A65 layshaft end float ?

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• May 17, 2022

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This layshaft has .022 end float. BSA offers 3 different shims to take this up. No info in Haynes manual. Is .022 too much? Norton often is around .044.

 

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• May 18, 2022

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The Clymer as well as the Chilton manual say movement of the layshaft "should be just perceptible".
No value given.

 

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• May 18, 2022

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OK...I'm going back in and shim it.

 

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• May 19, 2022

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Onder said:

I worked for an old time BSA racer back in ancient times and he insisted on three thou end float.
I never liked that bush approach esp as it was not end fed through the crank. The SRM
mod always seemed appealing.

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This is about layshaft endfloat not crankshaft

 

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• May 19, 2022

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Thanks, shows what old age does to us....:-(