Metal in quick change

[merc123]

Found metal in my Jones brand quick change. Not sure where it could come from though and it has an allen head to it. Only internal damage is it looks like it got caught around the cast cone around the pinion gear but that's it. Nothing on the pinion or ring gear is hurt.

Only place I can find it may have come from is a around the fill hole on the top side. The brass/gold looking part is the actual fill hole part. Not sure if someone tried to repair something or what. Looks like weld splatter close to it but could just be the casting. Whatcha think?

[Egoracing]

Do your axles still have the washers on the ends?

[racin6mod]

on some qc rearend the left bell has a bronze wear/thrust plate that wears against the back side of the ring gear. it is held on by two counter sunk allen bolts and 5/16 in size. might be something to look into.

[Graff Spee]

I would check the axle free play before you start eating tube ends! Looks like a axle center bolt.

[merc123]

Do your axles still have the washers on the ends?

Which end? Neither has washers.

on some qc rearend the left bell has a bronze wear/thrust plate that wears against the back side of the ring gear. it is held on by two counter sunk allen bolts and 5/16 in size. might be something to look into.

Didnt think about that. I wil check.

I would check the axle free play before you start eating tube ends! Looks like a axle center bolt.

Nope, both have their bolts in them.

[Reddirt]

Looks like one of the bolts that hold the ring gear to the spool.

[Egoracing]

Looks like one of the bolts that hold the ring gear to the spool.

I was trying to think of where they would have used a large flat allen head bolt but could not remember where I say them. Now that you said that I remembered that it was on a Gleason center section and it was on the ring gear.

[merc123]

I checked the ring gear/spool. The spool actually has flat head bolts. I checked the part that goes against the ring gear to keep it "aligned" or whatever it does, and it's a solid piece. This has no adjustment at all like some of them.

I haven't the slightest where this could have came from. The only thing I can think of now is that MAYBE when I had the axle tube replaced, because it took a hard lick into the wall, that maybe something in that tube was a part of this piece and it went down the tube. Who knows. At least it's out now. Thanks for the suggestions though. Not a whole lot too a quick change.