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You should always remove the balls when cleaning a crank. The later 750 crank has grub screws with are easier to remove
Quote from: Trigger on March 26, 2022, 06:31:38 PMYou should always remove the balls when cleaning a crank. The later 750 crank has grub screws with are easier to remove What's your recommended method for removing the balls Graham?
Nige, many discussions wrt Synthetic oils…. do I assume you use it in your SOHCs with no detriment to the clutch? And if so are you increasing the change times?
Cheers Trig, wildo.Next cleaning job are the clutch plates which @ 3.5mm thickness are good. Plan to immerse them in petrol overnight followed by same in a strong non-corrosive degreaser - will this be inviting trouble?Ta.
Surely the problem Ken, is that you’re unable to directly point any spray at the column of sludge given the geography of the holes. So (useful) mechanical degreasing / washing out is off the cards. Next issue is the 6(?) mm column, 1” high (?) of compacted ‘plastercine’ - how are you ever going to know it’s all dissolved?Could ultrasonics be used? - though I guess the mass of the crankshaft would negate that?The (grinding) method of removing the balls Ash put out on his link would be easy enough for most DIYers - given they had enough nous to get the CS out in the first place?