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Laverda Dave:
Sitting on the train travelling up to Halifax to collect my new but S/H VFR800 I remember now what was wrong with my kickstart. It was the U shaped bit in the end of the shaft where it locates in the crankcase. When I assembled it and the spring etc all was fine, nice a tight and full spring tension. However after a couple of kicks on the lever all the spring tension had gone and the lever didn't return. After a lot of head scratching I compared the S/H shaft with the knackered original (the kickstart splines were non existing on the original shaft and I bought a S/H from the US. On the s/h shaft the U shaped spring was turning on the shaft thereby allowing the whole shaft to turn independent of the spring and losing all tension. When I compared the s/h shaft with the original I found the U piece was firmly held on the shaft and didn't turn on it. I swapped the S/H U piece with the the one from the original and hey presto problem solved!
Hope this helps Mike.

mike the bike:
If you mean that L shaped piece of wire that fits through a hole in the crank case, that is supposed go be able to rotate.

mike the bike:
Problem solved.   It was the spring that had gone weak.   See pic.  The worn one is on the left.   Anyway,  it's all back together now, just need oil and petrol and an MOT.

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