Hi fellas,
I just thought I would share my story. Today I pulled the primary outer half off to service the one-way assembly and clean things up. Everything looked OK but, needing some Isoflex grease. I pulled the 2 bearings out (sealed both sides), wiped them off and solvent cleaned the remainder of the parts. After reassembling the one-way I started cleaning and scuffing the sheaves with some Scotch Brite and then I saw a flat spot on a roller. The unhappiness started then. I just brought the bike home from the dealer after getting the 2,000 mile valve clearance check-yesterday (80 mile round trip). Luckily they had rollers in stock. Then the service man told me it would be under warrantee-if they replaced the rollers but, needed the whole machine. Well I didn't want to lose the bike for the whole holiday weekend so I went to the dealer and bought the rollers. When I pulled in the sales manager greeted me in the parking lot so I related my story to him and he said he would get my roller purchase refunded under warrantee ! I still had to replace all 6 rollers and it took some improvisation but, good triumphed over evil and I got her done!
The moral of this story is: the clutch rollers can develop flat spots in as little as 2150 miles. I purchased this machine in March and have around 80 hours on it. Now to go out and wear out the new rollers!
Mike
I just thought I would share my story. Today I pulled the primary outer half off to service the one-way assembly and clean things up. Everything looked OK but, needing some Isoflex grease. I pulled the 2 bearings out (sealed both sides), wiped them off and solvent cleaned the remainder of the parts. After reassembling the one-way I started cleaning and scuffing the sheaves with some Scotch Brite and then I saw a flat spot on a roller. The unhappiness started then. I just brought the bike home from the dealer after getting the 2,000 mile valve clearance check-yesterday (80 mile round trip). Luckily they had rollers in stock. Then the service man told me it would be under warrantee-if they replaced the rollers but, needed the whole machine. Well I didn't want to lose the bike for the whole holiday weekend so I went to the dealer and bought the rollers. When I pulled in the sales manager greeted me in the parking lot so I related my story to him and he said he would get my roller purchase refunded under warrantee ! I still had to replace all 6 rollers and it took some improvisation but, good triumphed over evil and I got her done!
The moral of this story is: the clutch rollers can develop flat spots in as little as 2150 miles. I purchased this machine in March and have around 80 hours on it. Now to go out and wear out the new rollers!
Mike