cush drive buffers another question
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but seriously folks....the price of the cush drive kit ....buy three of them ...just in case of MURPHY.... :mrgreen:
but seriously folks....the price of the cush drive kit ....buy three of them ...just in case of MURPHY.... :mrgreen:
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:lol: :lol: If it wasn't going down the tubes it is now :lol: :lol:
:lol: :lol: If it wasn't going down the tubes it is now :lol: :lol:
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The cush buffers on my bike gave up the ghost in the desert someplace in Nevada, the buffers were in chunks. I cut up a set from a piece of road gator and made it home but the rubber was trying to squeeze it's way out. Went back to some new stock ones. I think anything soft enough to actually work won't stay put due to the design.xbacksideslider said:
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Bob, the ones in my wheel are crumbling to dust.
Bob, the ones in my wheel are crumbling to dust.
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Sexual lingo is impossible to avoid in plumbing to mechanics, maybe why boys do it more?
Hmm just remembered I've a stack of destroyed tires, behind shed, as reminder I actually did ride a bit. I've a loose rear wheel/hub, could go check thickness and cut up a bunch of pads if anyone wants to try that before I do. Hm, would road or race compound be better or nicer'? Could we tell?
1/3" ice layer under 8" crisp snow today, so nothing for it but take 4wd short bed mud cleated ice spiked tires out to check mail and visit friends few miles away on eerie smooth soft leveled out Gravel paths. About 1/2 ton load of wood in back but dang thing climbs steeps just fine, unless i blip throttle then all 4 spin up, even going down hill hehe. Tomorrow 3 of us will make 4 wd snow angles in open pasture that looks like long ocean swells do to a boat. If I'd a bike working I'd already been out on it. Great practice for not crashing taking harsh corners in perfect conditions.
Sexual lingo is impossible to avoid in plumbing to mechanics, maybe why boys do it more?
Hmm just remembered I've a stack of destroyed tires, behind shed, as reminder I actually did ride a bit. I've a loose rear wheel/hub, could go check thickness and cut up a bunch of pads if anyone wants to try that before I do. Hm, would road or race compound be better or nicer'? Could we tell?
1/3" ice layer under 8" crisp snow today, so nothing for it but take 4wd short bed mud cleated ice spiked tires out to check mail and visit friends few miles away on eerie smooth soft leveled out Gravel paths. About 1/2 ton load of wood in back but dang thing climbs steeps just fine, unless i blip throttle then all 4 spin up, even going down hill hehe. Tomorrow 3 of us will make 4 wd snow angles in open pasture that looks like long ocean swells do to a boat. If I'd a bike working I'd already been out on it. Great practice for not crashing taking harsh corners in perfect conditions.
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Steve race would be softer. Car tires would probably be the hardest. I won't be able to test until Spring especially after tonight's massive Blizzard.
Steve race would be softer. Car tires would probably be the hardest. I won't be able to test until Spring especially after tonight's massive Blizzard.
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I so nor want to try to cut up a car or truck tire, I'm only talking about 19, 18 or 17" cycle tires. The race only ones are pretty thin even in center section new. Worn to cords they are like stockings not even light runner shoe bulk/mass.
Nail your Cdo torque good a few times then check for chewing gum like factory pads. Maybe a mold could be made for a finger cot/thimble like cover, made from tough stuff like ployurothane?
I so nor want to try to cut up a car or truck tire, I'm only talking about 19, 18 or 17" cycle tires. The race only ones are pretty thin even in center section new. Worn to cords they are like stockings not even light runner shoe bulk/mass.
Nail your Cdo torque good a few times then check for chewing gum like factory pads. Maybe a mold could be made for a finger cot/thimble like cover, made from tough stuff like ployurothane?
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nope I think you need to find a hard truck tire and make the pieces out of that or it will fail. :wink:
nope I think you need to find a hard truck tire and make the pieces out of that or it will fail. :wink:
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As I tried to say, I'm pretty happy with the endurance of multi-layer fiber re-enforced 1/4" thick rock conveyor belt and have enough to service mine for next decade, so hadn't considered old tires treads or side walls. I don't think it takes much compliance to protect for what ever it can, just as long as not the shock loads of metal to metal all the way back to the push rods impulses.
Personally, going by reports of non issue on serous long term racers and others w/o any cushion in drive train, the main concern is to take up drive train slack paddles w/o pads would give. I don't yet know if Its my routine slow lugging chugging or my routine almost red line shifts to get to speed entering hwy up a steep with a near by blind traffic can shoot around at full speed any time.
As I tried to say, I'm pretty happy with the endurance of multi-layer fiber re-enforced 1/4" thick rock conveyor belt and have enough to service mine for next decade, so hadn't considered old tires treads or side walls. I don't think it takes much compliance to protect for what ever it can, just as long as not the shock loads of metal to metal all the way back to the push rods impulses.
Personally, going by reports of non issue on serous long term racers and others w/o any cushion in drive train, the main concern is to take up drive train slack paddles w/o pads would give. I don't yet know if Its my routine slow lugging chugging or my routine almost red line shifts to get to speed entering hwy up a steep with a near by blind traffic can shoot around at full speed any time.
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Good one. :lol: Bikes are like women with the benefit that they don't argue . . . . except when you go too far.
pvisseriii said:After said procedure will "I have to pull my weight forward to hold the front end down, and then the rear wheel spins"?xbacksideslider said:
Good one. :lol: Bikes are like women with the benefit that they don't argue . . . . except when you go too far.
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Couple more questions regarding the buffers. I got the replacements and looking at them they are hard plastic. I can't imagine these holding up long and this leads me to the question Are they really necessary if I am not riding the bike hard or are they really necessary period? I was thinking I should be able to have steel or aluminum blocks cut and fit in place instead of the hard plastic buffers that are replacements now? Seems metal would wear a lot less and changing them would be minimal, but what effect does this have on the final drive?
Couple more questions regarding the buffers. I got the replacements and looking at them they are hard plastic. I can't imagine these holding up long and this leads me to the question Are they really necessary if I am not riding the bike hard or are they really necessary period? I was thinking I should be able to have steel or aluminum blocks cut and fit in place instead of the hard plastic buffers that are replacements now? Seems metal would wear a lot less and changing them would be minimal, but what effect does this have on the final drive?
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There are a number of reports both street and racers w/o trouble san cush drive for years and years of use. Mainly don't lug and chug, which is bad for bearings to cogs even with cushions. One things for sure ya don't want the extra slack in there from chewed up cushions or too slack solid spacers.
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Take careful measurements/pics/stencils of the ones you have; maybe make some replacements for later; install the new ones and run them until they wear out.
The layshaft in our transmissions can "snap like a carrot" when subjected to shock loads, especially in 1st gear. Even accelerating over a pot hole or jumping off a curb can do it.
Those little pads give you a margin of protection; they take just enough of the shock out.
That said, I have to admit that I run an Atlas rear wheel which has no cush whatsoever and is easier on the two piece axle. I run the risk.
The layshaft in our transmissions can "snap like a carrot" when subjected to shock loads, especially in 1st gear. Even accelerating over a pot hole or jumping off a curb can do it.
Those little pads give you a margin of protection; they take just enough of the shock out.
That said, I have to admit that I run an Atlas rear wheel which has no cush whatsoever and is easier on the two piece axle. I run the risk.
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