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Suzuki / Thrust Washers
« on: January 31, 2014, 05:20:00 PM »
After some advice, have popped the cylinder off the RM400T and lo and behold there are no thrust washers between the big end of the rod and the crank.
I've looked at the parts diagrams for that model on the cmsnl website and it shows thrust washers however there is no sign of them and a good friend who is also a very experienced mechanic says that he used to own another Suzuki that didn't have thrust washers and said that the rod looked like it was possibly designed to control thrust using the piston.
To me that seems odd given what the parts diagrams show.
So I was hoping if someone could set me straight on whether or not thrust washers are actually needed or not.
I've looked at the parts diagrams for that model on the cmsnl website and it shows thrust washers however there is no sign of them and a good friend who is also a very experienced mechanic says that he used to own another Suzuki that didn't have thrust washers and said that the rod looked like it was possibly designed to control thrust using the piston.
To me that seems odd given what the parts diagrams show.
So I was hoping if someone could set me straight on whether or not thrust washers are actually needed or not.