Sounds like my one wheelie I did. Only done one ONCE and that's enough to learn my lesson.Yeah, my thoughts too. The one thing I DON'T want is to make this tiny motor faster. I did 25 pedaling a street bike, ONCE. I see no non painful future in high speeds on bicycle tires and brakes. H.
You can try Garlock's catalog here... http://allsealsinc.com/klozure_catalog.pdfI'll bet. Ceramic balls would be good, too :=) Ok, broke the bad joke rule. Since you seem to be a real wrench, do you know any stock numbers for U.S. made seals? I'll find them, just looking for a shortcut. Also, is anyone pressing these wheels apart, and re assembling them successfully? They aren't quite Harley quality, are they? Thanks again, H.
No Doubt... considering the labor involved in splitting a case to true a crank or the actual truing and balancing, not to mention clutch issues too, I find $69 plus shipping a lot more appealing for a good bottom end that's already balanced... Sometimes it's easier (and in some cases cheaper) to replace than repair on these little engines. If you think 4 good bearings for the clutch and crank, better hardware, new seals and gaskets, you're already looking at around $60 or more... Now add in the labor to split the cases and swap out all the bearings or the amount of lathe time it takes to true a crank etc, and that price becomes even more appealing.about 6 or 7 years ago, I pulled a clutch hub apart & a crank & pressed them together & running again just so I'd know what that job is like - at these low prices for new parts, I'll never do them again
I am going to have to disagree from experience Dave. I installed the HD lightning and have been running it for the past few months. I never noticed any difference in performance over the stock $5 cdi and the $70 junker is crapping out on me on the high end with like 300 miles on it if that. My stock one has like 5k miles across three different builds. I say if you want performance slap your money elsewhere as this is just snake oil of the wild wild west here.The truth about the cdi's is still quite controversial since none of them truly show a timing curve, the people who bought the jaguar cdi's ended up disappointed since it slowed their bikes down, both in acceleration and top speed because the timing retards back too much, even on the hottest setting, the stock cdi prevails. The HD Lighting cdi is a much better product but performance is about equal to stock when a few people took the time to measure the speed and acceleration, the HD Lightning is well known to be very reliable tho. The Rocket cdi, the one that's simply encased in a pill bottle is another good one but pretty much the same with very close to equal to stock performance.
I've been just using the stock unit but keep a few spares, tho I've never had one fail on me. But if I was going to get an aftermarket cdi, the HD Lightning is the best quality.