From: | Thomas FLH75 | e-mail: | flh1975@gmail.com |
Subject: | RE: RE: RE: RE: KICKSTART AGAIN | Date: | Thu Aug 9 04:43:34 2012 |
Response to: | 4232 |
Barry pics would help to explain what you have done. Thks Thomas ----- ORIGINAL MESSAGE FOLLOWS ----- Well here at the "funny farm" I discovered the repop kicker return spring ( got to blame something) was pushing the kicker arm out enough to cause the teeth to disengage. On the other side I made a "stepped" key for the drive sprocket as I think I must be using a jd sprocket as the keyway is .250" and the Hen shaft is 3/16" . Don't have too much faith in that so I put a drop of green loctite on the taper and blue stuff on the threads. The sidecar brake shoe material was way to agressive and tried to twist the wheel around the frame, so had to make a stabilizer plate and changed the linings to good old rivetted "raybestos" ( part of Canada's never ending contribution to worldwide lung cancer, too bad it doesn't work as population control, there I go talking to myself again) ----- ORIGINAL MESSAGE FOLLOWS ----- Hey Barry, I used to have the same concern. I have had the badly bruised toes to prove it. At the risk of over-simplication, On my bike, I found that if the kicker is allowed to go down to the 3 oclock position, it never ever slips. The arm must go down quite far to get off the cam that holds the gears apart when the the arm is at rest. Once I got into that habbit, I never had a problem. BTW I shipped your sprocket this morning. ----- ORIGINAL MESSAGE FOLLOWS ----- Me again, talking to myself. Took the kicker mechanism apart and carefully undercut just a tad the gear teeth that bolt to the mainshaft. Pretty crude but seems to be effective and I didn't grind through the hardening. I think a stronger spring would help things but again it is a weird shape , what was it about Henderson and square section springs? ----- ORIGINAL MESSAGE FOLLOWS ----- there is NO way that Henderson could have sold thousands of 4's mostly ridden by donut chomping cops unless they came with a kickstart mechanism that worked perfectly every time. today we are dealing with worn out and incorrectly heat treated gears. does anyone make quality replacements or should I have some made? |