reluctor wheel question
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reluctor wheel question I hear all this talk about reluctor wheel swapping and I just want to see If anyone knows how to clock the wheels on the crank for instance when swapping 58x to 24x or vise versa? I know how to get them on and off bc I had to remove one once to put some heavy metal in a crank to balance it but I scribed three lines before I removed it and just installed it the way it was before I removed it. but I want to know how these things are supposed to be clocked... Or for some crazy reason would it not matter? I would imagine the it has to be clocked a certain way so the computer knows where the crank is at any given time but I could be wrong... Anybody???
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I hear all this talk about reluctor wheel swapping and I just want to see If anyone knows how to clock the wheels on the crank for instance when swapping 58x to 24x or vise versa? I know how to get them on and off bc I had to remove one once to put some heavy metal in a crank to balance it but I scribed three lines before I removed it and just installed it the way it was before I removed it. but I want to know how these things are supposed to be clocked... Or for some crazy reason would it not matter? I would imagine the it has to be clocked a certain way so the computer knows where the crank is at any given time but I could be wrong... Anybody???
The commercially available tool handles this indexing, or make a tool based on a factory crank.
Goodson's tool is a very good investment for this, but it can be done without. Here's the instructions I found online for the 24X wheel alignment which can be basically carried over to the 58X.
"Looking down at the flywheel flange on the crank, there is a dowel hole between two of the six holes (assuming that you don't have one of the new 8-hole cranks). Call this the 12:00c position. The second holes down to the left and right, we'll call 9:00c & 3:00c respectively.
The side of the reluctor wheel facing you should have five large round holes (towards the lower half of the wheel) and a small (~8mm) indexing hole just to the right of the five large holes and two more holes (with a pyramid-shaped top) spaced 180* apart, at 9:00w & 3:00w if you will.
The alignment is to match the center of the 9:00 & 3:00 holes in the crank with the peaks of the pyramids of the 9:00 & 3:00 holes in the reluctor wheel (as in 9:00c to 9:00w and 3:00c to 3:00w)."
"Looking down at the flywheel flange on the crank, there is a dowel hole between two of the six holes (assuming that you don't have one of the new 8-hole cranks). Call this the 12:00c position. The second holes down to the left and right, we'll call 9:00c & 3:00c respectively.
The side of the reluctor wheel facing you should have five large round holes (towards the lower half of the wheel) and a small (~8mm) indexing hole just to the right of the five large holes and two more holes (with a pyramid-shaped top) spaced 180* apart, at 9:00w & 3:00w if you will.
The alignment is to match the center of the 9:00 & 3:00 holes in the crank with the peaks of the pyramids of the 9:00 & 3:00 holes in the reluctor wheel (as in 9:00c to 9:00w and 3:00c to 3:00w)."
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