Afternoon all,
After getting a mate who's into his vintage cars take a look at the Mag on my SS and had it declared as 'shagged out' I made the awful mistake of following the Hayens manual... Yes I know, I should have known better.
Anyway the manual said remove the timing cover so I assumed they meant the inner as well, since the Manual said nothing about the removing the crank driving gear for the dynamo I just displaced the dyno slipped off the chain and removed the cover taking with it the crank gear, which of course means the crank timing will be screwed up, not a problem as I can set TDC and reassemble, if I can remove the dynamo gear, so does it just pull from the shaft or is their any thing odd about it that I should know? I've looked in the book and its says nothing, and I don't want to drop another bollock. Anyway on the bight side the Mag is out and will off the repair man in the morning for a full refurb. I'm not that bothered about the gear coming free as I intended to do the valve timing at the same time as fitting an SRM oil pump, sump filter screen and oil valve. (I'll keep the original parts in case I sell the bike in the future.)
My other question is there are a few stress fracture marks on a 3 of the fastener fixings in the crank cases which have probably been caused by over tightening over the outer covers in the past, any suggestions for a repair? I was thinking locktite run into the cracks as a temporary fix until I strip the motor down and get a more permanent repair done, probably a weld up re-drill holes and fit some helecoils.
Cheers
Tony
Cheers Tony