That worked, I now have the screw lined up to come out and got called to lunch (I never miss lunch). To make a tool I hammered the end of a welding rod (1109) square, finished with a file and used a drill motor to move the rail.
The square (without measuring) seems to be about the size of a speedometer cable end but I don't have an old one to try. I am going to shape my welding rod into a crank and not use the drill motor. It also turns out that two of the three motors have the square hole exposed, but the fore/aft motor does not so I inserted my tool into the driven gear square to make the move. I plan to drill a hole in the motor frame to cure that problem. Until I reassemble, I don't know if you can crank the motors with the motor frame fastened to the side rails or not, I have them loose right now so I can move it all around. I'll post my findings. Harry Watkins Newton, MS 86 SDL Silver 85 300D Euro 86 SDL Gold 81 240D manual trans ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kaleb C. Striplin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On the opposite side of the motors from where the cable comes out is a > port that will accept a square bit. You can use that to turn the motors > manually. > > Harry Watkins wrote: > > > Kaleb wrote: > > > > "OR, you can just stick the > > proper drill bit in the special port on the motor just for the purpose of > > manually moving it back at forth." > > > > Tell me more, in my case right now, this would solve my problem. I need to > > be able to move the driven gear rail about two inches in order to get a > > center screw out. However, after that its still a guess. > > > > You really don't mean a drill bit, do you?
