Hi guys, happy Easter to everyone.
I spent a little more time working on the head today. It took much longer than it should have since I don't have any sort of guide to tell me how to take things apart. But hopefully this thread will help others with future head tear downs.
So picking up where I left off I removed the gears.
The gears all came out easily, I just pulled them all put by hand once the cover was off.
Next up was the downfeed mechanism... I spent way to long trying to figure out how to get the spindle out and finally determined I needed to take this apart first. The next issue was getting the cover off... it seemed like it would not come off and I wanted to be carful not to break anything. After spending way too long delicately playing with it I used a pry bar and it came off no problem.
Here is the order of components:
This part has a grove that the coiled up spring sits into...
I couldn't quite figure out how to get the rest of this mechanism out yet... so I will come back to it next time.
Next up was the spindle, basically I was able to push it all the way down and out (took some force near the end of its travel).
The spindle itself spins very smooth and easily so I will leave it alone.
If anyone has any tear down tips for removing the remaining parts in the head please let me know.
Can't wait to get it all apart so I can priperly clean out all that nasty/ sticky yellow grease.