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Fitted my ROAS manuals yesterday, follwing the instructions it was a doddle. TBH the hardest part was getting the breather pipes on and off the airbox, also fuel pouring out of the tank when I pulled the pipe off ! I adjusted as recommended, hand tight then back off 1/4 turn and the bike sounds swe...

BTW if I'v got up anyones back didnt mean to, I have a negitive side and usually see where a flaw can occur, been working within the hydraulic industry for the last 15 years and my current position is QA Manager, I always seek weaknesses in any design, try then to eliminate any chances of failure, s...

I think you've been a bit hard on the guy there Tray. As I'm in the final month of my engineering degree, I can fully understand your point that a correctly designed spring is the best solution. Unfortunately you won't get many marks for that. A lot of the time you end up doing totally pointless ta...

Ill add my tuppence worth in the hope that it will avert a flame war. I do understand the original post and realise that Beamish was asking for help to complete a college course which sometimes bears no resemblance to real world solutions (I know this because I work in the education sector). The wh...

beamish m8, id do honestly apoligise if I implyed that you are a, well see posts above, this was not my intension and I did not think it would snowball like this, the power of words are easy to use when you are sat behind a keyboard :lol: you get time to think a bit too much into a discussion would ...

Guys not been trying to be a smart ass but, as firestorm owner we all know there may be a problem with auto ccts, the design is ok but the spring is weak yes???, solution is a better grade of wire material, problem for firestorm owners is it too old. As a fix we have been recomended manual ccts, a b...

Sorry I have just got up after laughing my ass off :lol: :lol: :lol: It just shows how the tinterweb can mis represent and give the wrong impression. ROAS I can can see why you came to that conclusion but you are so far off the mark its laughable :lol: :lol: . I am a 40 yr old RAF aircraft tech who...

wouldn't a stronger spring cause it to over tension the chain though, i'd have thought the spring was made to allow the correct pressure on it. When I say stronger I mean one that wont break, or rust sorry Tray wasn't picking holes just asking a question no need for apoligies mate I no you were onl...

btw, not trying to give the guy a hard time, well its just that it dont add up what he says, hell I'd have given a CAD drawing of a cct if he had of come out and asked

alec wrote:wouldn't a stronger spring cause it to over tension the chain though, i'd have thought the spring was made to allow the correct pressure on it.

When I say stronger I mean one that wont break, or rust

Just changed mine for the cbr 125 one :thumbup: 25 euro incl p&p from a breaker in Ireland on fea-bay, not sure what that is in striplion, sorry ment stirlling, btw way when r ye guys changing to euro, can travel most of europe without changing currency but our nearest country (and neighbour) s...

??? sorry Tony but you did say they used gear driven cams, to me that sounds like problem sorted, they decided that using existing tensioner was not he way forward and to be fair this was a good decision. Back to discussion, cct failure was caused by a weak spring, solution make it stronger,design c...

Oh btw I dont think Honda will re-design a replacement cct for older models, they might offer upgrades, if honda rely on college grad's to come up with a design I for one will be putting my bike in storage, a multi milion pound industry should be capable of employing a design engineer who has all th...

Just my 2 cents worth but anyway here goes, supplying manual ccts for close to a year now, all reported failures were spring related rite? tensioner design was never the issue, it works fine and you should not have to worry about adjustment if it is a trusted auto tensioner. the fault is in the mate...

Just changed mine for the cbr 125 one :thumbup: 25 euro incl p&p from a breaker in Ireland on fea-bay, not sure what that is in striplion, sorry ment stirlling, btw way when r ye guys changing to euro, can travel most of europe without changing currency but our nearest country (and neighbour) st...