while the output shaft was rotating when in gear but not the out of position sprocket-chain-rear wheel.
Although the steel of the shaft is harder than the steel of the sprocket, the thread at the end of the shaft could have suffered damaged as well.
Those two splines should slide respect to each other without any radial or torsional play.
Please, see these:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spline_%28mechanical%29
http://www.roymech.co.uk/Useful_Tabl...ys/Spline.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broachi...etalworking%29
