So, after building up the basket and plates it was time to throw it into the engine. now, when I took the basket off, I undid the big nut with an airgun. That was all fine and worked a treat, but now I had to torque it up. And of course I don’t have the proper Suzuki tool for holding the basket, so i had to botch one up double snappy.So, after last weeks upsetting result of thinking I didn’t have the right spring plate, I got stuck in with the clutch. Not really too much to say as it pretty simple. The only slight difficulty was finding a method of holding the basket from turning when doing up the bolts. In the end I used 2 bits of steel in between the fingers as shown, clamped in the vice.

 I was told that after torquing up the bolts, it was sensible to tack weld them so there was no way of them coming lose. Not to sure about this as it seems like a one hit wonder, but I suppose I can easily, he hopes, just grind the tack off if I ever need to…. (famous last words!)

So, after building up the basket and plates it was time to throw it into the engine. now, when I took the basket off, I undid the big nut with an airgun. That was all fine and worked a treat, but now I had to torque it up. And of course I don’t have the proper Suzuki tool for holding the basket, so I had to botch one up double snappy.

So some off cut angle and plate soon became the worlds most over engineered clutch basket holding tool! But hey, it shouldn’t brake!

 The engine is now mechanically all done apart from the covers, which I should be getting back on Tuesday/Wednesday depending on posting times.