Saturday 17 November 2012

Starter Idle Gears (Day 91)

I originally started this blog in order to make a photographic catalogue of the parts of the bike as it was being dismantled.  This was in order that I would know how to put them back together again.  Sometimes the blog gets hijacked by my desire to verbalise the whole process and turn it into a drama.  In order to set it back on it's originally intended course, I now include some parts photos.
 The starter idle gear.  Transfers the power from the starter motor (top right cog) through the idle gear (middle) to the starter fly gear (teeth to the left).
 Nearly lost this washer on the back (is it a thrust washer).  I heard a tinkling sound as I pulled the gear off then I found the beast stuck behind the big starter clutch cog.