New belt not sitting at top of clutch pulley By rosiemoto (Read 519 times)

[rosiemoto]

I just put a new belt in, and it does measure 20mm wide, yet some reason it's not sitting near the top of the rear pulley AT ALL once I get everything assembled and run the bike! It's like a full inch down in there. The belt sat right at the top when I had the clutch off the bike and laid the belt in it. Belt is chinese brand.

It's also pretty tight after I run it then stop...do they stretch a little and go to the top after some miles or something? Or is my contra spring not strong enough to push it all the way up maybe?? I have the stock variator in so this really surprised me.

Here's how it looks, couldn't get a picture because it was about to rain cats and dogs on me.

[cyborg]

Belt may be short,,,and/or contra spring may be loosing its strength

[cyborg]

Is the variator opening all the way?

[rosiemoto]

Hmm I would think so. I actually was wondering that myself. I do know the belt travels up and down the variator as I rev it without any issues that I can see. It sure is tight though, so maybe it is just too short. Seems to run fine enough..trying not to take it past 40 or any WOT-ing for the first 100 miles.

I'm hopefully going to get my original clutch in the bike tomorrow and try to rule out this contra spring... a few other issues have pointed to a possible bad contra spring already, so I'm really thinking this "new clutch" I got this year might have a worn out one. Just gotta get this WD-40 out of my original clutch...bad idea to shoot WD-40 onto the rusty clutch springs when you can't take the thing apart to clean the excess lol.