The drive, driven and belt pieces arrived today; exactly as promised and on schedule, well packaged.
Unfortunately, my optimism about simply taking off the old Series 20 pieces, installing the new ones, a little adjustment and tighten it all down, was misplaced to say the least.
Neither the drive nor the driven units will 'bolt right up'. I will have to pack up and make a trip to a town with a hardware store to buy an assortment of washers/spacers to go on the two 3/4" shafts to allow the drive and driven units to be tightened down and aligned to each other. Although the new units look a lot like the original ones, there are differences as to the thickness of the units and where they wind up on their shafts compared to the original. And although I don't know the difference, the new driven unit looks like it might operate opposite to the way the old one did/does. What a shame; I was hoping to have my friend's kids riding this weekend.
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