Nelson Rideouts - Where next?

[umopom]

Good to see you all today - must do it again sometime soon. John hope you got home OK?
Cheers
JC (the stupid pommie git)

[RogIrwin]

Good to see you all today - must do it again sometime soon. John hope you got home OK?

Cheers John, really enjoyed today. I'm keen for another.

[Woodman]

We all learned how a Rekluse clutch works today. Dismantling it, was as it turned out un-necessary, but we can all file the info we got somewhere in our brains just in case we need it one day.

We all also learned/re-iterated that, before you dive into fixing something it is a good idea to check the basics first.

[CrazyFrog]

Well, John got as far as town okay, he took his chances and carried on home from there.
Clutch was still slipping under power, but grabbing enough to get forward momentum, so managed 30-40 kmph most of the way down the Maitai.
Glad to be able to help nurse the WRF home. Uphills were a bit of a struggle, forgot how heavy 120kg trail bikes were to push.

Next time we might get more than 25 km from home

[Old bones]

Well that was a ride with some variety! For me it carried on as I started(forgot to turn the fuel on.)
Enjoyed meeting all you gentlemen again as well as the new faces (to me)
Was enjoying it until the Rekluse failed to provide forward motion! To cut a long story short Woodman and Nordi came back and proceeded to sort things out while I supplied snakes and moral support. Then the rest of the team came back expecting bodies and body bags, but all was well in that department.Eventually got going only to stop again. At this point the wise advice was to go home and as it turned outwas just as well.
At this stage I must thank Ward (crazy frog) who escorted and rode my bike most of the way out to see that I got out safely. I doubt I would have made It up A couple of the hills by myself.
Got back to the matai and said goodbye to Ward then it was 40-50km/h all the way back to home.
Along Appleby straight Checked me out said it was routine then when I said if I had been going faster would you have stopped me and he said no and laughed when I said I had a stuffed clutch
Many thanks to NADS for being concerned and helping while I stuffed up their ride.
Cheers
John

[NordieBoy]

We all learned how a Rekluse clutch works today. Dismantling it, was as it turned out un-necessary, but we can all file the info we got somewhere in our brains just in case we need it one day.

We all also learned/re-iterated that, before you dive into fixing something it is a good idea to check the basics first.

Only got it working properly for about a km.
Hopefully got it on video, revs started picking up and forward motion started dropping off...

[NordieBoy]

Looks like about 400m north of the locked gate up the Tinline, there's a ford that let's you get across to the other side...
I think it's the one I noticed and indicated on the way back, you guys stopped at it and then we all continued back to the gate...

Maybe...

[NordieBoy]

Well that was a ride with some variety! For me it carried on as I started(forgot to turn the fuel on.)
Enjoyed meeting all you gentlemen again as well as the new faces (to me)
Was enjoying it until the Rekluse failed to provide forward motion!

What year WR and what model Z Start Pro?

[pete-blen]

warping the steel plates is a issue with the Rekluse Z start if yer to
easy on the throttle and letting it slip to much heating the clutch..
they were designed with racing in mined... might pay to try some
heavyer tunston balls to produce more force at lower revs..

the Z start also speeds up the notching of the clutch basket
fingers...thus not letting the plates slide...

just hit the throttle harder it cures/stops a lot of the issue with the Rekluse...

[Old bones]

What year WR and what model Z Start Pro?

It's a 2007 wr and the only info I have on the model is that it is an RMS- 873 which is supposed to be for the Yamaha WR 450F (07-12) and theYZ450F(05-09)

I haven't had time to pull it out to check it yet as I have been busy and most likely won't be able to do it until next week some time.

I did notice that it should have tungsten balls where 3 are missing according to the list of parts.
So what Pete-Blen says is probably what I should do.

John

[pete-blen]

I did notice that it should have tungsten balls where 3 are missing according to the list of parts.
So what Pete-Blen says is probably what I should do.

John

how meany balls dose your unit hold ?
3?..... usaly there is a even number of balls.. so they should be omited in even numbers...
IE... 2 / 4 / 8 etc... 3 missing would throw the unit out of balance aswell as give uneven pressure...

[Old bones]

Hi Pete

There are 24 ball bearings in there in an 8-0-8-0-8-0 pattern.

In reading the info I have here the tungsten balls would be every ninth position with total being 27

John

[NordieBoy]

24 balls is the soft engagement setting. 27 is the recommended hard engagement setting. Tungsten balls are heavier and more suited to fatter riders.

[NordieBoy]

Motorised bicycle crashing into ditch kills rider. Doesn't sound like your ordinary little 30cc motor...

Man killed in motorised bicycle crash

[Ally67]

Motorised bicycle crashing into ditch kills rider. Doesn't sound like your ordinary little 30cc motor...

Man killed in motorised bicycle crash

Theres 2 fellas with those up the Brooklyn valley and they fair snot along


Make that one fella now