Moulding plane wedge

[cwarner]

I'm cleaning up a bunch of moulding planes, which I have no experience with.  I got a nice 1/2" dado plane cleaned up and sharpened.  I went to test it and the mouth clogged immediately upon trying to take a full width pass.  I think the wedge is too long, as the bottom comes almost even with the end the iron at the one corner, jamming up the shaving at that corner and clogging the mouth. 
I see that the end of the wedge is shaped at the end to push the shaving out the side of the plane, but that isn't happening.  Can I trim the length of the wedge to solve this?

[JQuacker]

Can you upload a few pics?

[cwarner]

Sure can.  Upon further experimenting, it looks like the shaving is jamming between the wedge and iron.

[barryvabeach]

You need to tune the wedge a little.  You want it to make contact at the very lowest part of the iron, and the gap that you noted is causing the problem.  In the first photo, there appears to be a wear spot about a half inch up from the bottom of the wedge, that is the part that needs to be relieved a little.   BTW,  scrapers are ideal for this work - just want to remove a little at a time till you get good contact there.  If you have feeler gauges, it is a good thing to check from below with a .001 gauge to see if there is any gap.  You will also want to shave a little off the end since it will sit lower when you remove some from the wedge.