John S -

Thanks for the input.  I'm going to go ahead and keep it and clean up the rough edges.  There's still a lot of surface area for the gears to mesh.  I'm ready to move ahead on getting it all back together, anyway.

Chris -

My ring gear has 40 teeth, but I guess I'm not going to be needing yours.  Since our bull pinions were different a few weeks ago when you checked, the ring gear may also be different.

Thanks.

Ronnie