Always check your mounts

[alexanderfoti]

Tim's lovely superdream has served me well, I have done well over 1000 miles since I bought it, and made a fairly large number of changes.

for the past 300 miles or so, I have been getting a slight grumbling at part throttle, It could be felt through the pegs and felt like it was coming from the back wheel.

I stripped the primary down and found a fair bit of play in the secondary shaft, or so I thought.

Turns out it wasn't from the bearings, but the mount on the belt side, It was probably only moving 2-3 mm under load, but it was enough for the drive system to feel odd. I think as its a toothed belt, the teeth weren't riding parallel and that's what I was feeling.

There was no evidence that the belt wasn't running true, no fraying, rubber bits etc.







I must say, every part of the mounting, secondary bearings etc seems vastly over engineered, took a good 3 hours to get to this stage, which is good!

It does seem that Tim shares the same odd welding glitch that I do though At least the grumbling wasn't in my mind (as my GF was convinced it was)

[pietenpol2002]

But, just because you found a failed mount is no assurance the GF is going to alter her assessment of your cognitive functioning. And do resist the overwhelming urge to invoke the "I told you so" retort.

BTW, nice diagnostic work on that mount Alex.

[alexanderfoti]

hehehe you are not wrong there!

Thanks, 500 miles or so since the repair. No problems yet.