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The whole selector shaft assembly including new spring comes as a replacement kit and Aussie dealer Trevor has one in stock so its on the way. This is all new mechanical territory for me so I'll let you know how I go.
Jack,hogv8 wrote:Rob , your right about how easily it is to cross thread or strip threads in any alum. part especially cast alum. You want as much thread contact as possible so you should us as long bolt that you can . I even bottom tap holes in alum. when ever possible so I can use as long a bolt as possible and always and I mean always use anti seize on all bolts especially stainless Steel in alum.
As far as the misalignment of your tranny bolts it could be that your bottom engine mounts were not shimmed properly . If the engine mounts are not shimmed properly is creates a stress and miss aligns the tranny bolts at the rear tranny bolt holes and the pulley which in turn throws your belt out of alignment .
Jack
Ok, ok,, i was going to before you said it,,,, but you made me smile!Aussie Rob wrote:Precisely Jack and your words were echoing around in my head - last thing I did prior to replacing the pan was eyeball the mechanism and adjust the foot lever stops so they became effective...they werent doing a thing previously which may have been the contributor to the spring braking in the first place. I tend to stomp pretty hard on the gear lever when the lights go green and I been sitting in neutral all dreamy about the yummy mummy on the side walk so its nice to know I'm banging on the frame now and not the cheesy aluminium tranny casing.
Which leads me to a very important heads up for the young players here.
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A few years ago I was doing something else under there and removed the 2 main tranny bolts that are located at the underside of the swingarm and found that by doing this the belt tension can actually throw the whole drive train slighly out of misalignment - and when attempting to replace the bolts I found I had cross threaded and needed helicoils. These Nesco tanny casings dont like being bolted and unbolted - the cast aluminium is soft and you need to be extremely careful replacing threaded parts. Cross threading the tranny casing can really ruin your day so always finger starts & never overtighten...stick that in your file Darryl.