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The plan is to turn 140,000 into 50,000
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<blockquote data-quote="joedrum" data-source="post: 215495" data-attributes="member: 98"><p>Oh the things that can happen can be a huge problem ....from bike to bike things can be entirely different....just keep tugging through it ... the way the output shaft is done defies all common sense ...it wasn’t to the 1200 bikes that the finally made something like the engineers had a brain ...not only is the C clip hard to put on ..the whole idea the set up piece is in a state neutral tension allows it to hammer the output shaft violently ...cause it ability to deform the output shaft greatly over a set up that is tension with a spring like the 1200 shaft ...actually on both sides of the output shaft on the motor ...in farming I’ve seen strait splines actually distorted in a slight curve ..witch will happen long before it would ever like snap into ....this condition can make the connecting piece one spot it will ever go on ...and if your dealing with pieces that were never together before like they don’t fit period ...just saying this cause in some situations this can be a huge problem and it seems you were up against that ...glad you got through it ...after the bike works in a bit I’d say the next time the output will probably be better ...just guessing though ...can’t speak much on steering bearing ..to this day and all the bikes I’ve had ..I’ve never changed one yet ...anyway just keep plugging away with it ...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="joedrum, post: 215495, member: 98"] Oh the things that can happen can be a huge problem ....from bike to bike things can be entirely different....just keep tugging through it ... the way the output shaft is done defies all common sense ...it wasn’t to the 1200 bikes that the finally made something like the engineers had a brain ...not only is the C clip hard to put on ..the whole idea the set up piece is in a state neutral tension allows it to hammer the output shaft violently ...cause it ability to deform the output shaft greatly over a set up that is tension with a spring like the 1200 shaft ...actually on both sides of the output shaft on the motor ...in farming I’ve seen strait splines actually distorted in a slight curve ..witch will happen long before it would ever like snap into ....this condition can make the connecting piece one spot it will ever go on ...and if your dealing with pieces that were never together before like they don’t fit period ...just saying this cause in some situations this can be a huge problem and it seems you were up against that ...glad you got through it ...after the bike works in a bit I’d say the next time the output will probably be better ...just guessing though ...can’t speak much on steering bearing ..to this day and all the bikes I’ve had ..I’ve never changed one yet ...anyway just keep plugging away with it ... [/QUOTE]
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