Factory Pro EVO-7 Detent Star Kit
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| Bike all opened up and ready to be broken... |
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Stock parts on left, New parts on Right. | |||
![]() To align the Evil gear:
Thanks to Brendan L. McGowan |
This install was a pain, but usually
things are when you get this deep into an engine. I won't get into a
step by step, just point out where I had problems. Got everything out of the bike ok, installed the new arm, star, and spring with little issue. Bike was clicking through the gears as it should. Then I went to install the clutch basket and flywheel...problem #1. To the left is a picture of a rather boring looking gear, till you look alittle closer and see it's actually 2 gears on top of each other, spring loaded. The fly wheel needs to mesh into both of these gears, except once unloaded the top gear springs over 1/2 tooth. So now the teeth on the top and bottom gear are about 1 deg out of alignment. Took some wrestling and leverage but I finally torqued that gear set enough to sync up the 2 sets of teeth and pushed the flywheel home. Second issue, getting 94ft/lbs applied to the clutch center lock nut. My frist attempt had me using a long screwdriver to brace the clutch center...only to find out the clutch center spring bosses will snap at much less than 94ft/lbs. New clutch center ordered, 2nd try was putting a friend on the bike and putting it in 6th gear with both brakes on. Worked like a charm, and no broken parts! Now, how well does it work? So far so good. Have about 150mi seat time with the kit installed so far. Shifting is much quicker and smoother. It is a little more difficult to find neutral now because everything is so effortless...getting that half point between 1st and 2nd takes some skill. "Factory Pro designed, refined and
manufactured DETENT STAR, Factory Pro Microbearing Detent Arm, heavy duty
detent spring and gasket. Makes shifting quicker and more positive -
"virtually" eliminating those nasty missed shifts. The stronger detent
spring rotates the shift drum quicker, so the gears are more likely to
engage under quick shift conditions - and "lazy" ones, too - |
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