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Message: <blockquote data-quote="alchemysa" data-source="post: 94953" data-attributes="member: 13436">6brnorma, thanks for the reply. Yes it looks pretty bad, no doubt about that, and you are obviously pretty expert on these matters. But I dont have much to lose by trying to fix what I have. My chances of finding a good complete used assembly in Australia are remote, unless someone reads this. For a new assembly I'm guessing close to a thousand bucks over here and I doubt that would be a sensible investment either. But a couple of hundred dollars for the missing parts may be worth the gamble. The piece out of the sheave may be repairable with some careful shaping of a filler piece and some light welding and fine grinding. If theres any damage to the crank, due to it being out of balance, it has already happened long ago. (The engine may be stuffed anyway. It runs, but has done a LOT of work.)The only bright side to this is that the two important faces (the inner wall of the sheave, and the shaft of the piston) seem to be in reasonable shape and may seal OK with new O rings all round.So. Do the pins inside the piston shaft come out to reveal more pieces? And do you have any better luck reading that Bobcatpartsonline website than I do? Does it list prices for the components I need or will I only get those by going to a dealer?</blockquote>