cod 116 #1 Posted October 26, 2013 Is there any way to tell what the cam plate and cam for controlling a hydro transmission are made of?? I suspect they are both made of steel but are they mild steel or stainess. I ask because I recently purchased a new cam plate and in comparing it to the old one, the slot that the cam follows is approxiamtely 1/32 larger on the old cam plate. While changing the plate I noticed that the cam itself had a groove on one side and it lokked like someone had tried to fill it with silver solder of some type of brazing. Being overly fussy about these things I decided to make a new cam from a piece of stainless steel ( hoping that it would be more wear resistant ) to replace the worn one and for some reason the stainless seems to almost stick to the cam plate when I try to slide it along the slot even though I've got about 0.005" of clearance. I've been looking online to see if it might have been better to use a piece of mild steel instead but I haven't found a definative answer. Needless to say any advice or info would be greatly appreciated as I'd rather not ruin the new cam plate by using a stainless cam. Thanks - Cod Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
