Clutch Question?

[tomtom]

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[boilermaker]

Tom
The "special tool" is indeed an old socket welded to a (scrap) bearing outer race which as you say was "castellated" using a cutting disc. My friend Nick Roskelly (yes it is a Cornish family) has a wonderful workshop of the kind we probably all remember as kids with all sorts of useful bits and pieces around the place and Nick himself is a Mechanic in the true sense of the word, not a parts fitter. So if an old Boilermaker and a not so old Mechanic can't make a tool between them its a poor old world.

[tomtom]

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[boilermaker]

or even a doohickey!

[tomtom]

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[iceman]

George
nice job on the clutch tool.Good find on the spring also.Do you always use the clutch when upshifting ? I'm guessing you do.A lot of people don't is why I ask.

[boilermaker]

John/Iceman
Yes I do always use the clutch when upshifting, (as I suspect do you). I know its a "modern" trend to clutchless upshift and to downshift without matching revs but most of us ride properly and have spent years when we were younger nursing old/fragile machinery just to get to work so, any form of mechanical abuse is abhorrent.

[tomtom]

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[iceman]

i think he's asleep

wakey wakey werner

Tom,
From post number 3

I think the answer to his problem was answered in post number 2 by George/boilermaker just a guess though.

[boilermaker]

Tom
I think the reason for the co-operation on this site is that we all own a machine that was never built as a fashion statement and the manufacturer no longer exists (for all intents and purposes). This situation renders us all comrades in adversity. As one of my kids said to me once (in a rare moment of insight) "only airheads form cliques".

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[iceman]

When I read this "only airheads form cliques" first thing that came to mind was BMW.

Over here they have huge cliques/groups/yearly meetings where the will travel 2/3000 miles to be together...

[iceman]

i think he's asleep

wakey wakey werner

Now i know why i kept flunking exams, I never took the time to read what went before

Tom,have a look here http://www.gonewzealand.com/americas-ne ... ealand.cfm

I think he changed his oil and hasn't been home since !! Looks like a cool place.

[peaster]

I don't know about you Northern hemisphere type but some of us actually live in New Zealand. And we ride MZ1000s. Mine in a red SF with 20,000 km. Admittedly not many people here (only 4 million) and probably only 6 or so MZ1000s at most. Any one who wants advise about riding down here, just add a post .....

[Stephenonz]

Hello peaster, nice to see another NZ MZ 1000 owner. I've got an ST I bought a couple of years ago. Its had a couple of problems (as many bikes do), but its a brilliant bike to ride on the open road. Trust your MZ is treating you OK. Stephen, Lower Hutt