On the way home from Maggie Valley the dreaded primary noise overcame the sweet sound of D&D Borzillas. All I could think was that we are 150 miles from home and this is not a good thing. So I made the corprate decision to ride the piss out of Bessie for that 150 miles. The weird thing that I couldn't understand was that if the rpm's were kept up over 2000 rpm then the noise became nonexistant.
Within 15 minutes of putting Bessie into the garage, she was torn down. Culprit....Primary chain stretched out, hitting the primary causing the noise.....Yes I was using a H-B125 auto primary tensioner.
Called Baker to order a new chain and they do not recommend the use of any auto tensioner. Reason...They put too much undo stress on the chain and this causes the chain to wear out premature....I can attest to that.....25,000 miles. As some of you might or might not know, when you change the trans gears out to a Baker DD6 then you have to change out the primary gears also. The compensator gearing is changed from a 25 tooth to a 28 tooth, so you use their chain.
Ordered their chain and tensioner shoe that they recommend and now the fun times begin.....have to find the old box that the stock tensioner is in....search for 1/2 day....too pissed to begin putting things back together Wednesday. So Thursday after work, yes I know work came before the bike, the work begins. I also have a new chrome starter that I am going to install because the one in the bike works sometimes, hinse the reason there is a push button on the starter.
Remove the starter jack shaft from the primary, install the primary gearing..neighbor comes over and tells me that there is a baby squirrel in her front yard that must have fallen out of the tree, so I go over and get the baby squirrel and put it in a box and find the little baby bottles we have, make up some formula and feed the little critter. now back to the bike...Oh chit, forgot to install the jack shaft...it won't go in with the clutch pack installed....off come the comp nut and clutch again....To install the starter you have to remove the oil fill housing..so you have to drain the oil. No problem needed a oil change anyway.
Install the jack shaft, primary set up and bolt everything back up. Fill her back up with oil...go to unscrew the oil filter which was very loose, Maybe this is where all the oil on the bottom of the motor came from.Oh well , fixed another problem. Bolt everything back up and fill it with oil, connect the battery, hit the starter switch, zing zing, but no zoom zoom. What the f*ck now....Off comes the primary again to see if the clutch pack on the starter is bad....after cussing very loudly and maybe throwing a few things across the garage..dumb azz me forgot to put the splined connector on the starter before installing it. :oops:time to
mass quanities of Crown and diet coke.
Now do I drain out the oil and remove the oil filler neck, to remove the starter to put this damn sleve on it or do I remove the inner pirmary and go about this backwards. Of course let's do it bass ackwards. Remove the inner primary and now find that the seal on the transmission shaft has been leaking for some time. So lets fix this while we are this far into it. Hinse the domino affect
If all goes well, should have Bessie back together today, but with my luck this will never hapen
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