I didn't take before photos of this ratchet, but you've all seen them. Rusted, greasy abandoned tools that were stored in a half pan of water for 20 years. The kind where 2% of the weight of it rubs off in your hand when you pick it up, in the form of the hated 'crud'. Anyway, I was determined to revive it, turn at least a bolt or two on an appropriately vintage pickup truck and then retire it to the wall with dignity. But after 2 days of struggle as time allowed, I have gotten it apart as far as I can. I would like to track down a repair kit and go that route, but I have not been able to determine what will fit in it. I'm thinking one of the SK repair kits is my best bet. I had the V5R autopsy thread on GJ for reference and things went pretty much as described. Thanks to PlombBob on GJ.
Here is as far as I got. I got all the big crud knocked off and stopped disassembly at this point.
No sense getting the pawl out because the pin that is inserted in the selector post is rusted in. There is a spring behind it and neither will budge. I had to fish a small punch through the guts in order to tap the pin far enough into the post to be able to lift it out of the assembly. I think I'm out of business though, because the pin will not move now and so there is no chance of the selector functioning again.
You can see the stuck pin on the selector post in this picture:
I am now on the hunt for a repair kit. I have the post soaking in oil in a last ditch effort. If all else fails, I will make it pretty and hang it in it's final resting place, the wall. :(