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Sorry for the long-ish post, but I've been away from my shovel for almost a year and finally getting back into it. I'm in the process of adding a tech cycle starter, because of awesome knee issues--I now can't kick start it. Fitting it in there required a bit of fuckery, including the need for a custom clutch release arm which I just bent up. So I decided (reluctantly) to pop open the kicker cover since I'd been having some clutch adjustment issues prior to throwing it back on the lift.
I switched back to the older (repop) cone style throwout bearing, and found that it got jammed up and would no longer spin (it was not over-tightened). The outer retainer that holds the two pieces of the bearing together skipped up and out of the two little slots where they are pressed in, which usually hold that piece from spinning, and basically seized the whole thing. This doesn't show what happened, but here's a pic for reference:
That ended up wearing down my clutch pushrod a bit, which ended up being my adjustment problem. I should note that I'm running Baker kicker gears in there, and the smaller ratchet gear doesn't have the little ball and spring that normally lines up with the little notch on the inside of the cone style bearing and keeps it from spinning around the gear. Perhaps this doesn't work? Pissed off with the shitty bearing, I decided to take it out of there and swap it over to one of the "upgraded" wafer bearing setups. Now I have some fun new problems...
The push rod doesn't come out past the seal when pressed all the way in, and the finger is backed up against the inside of the kicker cover. I realized this, of course, AFTER I went through the trouble of welding the slinger to the pushrod and filing the bearing surface down to be perfectly flat and perpendicular to the rod. So the push rod is short, that I know. It's 14" long from tip to tip, and the next longest one I can find anywhere is only 14-1/8". That doesn't help me a ton.
Here's some pics of the push rod all the way in, and then out (clutch arm pulled as far forward as possible).
I'm running a bit of a frankenstein tranny: STD case, S&S kicker cover, Baker kicker gears, tech cycle starter mounts on its own mainshaft bearing support, primo open belt, and pro clutch. The pro clutch doesn't take a tremendous amount of throw to release, but this rod seems to be so short that it takes quite a bit of movement from the release arm in order to get the rod to extend out past the seal. Are there longer push rods anywhere? I can't seem to find longer that 14-1/8" and I'm not sure that'll help me much. OR if anyone has an OEM cone style bearing I will gladly take it off your hands. Thanks
I switched back to the older (repop) cone style throwout bearing, and found that it got jammed up and would no longer spin (it was not over-tightened). The outer retainer that holds the two pieces of the bearing together skipped up and out of the two little slots where they are pressed in, which usually hold that piece from spinning, and basically seized the whole thing. This doesn't show what happened, but here's a pic for reference:
That ended up wearing down my clutch pushrod a bit, which ended up being my adjustment problem. I should note that I'm running Baker kicker gears in there, and the smaller ratchet gear doesn't have the little ball and spring that normally lines up with the little notch on the inside of the cone style bearing and keeps it from spinning around the gear. Perhaps this doesn't work? Pissed off with the shitty bearing, I decided to take it out of there and swap it over to one of the "upgraded" wafer bearing setups. Now I have some fun new problems...
The push rod doesn't come out past the seal when pressed all the way in, and the finger is backed up against the inside of the kicker cover. I realized this, of course, AFTER I went through the trouble of welding the slinger to the pushrod and filing the bearing surface down to be perfectly flat and perpendicular to the rod. So the push rod is short, that I know. It's 14" long from tip to tip, and the next longest one I can find anywhere is only 14-1/8". That doesn't help me a ton.
Here's some pics of the push rod all the way in, and then out (clutch arm pulled as far forward as possible).
I'm running a bit of a frankenstein tranny: STD case, S&S kicker cover, Baker kicker gears, tech cycle starter mounts on its own mainshaft bearing support, primo open belt, and pro clutch. The pro clutch doesn't take a tremendous amount of throw to release, but this rod seems to be so short that it takes quite a bit of movement from the release arm in order to get the rod to extend out past the seal. Are there longer push rods anywhere? I can't seem to find longer that 14-1/8" and I'm not sure that'll help me much. OR if anyone has an OEM cone style bearing I will gladly take it off your hands. Thanks
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