Fast Eddie
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Looks much better than your mk1 version Ken.
Looking forward to the next instalments ...!
Looking forward to the next instalments ...!
The kit from RGM includes a thinner steel plate, presumably to make the clutch pack thickness correct.
ken
i have been doing the steels like that for a while. i will say the ones i have are very hard and requires a lot of resharpening but is worth while even with stock friction plates as it increases the torque capacity of the clutch.
Hi Bill and Ken, have you weighed the modified stack using RGM friction plates against a standard 850 5 plate stack?
-Knut
I'll have to measure the friction plates. It might be that I have the thicker ones. I did measure the thickness of the RGM steel plate, and it was thinner than the stock ones, but not by much. At the moment, the stack is high enough that I can't fit the snap ring, so I will have to do something to sort it.
With the four narrowed stock plates and one thinner RGM plate, the clutch pack is still a little too tall to be able to fit the RGM pressure plate.
Hi Bill and Ken, have you weighed the modified stack using RGM friction plates against a standard 850 5 friction plate stack?
-Knut
i was not doing it to save weight as i run the surflex fiber plates which are a lot lighter than the bronze and don't have the spline wear issues of the barnetts. the sole reason is to increase the torque capacity of the clutch as the effective mean radius is increased.
That's five plain plates and there should only be four.
i was not doing it to save weight as i run the surflex fiber plates which are a lot lighter than the bronze and don't have the spline wear issues of the barnetts. the sole reason is to increase the torque capacity of the clutch as the effective mean radius is increased.