Good call, Ed. I'm not certain if mine has the index mark quite that clearly visible, so I've not noticed it. It was rechromed by the PO, I think, so it may have got 'smudged' in the cleanup process. Neither do I see it on Wilf's, so we both appear to have inherited a similar index-obscuring disease. At least we now know.
I've only ever indexed mine as I previously described, but I've not had cause to actually remove the lever from the mechanism yet. At least I can re-index mine with a degree of authority and confidence when I strip the casing for painting soon.
Thanks from me, too!
Ugly Betty
I have 6 others which aren't punched and they are all OEM.
Now ya know why I keep this one. .......................lm
Ok, operation(s) complete! I pulled the arm and rotated it one spline CW and now it is as close as I can get to LM's pic and the ad photo.
Just in case it didn't work out, I also did the PhotoShop "repair", adding a little punch mark to the arm for future reference (I didn't want to damage the chrome by punching the 'real' arm). And I was feeling pretty good about it all until I discovered that every single one of my Paris Hilton photos is now rotated 15 degrees CCW, and there is a little punch-mark of a mole above her left eye! So thanks a whole bunch, Steve, for bringing the whole issue up in the first place!!!! :( Thanks guys. I'd take a photo, but we've got rain today. Wilf
Arf arf! Sorry Wilf but, as my old man used to say: "If your mate Greg told you to put your head in a bucket of water, would you?!" (usually following a misdemeanour whereby I'd retort "Greg told me to do it!")
You don't have to follow my obsessiveness..... So Paris Hilton pushes her BMW into a gas station. She tells the mechanic it died. After he works on it for a few minutes, it is idling smoothly. She asks, 'What's the story?' He replies, 'Just crap in the air filter' She asks, 'How often do I have to do that?'
Paris was playing Trivial Pursuit one night... It was her turn. She rolled the dice and she landed on Science & Nature. Her question was, 'If you are in a vacuum and someone calls your name, can you hear it?' She thought for a time and then asked, 'Is it on or off?'
I had a closer look at my k/s today; it does have the punch mark -- and it's about 170º removed from the index on the shaft! To be fair, I've never used my kickstarter as the pawl is shagged. But I'll set it up as per Ed's Other Recipe once I've fixed & painted stuff, pawl included. How overstressed would our bikes be without Our God, Who Art In Kerrville? Thanks again Ed. So, I'm trying to understand my shifting difficulties and I don't want to hijack Spargett's Restoration Log with more questions about my machine. I did reply to one of his posts about my difficulty in finding 2nd gear and wondered if my shift linkage was set properly. LM responded saying the shift arm should be indexed at 11 o'clock. That's where we left off and where this line of discovery continues...
I think my shift arm points to 11 o'clock but there may be time zone differences between Texas and me :) But how is the arm indexed? You can see in the pic that the shift shaft end is pretty mangled and has denied me a definitive punch mark. I can put the arm on any spline I choose but without marks I'm nowhere. Are there marks showing in the pic that I'm not seeing? I wonder about the free-play in the shift linkage. The first pic shows the shifter at rest, and the second shows me lifting the shifter up to its point of resistance. The freeplay at the toe rubber is 5/8" (160 mm). I'm not sure what it should be, if anything at all. At this point I don't know if my shifter shaft/linkage adjustments are the cause of the difficulty or if my shifting technique is no good. These are the symptoms: 1...difficulty shifting up from 1st to 2nd--I seem to arrive in neutral, and then when I try again, at lower rpm's it will shift. Downshifting from 2nd to 1st is fine. 2...for the life of me, I can't easily get into neutral from 1st. I don't get a neutral light and I have to stall the engine and then rock back and forth shifting up and down between 1st and 2nd in order to finally find neutral. It seems easier when I go from 2nd down the half-step to neutral than when I try going up from 1st to neutral. In summary, my shift shaft indexing may be incorrect; my shifter linkage adjustment may need tweaking; my shifting technique may be wrong. Or maybe my clutch is not adjusted properly?? Any suggestions would be gratefully received. Thanks, Wilf
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