Splitting the f*%$#@ng cases

[trbig]

Hmmm...

Well.. forget everything I said then.. lol.

Man, that does suck, Randy. Sorry to hear that. Makes me wonder if one of those rollers is hanging up in that slot somehow. You aren't using synthetic oil are you?

[randy]

No synthetic, Castrol 20W50

[crazy steve]

Randy, I'll throw this out there for what it's worth...

A guy I knew was having the same problem (different bike, but same type of starter drive) and he put in slightly oversized rollers. IIRC right, he went about .010-.015" oversized, and made the new rollers from hardened drill blanks. That worked for him, might be worth a shot...

'78E original owner

[randy]

Thanks for the tip, but that's a bit over the top. I'm no machinist, and IF I ever get in there again, I'm not going to experiment. Besides, what's the difference between bigger rollers or bigger gear boss? Same net result, I think.

[crazy steve]

...Besides, what's the difference between bigger rollers or bigger gear boss?

You can buy drill blanks numerous places, but not the gear...

'78E original owner

[3Phase]

Here's the one of mine that's NOT in the motor. 46.93 mm. So post your numbers, boys.The biggest diameter wins. How big is your unit?

I'll play, Randy. Someone needed my compression tester more than I did but while I was digging around looking for it I found my two spare starter clutches on their primary shafts. One is the 'bad' clutch I replaced with >45,000 miles, the other has about 13,000 miles.

Randy's is 46.93mm (1.8476" because I can't 'visualize' metric and it means nothing to me)

My 'bad' one:
47.13mm (1.8555")

My good one:
47.15mm (1.8556")


Regards,

Scott (off for a ride to a buddy's house to borrow a compression tester )

[randy]

Oh, god.....oh, god...

Makes my right leg twitch just seeing it...