833 pro shift rings.
Years ago I installed Toploader faceplate parts in some Saginaws. Basically split the Toploader sliders in the lathe and welded that to the side of the Saginaw sliders. Mig welded with a skipping tack weld arrangement, with air blast cooling in between welds to maintain the heat treat on the lug surfaces. As you can imagine we broke quite a few Saginaw gears over the couple of years we were doing it, wasn't that hard to salvage the faceplate parts for installing on replacement gears. Regular .035 mig wire with co2 shield works just fine, never had a problem.
Currently use the same method on my Faceplated Toploader gears, never a problem with the process. Here's part of a split faceplate that's been mig welded to the 2nd gear side of a non faceplate 1/2 slider (wanted to keep 1st gear synchro), this one went into my current Toploader...
Grant
Years ago I installed Toploader faceplate parts in some Saginaws. Basically split the Toploader sliders in the lathe and welded that to the side of the Saginaw sliders. Mig welded with a skipping tack weld arrangement, with air blast cooling in between welds to maintain the heat treat on the lug surfaces. As you can imagine we broke quite a few Saginaw gears over the couple of years we were doing it, wasn't that hard to salvage the faceplate parts for installing on replacement gears. Regular .035 mig wire with co2 shield works just fine, never had a problem.
Currently use the same method on my Faceplated Toploader gears, never a problem with the process. Here's part of a split faceplate that's been mig welded to the 2nd gear side of a non faceplate 1/2 slider (wanted to keep 1st gear synchro), this one went into my current Toploader...
Grant
