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Tech Talk / Re: Circlip on countershaft
« on: June 29, 2024, 09:23:29 am »
This is getting a bit old now but I only lust read it. Circlips are use on a few different brands with success and the one that comes to mind are the Narrow case Maico's including the 490's. The biggest problem going with a clip on a motor designed for a nut is keeping the oil in as the nut is generally used to pull up against a sleeve that the seal runs on and without it the oil find a way out but it will negate the need to oil the chain ever again. I did once against my advice machine a circlip groove into a KX250 shaft after the thread had stripped to keep it working and I didn't hear anything bad happened. A better repair would be to weld the shaft end and re-thread it but that is a difficult repair.