A10 engine metal xmas tree decorations (shims)

[RichardL]

Agree, no doubt you will need them, but you’ll need plenty else as well. Bundle the shipping. Also, maybe you’re leaving the rebuild to someone else.

Richard L.

[Macbeth]

Agree, no doubt you will need them, but you’ll need plenty else as well. Bundle the shipping. Also, maybe you’re leaving the rebuild to someone else.

Richard L.

I'll def give it to someone mate. I do not have any facilities to do anything

[BSA500]

Solution for me, other that having the crank built up and machined(nobody near me to do it) was our old friend loctite.

By which, I trust you mean the bearing-gap filler type, as I have used (available for various gaps, of course).

yes that exact one the 641 

[Macbeth]

So what is the likelihood of any sever damage running the bike 3 klm (I found a BSA mech close by) Understanding that’s a mess of a question yet I’m thinking that shim may well have been in the sump for quite a while & frankly it’s runs very well. They obviously run with some float & thinking I may well be up for considerable further work anyway.

[Macbeth]

There you go - nothing happened. She ran the few klm’s like it was new

[berger]

this thread brings back memory's , i found my shim on the sump plate years ago and remember a clunk every time i kicked it up, the bike was thrashed for ages before i stripped it and sorted it. a bloke at a brit bike shop in derby told me the crank would find it's own place , but it played on my mind so sorted it

[limeyrob]

"The crank would find its own place"  I like the optimism, let's hope that's inside the engine .  I've seen at least one A10 where a con-rod decided it's place was in the gearbox...

[berger]

limeyrob i thought about him saying that as well but it was mainly a trihard shop, i put it right because this in the pic happened to me in 1980

[limeyrob]

Is that the dreaded journal radius?

[berger]

limeyrob before it got rusty and was fresh it certainly looked like the dreaded radius

[Worty]

Yer crank found its own place, eh Bergs

[berger]

worty that was the 1980 crank the crank he said would find it's own place has found it. it's still in the bike but shimmed up again

[Worty]

worty that was the 1980 crank the crank he said would find it's own place has found it. it's still in the bike but shimmed up again

Wot   You mean you repaired it

[berger]

worty get a grip that crank was toast , the one that lost it's shim is still in the bike

[Worty]

worty get a grip that crank was toast , the one that lost it's shim is still in the bike

Ahhhhh - I blame the beer