Grease Cover on 54 B Needed with sliders? Solved By speedracer (Read 477 times)

[speedracer]

Besides all the other crap with this scooter it seems that the variator is starting to clank. I already because of mistakes replaced two sets of Dr Pulley sliders. When putting the variator on with the grease cover it makes it impossible to hold the sliders in place while putting on the variator.

Is it necessary or can I take it off and install the sliders like one would do with a GY 6 variator?

[Alleyoop]

Speedracer,
Doesn't the grease cover go on with 3 screws? The Varriator Plate should hold the Weights in place but as you put it on you have to hold the hold unit as one and slip it onto the shaft with boss and all and push it all the way back.

Can you put a picture of the unit. I know some have a FULL cover with three screws and I have seen just a cover around the outside of the Variator a well, but all the covers I have seen were held on with screws.
Alleyoop

[speedracer]

Alley, Yes there are 4 screws which hold on that cover. After taking off the CVT cover once again, I see no reason not to keep using it.

The problem is the cheap Dr Pulley U slides they are selling now. When I purchased my first set of sliders for the 54B they came with 4 thick U slides. I must have caused one of the sliders to move before installing and that caused all the U slides and sliders to self destruct.

Ordered new set of sliders and found out Dr Pulley now sells the U slides separately. So I purchased two sets of U slides just in case I needed them. That was a over a 1000 miles ago. This morning after removing the cover and variator, and dust cover I guess it's called I noticed that all 4 U slides were broken. For some reason there was no damage to the sliders except for a minor scratch on one of them. Maybe because I heard that clank noise and it was not picking up speed fast I knew there was something wrong in there.

Well it's back together again, but for how long I have no idea. These new U slides are thin and not the same as the ones they use to ship along with new sliders. The Dr Pulley sliders for the GY 6 are twice as thick as these. Below is a picture of one of the old U slides with 2 of the new ones stacked on top of each other.