What I did with my classic Triumph today?
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Snakeoil: How big is your smile after hearing it run and feeling it in action? The birds returning from their winter quarters don't have a song that sweet. Bob
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I have used the family dishwasher on it's high temp cycle. Easy as stacking dishes!! RR
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Always the naysayer, if given a chance, but I wish you well with this clutch adjustment.
Personally I believe they are a marginal bit of gear at best. Proper adjustment for them is a microfart before they start creeping when disengaged.
How to get to this point? removing the primary case many times
RR
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Finished with rebuild of forks, but one fork nut must have a bad thread, could not get it on. Also took another step backwards when the guy who is doing the powder coating on all my black bits called and said he was not happy with the results. Oh well, still too cold for riding anyways, and the Vancouver Canucks won 3rd straight against Chicago!
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I took my newly rebuilt Bonneville for its first ride yesterday. The rear brake failed at the end of the driveway but I didn’t let that stop me from getting in a short ride. The bike ran great but the tranny seemed to shift a bit strange. Maybe I should have used heavier oil in the gearbox instead of the 20/50 I used?
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Gear oil is usually 80/90 grade.
*Hypoid to cope with the crushing effect.
20/50 ?? , what were you thinking?
I hope you`re going to change that to 80/90 gear oil as soon as possible!!
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Always the naysayer, if given a chance, but I wish you well with this clutch adjustment.
Personally I believe they are a marginal bit of gear at best. Proper adjustment for them is a microfart before they start creeping when disengaged.
How to get to this point? removing the primary case many times
Thanks for the encouragement, RR!
so you're suggesting that I should ride her up and down my road 1/2 mile without the primary cover on several times to make sure I have
it adjusted right?
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I sure will be changing it now. I'm not sure where half of the things I think of come from.
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While there is an infinite debate on lubricants - I know racers that use Torco 50 in the engine oil, gearbox and primary, and there's folks that use ATF in the primary - the march of progress in the technology of lubricants might make the shop manual irrelevant this matter, but I run gear oil in my gearbox as it just seems to make the most sense.
At one point I put 20w in the gearbox as it was hard to shift but after making an accurate clutch adjustment I went back to 80/90 gear oil.
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Yeah, I know what you mean. The 60's and 70's were tough on me, too......I sure will be changing it now. I'm not sure where half of the things I think of come from.
what?
Rob
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It's not like we were not warned this could happen. But, gee wiz, 20/50 in a tranny? The longer I think about this, the funnier it gets.
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Actually, there are a lot of bikes out there that combine engine and tranny oil into one sump and run motoroil in there. The numbers are misleading. Just because motor oil is 20w50 and gear oil is 80/90wt does not mean a nearly 50% difference in viscosity. Gear oil weigts are entirely different from motoroil weights. It's the properties of the oils that set them apart more than their viscosity.
regards,
Rob
regards,
Rob
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My manual specifies 20w50 for the gearbox and that is what I have run since 1978. Zero problems. The transmission is one of the best, smoothest and most dependable features of my bike.
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That's for you to decide Gator, but experience has shown me that a clutch set and operating very nicely when cold, will often creep when hot. Something to do with heat and the expansion of metals!!Thanks for the encouragement, RR!
so you're suggesting that I should ride her up and down my road 1/2 mile without the primary cover on several times to make sure I have
it adjusted right?
I know Webby can say amen to this. RR
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Family dishwasher?! 'Family'... indicates you're married. Where the hell was your family when you put your clutch plates in the dishwasher? Vacation to Europe?
My wife can smell when auto / motorcycle parts have been in her oven over a mile away - I can't imagine getting caught putting clutch plates in the dishwasher. She'd be having me buy an new dishwasher, no matter how I explained my thinking.
Hat's off to you, brave man : -)
... and thanks for putting the 'Reinstate Hank' link in your sig. A noble gesture indeed.
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I've gotten away with using the wife's dishwasher, but she can smell spray bomb paint from a mile away.
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I have to admit that I try to avoid stinking up the house with stuff. We have a nice place and there is no reason for me to be spray painting or doing other stinky stuff in the basement. Although I must admit that in winter months I have rigged up a fan that sucks the stink out the basement window and done some spray painting with rattle cans and air brush.
But that all said, I also have to say that my wife never makes a single derogatory statement should I be doing something peculiar in the house. She's grown accustomed to painted parts or freshly plated parts baking in the oven. When I bake paint, I do put the exhaust fan on in the kitchen. I think she's happy to see me playing with my toys rather than sitting at a bar somewhere getting loaded or chasing every skirt that walks by. She never has to look very far to find me, that's for sure. Guess I'm a lucky guy.
She loves all my bikes, too.
regards,
Rob
But that all said, I also have to say that my wife never makes a single derogatory statement should I be doing something peculiar in the house. She's grown accustomed to painted parts or freshly plated parts baking in the oven. When I bake paint, I do put the exhaust fan on in the kitchen. I think she's happy to see me playing with my toys rather than sitting at a bar somewhere getting loaded or chasing every skirt that walks by. She never has to look very far to find me, that's for sure. Guess I'm a lucky guy.
She loves all my bikes, too.
regards,
Rob
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