Installing new clutch cable, the arm in the gearbox the cable connects to "dropped", no amount of fiddling with it will get it to left back up.

Am I doing something wrong, or do I have to remove the primary cover and ..............

I'm guessing here, as it hasn't happened to me (yet), but if the clutch adjuster at the pressure plate is backed right off to allow the pushrod to get clear of the ball bearing on the actuator, I see no reason why it shouldn't come back up and into position by pulling upward with something hooked into the cable slot.

I did notice that the lever isn't positively located on the pivot, i.e. free to drop but once the clearances are set it can't go anywhere.

Hope this helps

Andy, that does help.
It could be that because I am putting on a new clutch cable that it is shorter than the old from being stretched out from wear.
So it may just seem to me that the arm has dropped.
I have not disturbed anything inside the primary so if your are right that once everything is set there, the arm cannot drop?

highdesert wrote:Am I doing something wrong, or do I have to remove the primary cover and ..............

Pushrod adjustment should always be checked first, and with the lower end of the cable either detached from the forked end of the arm (or at least left loose) so you'd probably need to remove the access plug from the primary cover in order to adjust the pushrod clearance anyway.

http://www.classicbike.biz/Norton/Repai ... mmando.pdf
pdf pages 72 & 73.

The instructions say to back off the adjuster "one full turn", however I find that about half a turn is enough.

If the arm is set correctly, it should look like this?

got it now!
Thanks again

Les,

I just came accross your helpful, as usual, response to another forum member's problem. Your posting time, around 2:30 PM PST, reminded me to ask the two questions that have haunted me since this past summer when you walked me through my Mk3 rear-wheel problems, namely:

1. Do you have an archive of photos of every conceivable Norton part, or do you hustle out to the garage and disassemble your Mk3 for photos to respond to every question, and

2. God, man, do you ever sleep?

Your dedication to this forum and Norton motorcycles is awesome.

The same questions keep coming up, which makes it simple to just repost.

I think I've seen the clutch actuator picture at least once before.

rick in seattle wrote:1. Do you have an archive of photos of every conceivable Norton part,

No....not yet!

rick in seattle wrote:or do you hustle out to the garage and disassemble your Mk3 for photos to respond to every question

No,-not for every question, but that has been known to happen occasionally!

rick in seattle wrote:do you ever sleep?

Yes, but I only need around 5 or 6 hours sleep a night on-average.

rick in seattle wrote:Your dedication to this forum and Norton motorcycles is awesome.

Thanks!

(However, I expect most people would just consider me to be a sad case-who wasn't capable of finding something better to do with his time! )

hi rick its rumored that lab has a photographic memory ,so any posts he replies to are automatically acompanied by photos,does god sleep? no and neither does lab

A quick perusal of the word 'Lab' in the Greater Oxford English Dictionary has a photo of Les and his Norton alongside. It also elicits the information that 'Lab' is an ancient honour surviving from the dark ages, bestowed on warrior priests who maintain the arcane knowledge and wisdom of the ancients. The title is bestowed in a secret ceremony on one chosen for his prodigious memory and status as a polymath. Lab is short for the Latin 'labyrinthae' a reference to the compartmentalisation and retrieval of knowledge, as in a library.

The recipients of this honour are generally shy and retiring, although past holders include Lawrence of AraBia (notice the juxtaposition of the letters LAB) who provided a technical service forum, via carrier pigeon and Morse code to Brough Superior owners in the 1920s and 30s.

We are blessed to have a chosen one among us.

Thanks!

I'm speechless...

...well...almost.

However, I think the forum has been made what it is through the efforts of all of its members, many of whom regularly make time to contribute to it, and not forgetting Jerry of course who made it all possible in the first place.

I know I've learnt far more about Norton Commandos from this website than I ever could have found out anywhere else.

L.A.B. wrote:Thanks!

I'm speechless...

...well...almost.

However, I think the forum has been made what it is through the efforts of all of its members, many of whom regularly make time to contribute to it, and not forgetting Jerry of course who made it all possible in the first place.

I know I've learnt far more about Norton Commandos from this website than I ever could have found out anywhere else.

It is a veritable gold mine of information, isn't it?