Mrs. melville took the boys geocaching and left me at home to play with the motorbike. Clutch installation time, new disc and pressure plate!
First, I had to make a clutch centering tool. Haynes told me the size it needed to be:
And I found that my 15mm deep socket was darn close to the 20.7 size, making me wonder how I could make the pointy end of it. A little thinking and a $2 trip to the hardware store, and it was off to the races:
Soon afterward, the clutch was mounted:
And centered:
Next up, reinstalling the transmission. A year after I cleaned and refinished the trans, it needed a little cleaning:
But just three minutes with a softish ScotchBrite and it's all better:
Then it was time to get the trans in. I keep hearing about removing the swingarm pivots and pushing the swingarm back to remove/replace the trans but for the life of me I can't see why. This time I removed the rear engine mount and tilted the rear of the engine up just a bit, but I'm not sure even that was required. Anyway, it's in now:
I got new clamps for the trans/swingarm boot in SS, but they were not to my standard. A quick run on the buffer got them up to spec (before and after seen here):
I've also heard grumbling about getting the boot onto its various flanges. I used an old bicycle spoke to get the boot over the flanges, and it didn't seem too bad:
The last thing was to get the battery and airbox back in place:
I do want to curse the guy who used the top right trans mount stud to mount the right half of the airbox--no room to swing the wrench there, and hard to keep the airbox half aligned as you crank it in. I ended up wrenching a bit, knocking the thing into alignment with the rubber mallet, wrenching a bit, knocking a bit, until everything looked good. That's all for today.
