Monday, 9 March 2009

Mag / Flywheel bearing installation

Here's the bits that go into the magneto housing. An outer oil seal, a cup to retain the outer seal, the bearing, a larger inner oil seal, and a big meaty circlip to keep everything in.

My photo doesn't show them in any order:



There were no problems slotting all this into place - again I used the old bearing as a help, but the big circlip was a problem for my puny circlip pliers. Here it is all greased up and ready:



I used nyloc stainless nuts to fit the mag housing, and grease on the gasket for a tight seal but to aid future removal. When fitted I checked there was no rubbing against the crack using a feeler gauge:

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