Circlips on gear box shafts. How?
Posted: Fri Sep 29, 2017 4:03 pm
Hi,
I'm doing up a little Z400J as my first project, and today I was rebuilding the input shaft of the gearbox.
I'd taken the gears etc off months ago, the manual says it's best to replace the circlips if removed, and mine were.
The parts book calls these Snap rings, they are 24mm.
These are the clips that go in 3 different slots on the shaft to keep the gears in their own spaces.
Marked 92033A in the (hopefully) attached image.
The manual just says to avoid damaging the circlips open them just enough to slide over the shaft- yeah, right!
I've just done the input shaft and got the 3 buggers on, but there must be an easier way than what I'm doing.
It drew blood and I whacked the same finger three times- there aren't enough swear words...
I used circlip pliers, but the clip tended to twist as it was opened wide. There are no holes at the end like other circlips, but a VEE in the end on the edges to put the pliers in.
In the end I had to use them with small flat blade screwdrivers to get the clip to start on the shaft.
Messy, painful and it can't be good for the clip.
Has anyone an easier system, I'm no mechanical genius so maybe I'm missing something obvious.
I've the output shaft to do next, and it has 3 to install too......
I'm doing up a little Z400J as my first project, and today I was rebuilding the input shaft of the gearbox.
I'd taken the gears etc off months ago, the manual says it's best to replace the circlips if removed, and mine were.
The parts book calls these Snap rings, they are 24mm.
These are the clips that go in 3 different slots on the shaft to keep the gears in their own spaces.
Marked 92033A in the (hopefully) attached image.
The manual just says to avoid damaging the circlips open them just enough to slide over the shaft- yeah, right!
I've just done the input shaft and got the 3 buggers on, but there must be an easier way than what I'm doing.
It drew blood and I whacked the same finger three times- there aren't enough swear words...
I used circlip pliers, but the clip tended to twist as it was opened wide. There are no holes at the end like other circlips, but a VEE in the end on the edges to put the pliers in.
In the end I had to use them with small flat blade screwdrivers to get the clip to start on the shaft.
Messy, painful and it can't be good for the clip.
Has anyone an easier system, I'm no mechanical genius so maybe I'm missing something obvious.
I've the output shaft to do next, and it has 3 to install too......
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