Wood Steam Engine

[ezdays]

Hey, we have a giant step.... backwards. Step 39 1/2 says to disassemble the body and find out why the spring won't engage the main gear. I thought I missed a step way in the beginning because I had 4 J-2 parts that should have been used to lock the spring, but I didn't, they are there. There is two sets of J-2 but only one is used. They also have a J-3 gear that I cannot find where it belongs, so I'm assuming they are used in another assembly and just included to upset the builder.

Now for the main problem, I need to find out what the spring/gear issue is and so I took off a bunch of parts and found that there is a gap between the two. Here's what it looks like right now. There is also a shot of the parts that I removed including those that fell off on their own. Remember, no glue required...

Now to figure out how to get those parts to stay aligned without any glue.