help whats up with new chain - Page 6

 



BINGO!!!

Mark gets the cigar!!!

Thanks for the awesome explanation!!!

 

Oscar_Lives wrote:

My clip is stamped <http://img72.imageshack.us/img72/2526/masterclip.jpg>
and has most of the features shown in suwaprecision.com's jpg...
including the fractured squared edge side being a bit smaller than the
sheared rounded edge side. So, it's not going to sit as deep in the
groove. I think I'll put the sheared edge out.
Whichever way you prefer to do it, my clip, I'll guess all clips, was
stamped TWICE, from opposite directions. The inside cut, where it
matters, is exactly opposite the perimeter of the clip.

 

4b78-a6c7-f31c1fb05552@s2g2000yqa.googlegroups.com:


The clip should be replaced any time it is bent or has any
looseness/movement at all after being installed. They are easily damaged
during removal, which is why it's fairly common to run into folks who
say, "Never try to re-use one."

regards,
Joe

 


I've installed brand new clips that weren't flat, one leg was slightly
bent. I figured that the clip was engineered that way.

I used to lose masterlink clips on the race track and some racers were
safety wiring the clips. The pressed on side plate would never come
off though.

I started degreasing the clip and the side plate and applying a drop
of red Loctite and I haven't lost a clip 25 years....

 



I've done it twice. Once, 30 years ago, when I bought a CB750F - the
first slab-sided 'Super Sport' SOHC CB750. Horrible thing. A really,
really nasty underdeveloped bike.

Anyway, it would spin straight to the redline in top, and I discovered
Honda had actually geared it down for acceleration. The gearbox sprocket
from a K4 had one more tooth, and made the bike far more pleasant to
ride and aided mpg.

I did the same thing with my late-1980s Yamaha RD350F2 power-valve. That
would also spin to the redline in top. Going up one tooth on the gearbox
sprocket did, in fact, increase the top speed (ISTR Performance Bikes
doing the same mod and getting 127mph out of the thing!) but it changed
the 'dead zone' (where the power valve couldn't decide whether to open
or not) from an indicated 70 mph to an indicated 75-80, which made the
thing, on UK roads, a PITA.

I put it back to stock. I've still got that extra sprocket in a box
somewhere.

My Ducati (currently awaiting fuel tank surgery) is overgeared in top -
it would theoretically redline at 150 in top. I've often thought of
gearing it down to make it snappier, but I actually like the loping
V-twin gait, so I've left the gearing stock.


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