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CB400/4 ENGINE STRIP, ASSESSMENT AND REBUILD BY JULIE - NOW COMPLETE
Nurse Julie:
Re assembled the gear shift mechanism yesterday.
There are 4 parts. Only 3 show in this photo as even though I thought I had taken a pic of the gear shift spindle, I hadn't !!!
Left to right Neutral stopper arm, Positive stopper and gear shift drum stopper.
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The gear selector drum needs to be in neutral as identified by seeing the brass point through the hole on the opposite side of the casing
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First, the neutral stopper arm is fitted, with one end of the spring in the notch on the lever and the other end of the spring hooked on the crankcase. You can just about see the 2 ends of the spring in this photo.
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Then fit the gear shift drum stopper, once again locating the ends of the spring in the notch and the other hooked on the crankcase
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Then fit the positive stopper assembly with the two hairpins either side of the pivot post of the neutral stopper arm.
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Nurse Julie:
Then the gear shift spindle was pushed through to the other side and through the new seal
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This photo shows everything in its correct place with all bolts tightened up
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Finally, all gears were found and I have marked them on the drum stopper plate
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I will tell the truth here. I couldn't remember how I took this lot apart during stripdown and I hadn't taken a photo either, which is strange as I seem to have taken photo's of the most ridiculous silly little parts. I first reassembled it, trying to remember how it all went and failed miserably. I had all the parts in the right place but it was all just sitting there and I just couldn't work out how it was meant to function or operate. I had to get Trig to have a look and, stupid me, I had not jammed the ends of the springs against the casing and therefore they were just sitting in thin air and there was no tension and nothing would work. Stupid of me really, I even kept looking at the pictures in the manual etc and reading what to do and every time I missed the line saying 'and hook their springs into the crankcase'............never mind, all sorted now.
Nurse Julie:
And finally for yesterday a nice simple job, putting the 4 screws in the oil separation plate in the sump.........another little bit finished
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Spitfire:
It's so satisfying sitting there with a pile of clean refurbished/new parts and put an engine back together, I used to love it, keep up the good work.
Cheers
Dennis
Nurse Julie:
--- Quote from: Spitfire on December 20, 2017, 12:09:05 PM ---It's so satisfying sitting there with a pile of clean refurbished/new parts and put an engine back together, I used to love it, keep up the good work.
Cheers
Dennis
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Yes Dennis, it is rather nice working with all clean bits, it makes this job a lot more civilised than it could have been.
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