Any mousetrap gurus here?
I have adjusted mine on my UL per the manual, and several youtube videos. Seems to work ok, but it doesn't snap back firmly like I see in some youtube videos....... Does that matter???
Thoughts?
Several theories:
1.) Booster spring is weak and needs replaced (25yrs old???)
2.) Vtwin (garbage) repop mousetrap finally is sloppy and worn out enough it just doesn't work (25yrs old???)
3.) There's a reason why mousetrap eliminators exist....... I know these mousetraps can be fairly tricky to setup right. But even when this one did work last, the clutch pull was absolutely no easier than the mousetrap eliminator setup on my Panhead. Far as I can tell, they both have the same clutch springs too.....
This mousetrap has been on here for 25 years or so, and it did work once upon a moon. But like I say, I never really remember it working all that well. My dad wasn't impressed by it either, and he's the one that put it on here when I was too young to responsibly hold a wrench and know what to do with it.
I'll keep fooling around with this mousetrap. But I'm at the point where I feel like I have done my due diligence in setting it up and adjusting it correctly. And after that, it doesn't seem to snap back like I think it maybe should???? Maybe that doesn't matter.
Going to test it again here soon and I'll know. Future plans and/or option B is slap a suicide pedal on it since all I have to do is shorten the mousetrap clutch linkage and connect it to the foot shifter and voila. Would give me a good reason to turn one of the cool ass old door knobs I have laying around into a shift knob. Which is the whole reason I scrounged said door knobs to begin with.
Also, considering a mousetrap eliminator setup in the future as well. May have to pull the oil tank to get that little U shaped bracket in there......
I have adjusted mine on my UL per the manual, and several youtube videos. Seems to work ok, but it doesn't snap back firmly like I see in some youtube videos....... Does that matter???
Thoughts?
Several theories:
1.) Booster spring is weak and needs replaced (25yrs old???)
2.) Vtwin (garbage) repop mousetrap finally is sloppy and worn out enough it just doesn't work (25yrs old???)
3.) There's a reason why mousetrap eliminators exist....... I know these mousetraps can be fairly tricky to setup right. But even when this one did work last, the clutch pull was absolutely no easier than the mousetrap eliminator setup on my Panhead. Far as I can tell, they both have the same clutch springs too.....
This mousetrap has been on here for 25 years or so, and it did work once upon a moon. But like I say, I never really remember it working all that well. My dad wasn't impressed by it either, and he's the one that put it on here when I was too young to responsibly hold a wrench and know what to do with it.
I'll keep fooling around with this mousetrap. But I'm at the point where I feel like I have done my due diligence in setting it up and adjusting it correctly. And after that, it doesn't seem to snap back like I think it maybe should???? Maybe that doesn't matter.
Going to test it again here soon and I'll know. Future plans and/or option B is slap a suicide pedal on it since all I have to do is shorten the mousetrap clutch linkage and connect it to the foot shifter and voila. Would give me a good reason to turn one of the cool ass old door knobs I have laying around into a shift knob. Which is the whole reason I scrounged said door knobs to begin with.
Also, considering a mousetrap eliminator setup in the future as well. May have to pull the oil tank to get that little U shaped bracket in there......
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