James came round on Saturday and we had planned to get this primary side (fucked at both ends!) all sorted. Alas our plans were foiled... James made up a really nice little puller for my seal but had made it to the id of the rotor where it meets the crank and there's a shoulder/step on the shaft after that, so unfortunately it didn't fit (sorry James!). Anyway we did get my new bearing to drop into the cltuch basket nicely... however when we put the clutch centre into the bearing it's obvious that the clutch centre itself is a little too undersized, and as a result it's spinning in the bearing (rather than spinning the bearing!), AND there's still heaps of play in the whole piece when we put it on the mainshaft! Real fucker. James noticed that the splines on the mainshaft (or maybe on the clutch centre?) are worn too, so that's also contributing to this play. Argh. Next up we tried cold soldering some silver into the keyway on the crank... the thinking being that we could then file it down to fit the key. However the silver wouldn't stick. James was trying to 'cold weld' it and my guess is that the metal (the shaft) just wasn't getting hot enough? Also the flux seemed to be getting fried before the silver would melt. He's gonna check this out with his boss and see what's up this week. So yeah we kinda got nowhere! Really appreciate James coming round to lend a hand though, and I'm in no hurry with this bloody thing eh...
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