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Title: What's this mark for?
Post by: deltarider on January 02, 2024, 11:50:01 AM
What's this mark in the rim around the clutch adjuster for? Does it indicate the clutch is worn when you can align the big slot in the adjuster with it?
Title: Re: What's this mark for?
Post by: Bryanj on January 02, 2024, 12:37:19 PM
Its in the manual supplements in ashs dropbox, nothing to do with wear, adjuster has to be in within a certain position relevant to mark
Title: Re: What's this mark for?
Post by: deltarider on January 02, 2024, 01:18:56 PM
Ha, thanks! I ask myself why I have never wondered before, in all these 43 years of ownership...  :-[
Title: Re: What's this mark for?
Post by: Oddjob on January 02, 2024, 03:45:04 PM
There's also a special tool for the large clutch adjuster slot. To save chewing it up.
Title: Re: What's this mark for?
Post by: deltarider on January 02, 2024, 04:18:36 PM
There's also a special tool for the large clutch adjuster slot. To save chewing it up.
I wonder what that looks like. I have a tool that I - quite frankly - don't know what it is for, but it serves me well. My adjuster is easy to adjust. This was not years ago. I remember I had to use a hammer to educate him. It was almost like the different alloys of both the adjuster and the sprocket cover had become 'welded'. If it's free, it won't hurt to - after turning it fully counterclockwise - to smear a bit of grease on the then exposed inner rim of the hole. 
Title: Re: What's this mark for?
Post by: Oddjob on January 02, 2024, 04:34:48 PM
The special tool is 07709-0010001  https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/394824658021 or there is a Motion Pro alternative as the original special tool is very hard to find these days, Motion Pro 08-0087.

I've just bought 2 of the Motion Pro ones, they don't export outside the states BTW.
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