Could you tell us where you got the spring? Thanks. Can you post any pics of the job as it went along? They would be interesting to see as a few of us are in the same boat.
On Sun, Sep 6, 2009 at 10:56 PM, oldschoolgwin <[email protected]>wrote: > > Progess so far on cam chain tensioner repair. > > I was able to get the cam chain tensioner out and remove the old > spring today. > > I measured the spring constant (force and deflectoin) for the old and > new springs. The old spring was had a srping constant of 1/10th the > new spring. So at the same displacement the new spring will provide > 10X the force (that's huge). SO - this is good news as it is looking > like the spring is the cause of the chain noise - time will tell. > > The cylinder head cover slipper didn't have any marks on it at all and > the front slipper has very negligle wear on it (you have to look close > to even see - just a short mark about 0.005" deep). > > The cam sprocket is interesting - the timing marks are not > perpendicular to the axis that goes through the bolt holes - see > attached. > > > http://groups.google.com/group/nighthawk_lovers/web/NH%20650%20CAM%20SPROCKET_TIMING%20Marks.jpg > > > Well - next step is to bleed the tappets and I will be doing that > tommorrow - thanks to the tip from Dennis H. (don't need to wait for > the tappet bleeding tool). > > With any luck i can get it finished tomorrow. > > Paul > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Nighthawk Motorcycle Lovers!" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nighthawk_lovers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
