Pulled my gearbox and removed a side cover. Found the input shaft circlip dislodged. Any ideas on what caused this? Is there room to easily put a new clip in there or does that require some additional disassembly?
Hewland Circlip
Pulled my gearbox and removed a side cover. Found the input shaft circlip dislodged. Any ideas on what caused this? Is there room to easily put a new clip in there or does that require some additional disassembly?
I.D have to say it was never in in the first placeOriginally Posted by Terrenzio
Pulled my gearbox and removed a side cover. Found the input shaft circlip dislodged. Any ideas on what caused this? Is there room to easily put a new clip in there or does that require some additional disassembly?
Mine's the same way. I haven't had the whole gearbox out, but, if the snap ring's still in the gearbox, it doesn't retain the input shaft coupling sleeve. (went through last year without knowing)
I'd love to know the cause if it's "normally" caused by....?
Never seen this, but I have a guess since nobody else replied...
Perhaps the clip was stretched a little too far on install and then the install of the cluster pushes the shaft against the clip and out of the slot?
I'd concur. Someone over stretched it a bit upon disassembly (to remove input shaft and maybe replace front seal??). They can be "over opened" rather easily and wont' fit well in their grove. Kinda' like old people. Don't ask me how I know. But a good hardware store can sell you a fresh 5/8" external circllip. While you're in there, simply get the old one out of there and replace it with a fresh one in the grove.
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