- Tue Jan 22, 2019 11:46 pm
#81182
"Wheaters, the 350 home market Electra of that vintage is basically the classic 350 Bullet with a mostly standard crankshaft, they just used a different drive side mainshaft for the TCI type alternator with a tapered mounting. The 350 Electra was a very popular model in India and the factory kept it going for a while longer in UCE form."
I'm afraid that's not totally clarified my understanding because my knowledge of RE manufacturing history isn't sufficient to know for certain what the terms "classic" and "standard" actually mean in this context. Do you mean my bike does have a potentially troublesome type of bottom end, or not? Folk here refer to an "improved" setup - does that mean improved from the troublesome type, or just a different spec. fitted only to the Electra-X 500 cc engine (and not really improved at all - in fact just the opposite)?
I hope my bike has an aluminium conrod with steel bearing inserts and a floating ring between them and is not of the later, more troublesome type - is this correct?
Thanks.
I'm afraid that's not totally clarified my understanding because my knowledge of RE manufacturing history isn't sufficient to know for certain what the terms "classic" and "standard" actually mean in this context. Do you mean my bike does have a potentially troublesome type of bottom end, or not? Folk here refer to an "improved" setup - does that mean improved from the troublesome type, or just a different spec. fitted only to the Electra-X 500 cc engine (and not really improved at all - in fact just the opposite)?
I hope my bike has an aluminium conrod with steel bearing inserts and a floating ring between them and is not of the later, more troublesome type - is this correct?
Thanks.
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