Leaving the pub one night a mate of mine was trying to pull away on his C15
The gods work in mysterious ways . The Gravity God at work .Leaving the pub one night a mate of mine was trying to pull away on his C15
It would move about a foot then stop
He tried it several times
Turned out a bit of rag have come out of his toolbox and dropped onto the drive chain !!
I always make a slight mess emptying the oil tank into my waste oil container. This time I rigged up a neat plastic funnel and jacked up the container so it trapped the funnel nicely onto the drain hole.
So, pair of RGM discs with E-rings securing the collets….moving the bike heard a “ping” but nothing untoward…rode 40 miles , stopped at some lights. Went to pull away and “clunk”…bike not moving. A collet had migrated and hit a fork leg, fractured the disc and the carrier at pull away speed…how lucky was I
Bugger .So, pair of RGM discs with E-rings securing the collets….moving the bike heard a “ping” but nothing untoward…rode 40 miles , stopped at some lights. Went to pull away and “clunk”…bike not moving. A collet had migrated and hit a fork leg, fractured the disc and the carrier at pull away speed…how lucky was I
Who did your custom harness Mark?
Bonzo, was this all a result of poorly routing the clutch cable then? It looks to me that it is. I just want to be sure. When I get home from holiday I plan to look at my routing to make sure it is correct. I don't have any issues, but things are pretty tight in the battery area. Les, do you have a diagram of the correct routing of the clutch cable, if one exists?....riding along yesterday, thinking how great the bike was running, when I noticed that my Venhill featherlight clutch that I love so much, felt a bit more 'grabby' than usual, a few seconds later the red warning light briefly flicked on before the bike cut out.
Smoke coming from the battery area!!
Ignition off, seat off quickly and fuse out and I spotted the problem.
I really am such a dopey tw*t at times
The new battery that I had recently fitted was shorting out (live terminal against the clutch cable).
It basically melted the covering of the cable, which in turn melted anything near it.
I know it could have been so so so much worse, but I really do need to have a word with myself and start paying attention.
Leaving the pub one night a mate of mine was trying to pull away on his C15
It would move about a foot then stop
He tried it several times
Turned out a bit of rag have come out of his toolbox and dropped onto the drive chain !!
For trans, buy the hemmings DVD and do what he says.
So, thing I omitted : the “ping” I heard was an E spring departing from the respective collet.So, pair of RGM discs with E-rings securing the collets….moving the bike heard a “ping” but nothing untoward…rode 40 miles , stopped at some lights. Went to pull away and “clunk”…bike not moving. A collet had migrated and hit a fork leg, fractured the disc and the carrier at pull away speed…how lucky was I
Thanks Bonzo. I'll still like to take a look at my bike when I get back to look things over and all that since I did so much to that area of the bike with the carb rework and I did change my battery out when I installed the PODTronics module in place of the old regulator/zener setup.As Les suggests, I don't think the routing of the clutch cable was the issue (I simply followed the original routing and it was fine).
Before I fitted the new battery, the other one was smaller in width & length, so I could sling it to the side (the down side to it being smaller was that it would often shift with vibration). No, I installed the new battery (a Motobatt MBTX20) and this fills the tray more. I used the older battery terminals orientation with the connections to the middle of the bike, strapped it in tight, but failed to insulate the - terminal from the clutch cable (I'll use the excuse that a mate I hadn't seen for ages popped in for coffee and I did the install amidst plenty of banter & piss taking).
In short (no pun intended), I made a school boy error and wasn't paying attention. On the plus side, it's given me a kick up the bum and as mentioned could've been so much worse. It's also necessitated a rewire that I wanted to do anyway (it's 50 years old), but would've rather done it in the winter. I've taken the easy(er) route and ordered a new harness from TMS.
A long way of saying, your cable routing should be fine
I might have that DVD. I think I purchased that and the fork build DVDs when I bought some stuff from the Norton Owners Club. I'll take a look for sure.
I like my CWL with pressure switch warning feature. Only nit pick is the requirement to run with suppressed ignition setup. 5k etc. Anyone running unsuppressed without affecting the CWL?
