Hi B-boy,I had an issue when I swapped my mainshaft top sleeve gear with one with slightly better bushes,but was too tight in the bearing and wouldn't seat home properly. I discovered a bit of distortion at the inner ends of the sprocket splines, so did a bit of very careful 'dremel-engineering', to enable the gear to push through the bearing enough. Do all gears select ok without (not so)funny noises? Regarding plates, can't recall what I may have posted, but in each of two baskets, like other folk I had only four friction plates each,and apart from not enough room can't see that 2 steel together would be detrimental,just less flex? Cheers, duTch nb.phone'predictive text' is sabotaging me beware errors