Triumphrat

EDG1911

Hey Diego,

I only posted it here because there was another thread with the same problem and also I thought maybe someone with a similar problem may have had a machine shop machine a steel insert or had a welder reattach the pieces and reinforce the area so workshop talk seemed very appropriate to me.

It's obviously a possible major design flaw if Triumph has redesigned it to make that area less prone to the forces that broke mine and any others. I will always think of it every time I start my bike from now on.

I think Triumph is just hoping it doesn't become an epidemic. when searching threads here for info before making this thread I saw another where a person was installing a chrome clutch cover and had not gotten the starter shaft in place correctly and may almost have had the same thing happen and even had to file some burrs off the race to get the shaft back in place...
so maybe the tolerances are off or some such on some older castings.

either way when a $10 shaft breaks a $3500 engine case it doesn't seem right.

Eugene