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Saturday, November 20, 2010

[DucatiST] Re: Cam belt alignment

 



--- In st2_owners@yahoogroups.com, Colin Forster <ecol@...> wrote:
> The threads on the adjuster bolt are clean and free..no
> crossthreading and both pulleys seat well when I tighten everything up
>
> Are there meant to be shims/spacers behind the idler pulleys or
> between the inner cover and the cylinder?
> Guess its possible that there may have been some that got lost some
> time ago in a previous servicing.No sign of such things in the parts
> diagram.
>
> Again, I appreciate all your thoughts.
>
> Colin.
>

Thinking about the belts on a couple of my sanding machines, it takes very little to skew the alignment and have the belt run off sideways. Maybe only a couple of degrees will do it. Have you tried rolling that pivot bolt over a dead-flat surface to check for straightness?

NickW

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