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[Jack]

Must admit i can't ever remember seeing a spacer in that location,got me stumped.
Jack

[Norm]

Jack, have a look in the book, part number 8 drive sprocket distance piece

[PeteF]

That should slide off. probably a bit damaged from being loose. Can you get a puller on it?

[Meteorman]

Jack, have a look in the book, part number 8 drive sprocket distance piece

But Norm this is the clutch shaft,not the output shaft that the spacer is usually located,behind the sprocket.
Jack

[Norm]

Jack, you must have a different book, mainshaft is number 12, mainshaft low gear is 11, mainshaft bearing is 10, mainshaft oil seal is 9 and mainshaft distance piece is 8

[Norm]

Jack sorry 12 is the mainshaft sleve, not the mainshaft

[Marty]

Managed to get It off using a bit of heat and force. It fits in the back of the clutch drum.
As for the oil leak and loose sprocket nut, the nut has never been lock tabbed as the tab is still flat an new looking.
The nut was just rubbing the back of the primary case and the threads and oil seal in the nut are damaged. The gear box oil seal and spacer ring look ok. So think I will just order new nut and give it a try.

[Norm]

Marty, the only way I can get the spacer out to check it is to remove the oil seal because it is held in by the seal. If you have another way I would like to know

[John L]

There seems to be a bit of confusion here....... Jack - I have two 4-speed Bullets and neither has a spacer in the position shown in the pic.-- Norm - this isn't the sprocket spacer #8 as it's the wrong side of the gearbox sprocket, but I agree with you that the only way to check the sprocket distance piece is to remove the seal. I also agree that this dist. piece will spin if the sprocket nut is loose. I believe this was an ommission (cost-cutting?) on the part of Enfield India, as the Redditch ones were splined to the mainshaft sleeve. Over to you, Marty......

[Norm]

Hi John, I'm not sure where the confusion is and I have rebuilt so many of these I can't remember but in the Bullet Workshop Manual it clearly shows it as number 8 shown on the left side of the gearbox housing with the sprocket it locks up against on the right hand side of the housing. The gearbox nut must be tightened up to ensure the sprocket, spacer and bearing are held tight together to prevent the seal from just sitting in the seal and not turning with the mainshaft sleve. And you are right the English ones were splined to suit the shaft so it would rotate and not just sit there motionless in the oil seal