[dieselburner]

See thread titled "Replacing input shaft" to see how I got here...

I took the new split nut back off of the fifth gear. I had to cut it off with a grinder. I managed to do it without messing up the threads on the shaft. I called up Standard Transmission and they are sending out another split nut. I now have this question to anyone who has done the fifth gear nut fix successfully. Would you use the new split nut that they are sending out or just put the original one back on? It turns out that the original one that I had on there was an upgrade from the earlier nuts and it was staked into a groove that was ground into the shaft. The nut is in really good shape except it has some dings on the edges where I beat it off with a chisel. I plan to stake whichever nut that I use. What would you do?