A bit of prep

 

 

Ok some prep for the rebuild.

First up is a tool I just couldn't have gotten by without, my scribe. Thought it deserved a mention.

I made up a 1mm spacer for the inner sleeve of the fly side main bearing, I didn't have one before because I had read that the only reason the gap was there was so you could get the sleeve off with the factory puller, I have since been told that the gap also allows the seal to do its job better. The little selector arm is exactly the right size to snugly fit inbetween the crank webs for when I tap the sleeve onto the crankshaft, after heating it.

The third pic is the first crank I used and I was interested to see if it was out of true in the horizontal plain along the shaft. The marks represented where I measured with my micrometer. At 12 o'clock I compared the play in the conrod, the secondhand one was 3-4 times more play than the new one, that said it was still less than a mm at the big end bearing. The other measurements between the webs were the same for both cranks, so if the crank is out of true it can only be that the two webs have twisted somehow, I doubt it, but hey I'm no expert. Peace of mind that it's a new one going in.

Lastly, the wait for postage from the UK is about 3 weeks, which is what it was, I wonder though that it might have been quicker if they had of put the correct country on the address label? A testament to the postage systems world wide that it still found me here in country Victoria, Australia. I just hope that there isn't, by some freaky coincidence, a poor bloke in Elliminyt, USA is still waiting for his new crank....