Chainsaw Repair

The transfer covers are not available separately

Here's a couple pictures of the transfer cover. That would be a lot of mill work?

Yes,

I had to go do a chore but was thinking one could take a 555 transfer cover and make it deeper by cutting a grove in it and attaching a new cover piece over the original 555 transfer.

If there is too much zinc in the metal to weld, and you may not be able to weld it anyway for the new part would be a different aluminum alloy, the new cap would have to be JBweld attached? There is not a tremendous amount of heat there

breakdown pics on page 3 and 4 http://chainsawrepair.createaforum.com/husqvarna/560xp562xp-have-a-outboard-clutch/30/

IMHO the difference between the 555 and the 562 is the depth of the transfer cover if the cylinders have the same casting number.

It would be more simple to hand grind a hole down through the top of the 555 cover and JBWeld or aluminum solder a new piece of aluminum on top of the 555 transfer cover to make it deeper by the thickness of the metal in the cover. It could all be done by hand and not require any machine shop work?

It is such an irregular shape that even the machine shop would have to do much of it by hand.

The cover will have so much zinc in the metal that it will be impossible to actually weld on it?

When there is a lot of zinc in an aluminum die casting such as these covers and you try to weld it, as it gets up to temperature for the metal to join, the whole part will suddenly disappear into a puddle of molten metal.

If you get into making those groves for the gasket when making a entirely new part, it would be an impossible task.

One might could utilize old covers from a trashed 562 cylinder on a new 555 cylinder?