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Hey Folks...
Restoration on the 1150 is coming along...most of the parts cleaning and painting of the chasis is done...now to the engine.
A question about the clutch and starter clutch.
I've pulled the clutch to check it out and replace the springs. I've read about lose rivites and broken backing plates. Mine looks to be in OK shape...three of the shock springs appear to have washers and three don't. The three that don't I can spin them with my fingers with some effort...the ones with washers I can't budge. The clutch basket looks to be as from the factory...no welding of the rivets etc. One thing that does bother me is that there is some slack between the drive gear and the basket??? some radial and some lateral.
I plan to just put it into my hydraulic press and tighten the rivets if the experts think that's all that's needed. This bike isn't going to be really ridden hard...mostly some highway trips etc. I could also weld the backing plate to the rivets???
I've also read quite a bit about the three bolts that hold the starter clutch to the alternator rotor shearing off and how difficult it can be to remover the rotor, even with the factory puller. All looks to be good there as far as I can see with it assembled...the clutch appearst to be tight on the rotor. I can see the back ends of the bolts through the rotor and the all seem to be in the same distance in, but there's really no way to check and see if the are properly tightened. Would it be wort the effort to go ahead and get a puller and just replace them, not sure if it's a common enough malady to pull the rotor just to check them???
Thanks for any imput...
ED
Restoration on the 1150 is coming along...most of the parts cleaning and painting of the chasis is done...now to the engine.
A question about the clutch and starter clutch.
I've pulled the clutch to check it out and replace the springs. I've read about lose rivites and broken backing plates. Mine looks to be in OK shape...three of the shock springs appear to have washers and three don't. The three that don't I can spin them with my fingers with some effort...the ones with washers I can't budge. The clutch basket looks to be as from the factory...no welding of the rivets etc. One thing that does bother me is that there is some slack between the drive gear and the basket??? some radial and some lateral.
I plan to just put it into my hydraulic press and tighten the rivets if the experts think that's all that's needed. This bike isn't going to be really ridden hard...mostly some highway trips etc. I could also weld the backing plate to the rivets???
I've also read quite a bit about the three bolts that hold the starter clutch to the alternator rotor shearing off and how difficult it can be to remover the rotor, even with the factory puller. All looks to be good there as far as I can see with it assembled...the clutch appearst to be tight on the rotor. I can see the back ends of the bolts through the rotor and the all seem to be in the same distance in, but there's really no way to check and see if the are properly tightened. Would it be wort the effort to go ahead and get a puller and just replace them, not sure if it's a common enough malady to pull the rotor just to check them???
Thanks for any imput...
ED
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