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[bigpete]

Hi all,may i wish you a happy christmas and a very good new year. Has anybody used our hosts clutch main shaft spacer.? How did you find it?

[Scalyback]

Somebody before me fitted one on my old bullet. The clutch works well with and has about one and a half turns tolerance on the clutch cable, so easy to adjust. Never had a clutch problem



How did I find it?, It's on page 54 of the bullet catalogue.

[Norm]

I'm drawing a blank here, I can't think what a mainshaft spacer is?

[Scalyback]

OOps! think I gave an answer to a different question, I was thinking about the cover strengthener spacer, stops the cover flexing.

[Norm]

Scaly, right at this moment putting a box together, putting English gears into an Indian housing and the only mainshaft spacer I can think of is the inner oil slinger, but now I have a question, English gearboxes don't use a gasket but the Indian ones do, so now that I'm fitting English gears in this Indian housing, do I use a gasket? The only thing I think that not using a gasket might put put pressure on the layshaft thrust washer. On a previous occasion I had to take a few thou off the end of the layshaft to get a box together but just thinking about it that box must have had English gears or maybe just an English mainshaft because it was an imperial shaft I had to sleve up to fit the metric bearing the Indian end cover uses. Oh the joys of working on "Refurbished in India" bikes

[mauri]

i think bigpete means this







before this part came available i had a hardend ring installed, which does basically the same thing.

keeps the clutch centre from being wrenched to far on to the main shaft, thus dis-aligning the primary chain.

some newer clutches come with a hardend ring already installed from the factory, the problem is its only barely harder than mild steel surrounding it.



the clutch centre needs to be machined to except this part.

[Norm]

Ok fits the English gearboxes

[Norm]

[bigpete]

Thats it mauri.As you say you have to have the clutch center machined to fit this but by how much?I dont have a lathe so i would have to get somebody to do this for me and it would be nice to be able to give them a figure to work to Cheers Pete

[Norm]

Pete, any particular reason you want to fit one of these, if you feel you must, the simple solution is to get an English mainshaft sleve and fit that so no machining required.