Thanks for the confidence, I was like
![Maddest :maddest:](https://board.marlincrawler.com/Smileys/marlin/maddest.gif)
when I found out the bearing slid right over the clip. I had all kinds of ideas going through my head and all of them were out there. Making the new clip seemed like the only way.
So now the R151F 4 speed is all back together less the case. I still need to weld up the tailshaft housing to get everything back together.
Enough talk time for more progress, time is a wasting.