Honda-SOHC

I've only ordered from Webike in Japan. I have yet to be clobbered for tax/import charges. Service has been excellent. Some parts, however, are cheaper in the UK....

Yeah, I've spent my lunch hour putting together a spread sheet comparing prices, most are cheaper on yamira but a few are cheaper or negligible on DSS.

Some stuff is half the price from yamira.

Ordered quite a few times from Yamiya inc bearings when I was doing the 750.
Always worked out cheaper than silvers even with the postage and capture charges.
This has always been a gripe of mine that Silvers are ripping us off.
Sure Trigger or nurse Julie will be able to offer more info as they use them all the time.

I've ordered from impex and that was fine and I didn't seem to get any customs charges unless its in the price.

What do you mean by capture charges?

Out of interest which journal number is it?

From the generator/stator end its number 2.

One of my mains is giving an odd reading, its 0.38mm when the rest are 0.025mm.

Can I assume the clearance is fine if its within the wear limit of 0.02 or 0.05mm?

How close it too close?

Bearing clearance update 2.

From the generator side first:

brown 0.025mm green 0.038mm green 0.025mm green 0.050mm green 0.050mm
                                                                        brown 0.025mm

I put the brown in one of the green that measured at 0.050mm and it went down to 0.025mm. I'll remeasure the one that gave a reading of 0.038mm.

I think the best thing to do would be to go BROWN GREEN GREEN BROWN BROWN.

Then as other people have said, run it in carefully.

Would it be worth getting a smaller gauge?


Where did you get it from? I can only find big boxes of it that are £35+

Update.

My brown and green bearing sets arrived from impex. Took a while to get them on their end but only took 5 days to arrive from Japan which is crazy.

Pictures of plastigauge measurements here: https://imgur.com/a/WOXySvp

Ive noted which one is brown. They are all 7 thousandths or less, except one which I will measure again.

From looking back at the chart could I change the greens to browns or would that be too tight of a tolerance?

When you say the clearance is 0.01124, do you mean the crank measured 31.98876?

Yeah, the figures I gave are just the clearance, so 32 - whatever the measurement was.

The 2nd measurement was a bit odd but the measurements I got from measuring it in a few places was 31.98368mm 3 times.

The way I read the chart was like this. First code is B so the crankcase allowance row B, then the clearance is 0.01124mm or 0.011mm so its the - 0.010 to 0.020 column so BROWN.

Actually reading it out loud and typing it, it should be 1 BROWN 4 GREEN.

I'll order 1 set of green and 1 set of brown and measure with plastigauge.