- Sun Sep 09, 2018 6:19 pm
#78985
I didn’t find the video that helpful actually; he made it look a lot more complicated than it really is. The main problem with these is whether or not the one you get is accurately made. Some owners in order to make them fit have omitted to refit the shims with the result that the outside of the cams has worn against the plate.....The poor accuracy has been reported to our host who has taken this up with the supplier. I ordered mine from India ( before I discovered that our host now supplies them). Mine fitted ok. Basically instead of the plate being fixed in position as determined by two dowels in the original setup, you centre the additional bearing in the new plate on the crankshaft, then tighten the plate, the idea being that it is then correctly positioned on your engine, not relying on the accuracy or otherwise of the position of the dowels. As for is it worth doing, my opinion is probably not. My C5 was a shaker; it still is. Note that the “scientific†demo of the reduction of vibration on the demo bike is actually a 350cc, hardly a shaker anyway. To those who say, well it probably prolongs the life of the timing side needle roller bearing I say, until this plate came into the market where was the concern or evidence that the bearing is short-lived (Electra EFI excepted)? My honest conclusion is that it is an unnecessary answer to a question nobody actually asked. If you want a UCE 500 that is smooth buy a Euro IV one; these are made at a new factory on automated state-of-the-art production lines. The vibration on the earlier models is primarily down to how well the crank was trued and balanced. Trying to correct an out-of-true crank by adding another bearing doesn’t make much sense really...
