LOOSE IDLER SPINDLE SYNDROME

Hi, my name is Peter and I suffer from loose idler spindle syndrome. Yes, yes I know, thank you for your consolations.
In order to adjust the cam chain I must place a sacrificial timing cover in place. This spindle can be push in and out cold and not realizing the position of the oil hole and the end slot; I must assume that it may rotate a bit.

The service note suggests copper plating the end to an interference fit. Has anyone out there really done this? And if so, would this be a copper sulfate solution and a 2 volt transformer situation or a professional needs situation with the cyanide and all that other nasty ass stuff? Or is there another way...new/used cases, machining the bore and pressing in a sleeve.......?

I had the same issue and had mine copper plated at my local platers. Wrap insulating tape over the spindle area you don't want plating. You will probably find you dont need much copper on there at all, I had to put mine in the chuck of a drill and remove a lot with emery paper. Perfect one time fix you will never need to go back too, previously I had tried loctite and it had always spun when checked later.
Best

Perhaps the proper way is to do like Mick in his DVD, he puts a new bush in the case, but that would involve breaking the bottom end apart. You may look at Caswell's plating site, they have a lot of plating stuff and if you get the "plug and plate" stuff it can be very reasonable and you can do it with immersion and a small wall wart too, but I am not sure what I would use to plate. They may have some suggestions.

Dave
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