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Title: Honda design failures.
Post by: Arch stanton on June 29, 2018, 09:28:00 PM
After spending £28 on a splendid looking wheel bearing retainer removal tool. Which I should imagine I would use only once.
Did it work? Did it F!!!
So I removed the retainer the same way as I had to 40yrs earlier. With a Hammer & Chisel.
What a stupid over engineered idea.
What was wrong with a Circlip?
It ranks alongside.
Honda inboard disc brakes &
Honda cable operated disc brake.
There are times I think the designers of these things
Were sniffing glue.
Rant over.
Ah that's better.
Sean.
Ps. NR500.
Title: Re: Honda design failures.
Post by: Green1 on June 29, 2018, 09:39:35 PM
You can't end your post NR500 without pics
Did you drill the punch mark?
Title: Re: Honda design failures.
Post by: K2-K6 on June 29, 2018, 09:58:21 PM
You couldn't get the head off with the engine in the frame on that one either  :D

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Title: Re: Honda design failures.
Post by: Arch stanton on June 29, 2018, 11:29:50 PM
Yup. Drilled the punch points.
I think the surface area of the threads overwhelms the strength of the aluminium its made of.

I forgot to mention the entire VF range.
Title: Re: Honda design failures.
Post by: SteveD CB500K0 on June 30, 2018, 06:58:12 AM

I forgot to mention the entire VF range.

Without which we’d never have had the VFR


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Title: Re: Honda design failures.
Post by: haynes66 on June 30, 2018, 07:53:11 AM
can you stop being rude about honda design failures. i actually like my DN-01!
Title: Re: Honda design failures.
Post by: gtmdriver on June 30, 2018, 07:58:40 AM
They went through a bad time with cam chain tensioners too but on balance I think it is fair to say that Honda designers got a lot more right than they got wrong.
Title: Re: Honda design failures.
Post by: Arch stanton on June 30, 2018, 10:23:13 AM
I agree. That's why they are the worlds biggest.
In my opinion. The Vfr engine. Is the best motorcycle engine ever built. By a long way.
The Cb/d engine is a masterpiece of performance/ simplicity. But lost the plot with the 200, imo.

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