1981 Honda 900F Super Sport

Chrisraven

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I am having trouble trying to figure out how to put the clutch basket back on the shaft. The primary gear has another thin gear in front of it that is covering the primary gears teeth so the basket will not go past the thin geared washer. It looks like the thin gear is held on with a 10mm allen head bolt, but if I take it off, (Id I can), then the clutch basket covers up the acess to the allen head so I cannot tighten the 10mm allen wrench.
The manual is referring to a honda tool that holds the primary gear, but not sure how that works.

Any input??

Thanks
Chris
 
Hello Chris,
this part of the assembly has me tricked as well.
What I dont understand is what that thin gear is for and is it supposed to be free spimming after the securing bolt is torqued up.
I did find info about having to align the gear teeth with the crankcase parting line, but nothing else about this small gear.
Cheers
 
The thin gear has a tooth count of one different to the main gear and the hex bolt holds down against a friction washer to make the thin gear stiff to turn. This is deliberate by Honda, to help quieten any backlash between primary gear and clutch basket. The teeth of the thin gear and primary pinion only line up at one position, you turn the crank to get this tooth alignment in line with the clutch basket and it slides right on.
 
Thanks for the reply Mr Badger.
That makes sense.
I did end up finding info in a Haynes manual which I will post
Cheers
 
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