Saturday dawns and I'm up early in the garage. While waiting for parts to arrive I finish some small projects on my K11 then start cleaning parts from Smithy's bike.
The clutch nut on the right is the old one.
Then Smithy arrived ready to get to work.
For some reason Chris liked this chicken so he wanted it in some pics. He tried to explain it to me but I'm sorry Chris I just didn't get it.
Tapping in the new seal, or Smithy in his natural state with a hammer in his hand.
Using the same alignment tool I used in High Level in 2006.
Pulled out the old shaft seal.
Chris brought a home made drift which worked great.
I struggle horribly with taking the written word and forming pictures with them in my head when it comes to directions. Chris had the misfortune to witness this first hand. Sorry for making this part stressful.
Now I need to back up just a little bit here.
While Chris and I were struggling to get the intermediate housing in place on the back of the engine, it kept hanging up. So Chris calls Jon D., and while they were talking I kept trying to seal the housing.
As I pulled it off to start again to attempt yet again to get it on the crankshaft gear and spring fell out!
"Holy SHIT! Dammitallthehell" - I believe those we're my exact words.
See, what Christ didn't know was before he arrived I had called Morton's BMW about some parts for myself and they asked me what I was doing, so I told them.
When the tech understood where I was working on the bike, he said, "Listen, there's a flat disk spring behind the crankshaft gear and if it falls out it can go in right or wrong equally well".
"If you put it in wrong, you won't know it's wrong until it's all back together. Listen, if it falls out, give us a call before we close at 5 and we'll talk you through putting it in right".
The only saving grace was that I had touched those gears the other day and in doing so discovered that that gear could be pushed in slightly and it would spring back.
So Chris and I start trial placements (after I get my poop in a group) and were able to get it in oriented correctly (up/down) and flipped in on the shaft right.
So from there things go fairly quickly.
Dude!! It's only 12 Nm.
Chris started calling my digital torque wrench the "Boss" because it's badassed and always right.
When in doubt, apply leverage.
Aligning the cush drive to the alternator dog was a PITA, just sayin' .
Who would have thought the shock of all things would give us a real us that much trouble.
But we were saved by Steverino who showed up and directed our efforts with great effect.
It will wait here for the replacement rear cowling we broke when moving it.
Good times indeed.
