Pilot bearing destroyed
Pilot bearing destroyed Last night i started to change the clutch and and found out that the pilot bearing was destroyed and the input shaft is pretty roughed up. here is a picture of what is left of the old pilot bearing.
Question is should i take the input shaft and have it polished or could i use some emery clothe and polish it that way?
Question is should i take the input shaft and have it polished or could i use some emery clothe and polish it that way?
When mine disintegrated, after installing a new $437 prop shaft, Tick told me to just polish with emery cloth. That was 3 1/2 years ago and no issues since. And that is with heavy use at a lot of track days
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Good luck with it.
.Good luck with it.
when mine ate itself it was silent in neutral and when the clutch was pressed in in neutral, but once you put it into gear it would make a low quiet gargle/grinding sound and continue even if you put it back into neutral as long as the clutch was in
I cleaned it up a bit and replaced it with a bronze oilite bushing so I don't have to worry about it again
I cleaned it up a bit and replaced it with a bronze oilite bushing so I don't have to worry about it again
Nope no noise but some vibration so it couldn't of happened that long ago which is good. Got it all back in tonight hopefully driving by the weekend.
Mine only made the grinding noise when engaging from a dead stop. It was also nearly completely shredded by the time I got it out. I debated about whether to do the bushing or bearing, and actually bought the bushing, but ended up going with bearing per Tick. Glad you got it all back together.
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Staging Lane
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Mine was pretty bad. Team SCSS said that worn input shaft could cause excess wear on the internals which would eventually lead to second popping out of gear (Wait, i think it was third) and hard to put into first gear.
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