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Do you have a good machine shop locally..? With a piece of 1.5" hexagon bar stock they could possibly turn you one up. Specs are out there on t'interweb.
Rockwell PR-68 rear axle in our 208 Timberjack. It is the "pinion nut". The input shaft is actually a worm gear assembly with two back to back tapered roller bearings in the front cover. There is another ball bearing (pilot bearing) on the far side of the worm gear. The nut holds half the U-joint assembly on and sets the preload on the pair of roller bearings. I guess thats why it is extra fine, to allow more acurate adjustment of the rolling torque. But wait thats not right because there is not a crush washer between the roller bearings just a spacer ( parts list shows two to pick from, different thicknesses I'd guess). Anyway we had a lot of play in the input shaft and did some disassembly and the threads on the shaft looked pretty beat so we thought aleast a new nut on the re-assembly. Ha. So turns out the bearings are too worn to get the slack out by adjusting up the nut so we will get some parts and take it all apart soon. Gerry