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I saw this gilmer drive shaft on e-bay earlier this morning, and I believe it has the clutch. It’s much cheaper than converting to the poly-v drive which, if I remember correctly, is close to $400 if you bought all new parts. I have bought parts from this seller before.

https://www.ebay.com/itm ...

One of the upsides of changing to the poly-v drive is that you can then easily upgrade to the dual bearing quill.


Thank you all for the advice!
If I do change to the Poly-V belt drive sleeve, do I need to do anything else to the quill or headstock? Or is it kind of an easy swap? I am not ready ...

JPG I am not aware of any other bearings used in a Mark 5 quill. The quill IS different on the splines.

A failing loop can be caused by insufficient lubrication of both movable sheaves or too aggressively adjusting the speed upward.

The purpose of the loop is NOT to pull the control sheave, but ...

Hi all,
I just got my hands on an old Mark V Greenie and I just started my teardown to clean, rebuild and get it back up and running. BUT I need some help with finding some parts! This is the first time I have done this.
I have one question and some help finding a couple parts.
First, might sound ...