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Fit honda Part it will last but costs
Fit cheep shit it will fail
YOU HAVE PROVED the second !! ____________________ Dave
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The small honda cush-drive is a bit of a design bodge, it 'isn't really a cush-drive, but four metastatic bushes in the hub, with, and this is the significant bits Pegs in them through the spocket... and NORMALLY once they are in.. they are an effoff pain in the proverbial to ever get out again....
This makes me wonder.... yes; the parts are probably not the 'best' quality.... b-u-t
You know as a young mechie under-grad I did a 3 month summer placement in a factory that made metalastic bushes..... I worked in the tool room... I designed and made an ape-proof, or at least ape-tolerant release fork for them.... complete asside, but basically the mold is two thick iron plates with holes in it; some-one puts the inner and outer metal sleeves into the mold, then the mold gets put in the injection molding machine that squirts liquid rubber between them... the mold is then heated to vulcanize the rubber... and the machine operators can stand there body-building for an hour or so doing their curls and wot-not with the next set of molds to swap in, when the first has set... well, the apes on night-shift did! But, then they get the set mold out, and they have to lift off the lid, prod the bushes with a fork that fits down the inner sleeves, give them a waggle... I said waggle... NOT try bending the whole damn mold! Yeah... BIT heavy handed them night-shift apes! And waggling the forks to release the bushes they tended to break the tines off them... and they would leave the broken stubs on my work-bench for me to find in the morning! And spend all day trying to drill out the sheared fork tines, turn down new ones in the lath and repair the fork so that they could break it on the next shift!
Ha! Brains over Brawn! I made up two-part prongs! I turned down some stainless to make the prongs, bored a 6.3mm hole down the middle then cut it to the length of a prong. Then I got a box of Mild steel M6 cap-heads, that have a rolled rather than cut thread.... and cut a 'snap-groove' in them about 1/2 mm deep just beneath the head, so that when they broker, there was 1/2inch of bolt shank left poking out the handle I would get a pair of mole-grips on, rather than have a flush stud to try and line up and drill out on the pillar drill, and then ease out with an EZ-Shear stud extractor.... and used them to screw the prongs onto the fork-handle... Absolutely astounding... the 'bending' of the prong put the stress on the sleeve, which in tern 'pulled' on the M6 screw, rather than tried to 'shear' across the thread cut on the lathe-made prong.... took the buggers a fortnight to NOT break one.... so they took it as a challenge... A-N-D one hung around at the end of shift so they could present me with the broken tool, personally, in victory.... But I detract....
The rubber would have to be REALLY crap to break down, particularly fast... it's black BTW because its loaded with 'soot' or as its called in the trade 'Tread-Stop' or 'filler powder' to bulk up the volume... and if they used an AWFUL lot of tread stop in the mix, cos its cheaper then rubber, yes, it could break down under load more easily.... BUT.... if it was that crumbly from the off, the stuff would be crumbling as you tried to fit the things, to all practical.... NOT beyond credence, B-U-T takes me back to my main suspects, which that your problem ISN'T poor parts.... per-se.
Back to that honda low-rent cush-drive design.... it's a very good bit of product design BTW, having the functionality of a more conventional paddle cush, but without the number of parts to make or assemble..... it's just NOT all that 'serviceable'.
If you look at the schematics; first off the sprocket doesn't bolt to the hub, it has four 'pegs' bolted to the sprocket, that then engage on the metastatic in the hub. Here lies the first potential problem.
The pegs have an M6 nut holding them on the sprocket at the front. On the back... there's just a couple of flats on the peg to stop them turning in the spocket when you bolt them on.... OTMH I think that itrs 8mm accross the flats, and you CAN get a spenner on the back to hold them whilst you tighten the nut on t'other end.... just not with the sprocket on the hub....
This means, that most sprocket pegs never get properly tightened, and 'wobble' on the sprocket and in the bush... which sees the bushed wobbled and ultimately chewed up in quick-time.
Aided-and-abetted, by the fact that many after-market sprockets, made down to lowest cost, often dont have a properly made rebate for the peg flats, and the sprockets themselves can be of more questionable material quality.
But, numpty assembly; the pegs get put in the bushes, or left there held in by rust; the pegs either dont get tightened up, in which case they wobble, and nbuts likely to fall off, OR they do, and the peg rotates on the sprocket, the flat gouging a path out of the rebate that's supposed to hold it, and the flat riding up on the ridge of the rebate making peg go 'cock' to the hole....
The Trick... you put the pegs in the sprocket, first, off the bike, and tighten them up just a bit over 'fingy' tight, with the sprocket on the hub... THEN, you remove sprocket... gently.... put spanner on the flats on the back of the pegs, and a spanner... note spanner, NOT a socket, or heathen forbit a ruddy pair of mole grips! AND you tighten the pegs to the sprocket, nice and carefully, and nice and tightly, WITHOUT letting the peg twist in the rebate at the back.
Now, with the pegs aligned by first fit, the sprocket should drop onto the hub nice and easy.. and the pegs shouldn't rock or wobble in the sprocket to make the bushes break down double-time.
NOW.... before you do that.... clean the effin hub... and do it again, properly.....
There's a groove around the flange the sprocket slots over, and there's supposed to be a bloomin great circlip in there to hold teh sprocket on.....
Usually covered in years of old chain oil turned to cack... this is oft missed by numpty when dissembling, and trying to pry the sprocket off the hub with assortment of long pokie things... that results in the circlip being mangled..... which is not a lot of good, if it survives suffiently for numpty to try re-fit mangled circlip... if so they often drop off or thier own accord, if numpty didn't just shrug, and decide it wasn't really needed anyway....
Pay heed, and pay careful attension around that flange. Again, low grade sprockets aren't necessarily so accurately made, AND that honda cost-cut design, the sprocket is supposed to be able to rotate 'a little' on that flange on the hub.. its that small rotary movement that gives the complience to make it a cush-drive, BUT where a more conventional paddle cush, usually has a small hole for the cush-paddle bearing on the axle and often with an actual bearing or at least phospher bush to let it rotate a bit.... the cost cut Honda design, JUST lets the (notionally!) steel sprocket rotate around that 3" boss on the (notionally!) aluminium hub... It IS NOT a particularly precision bearing, and it gets no other lube but that wot drips off the chain... in time, and no CG is a spring chicken by now.... that boss onm the hub the sprocket fits over WILL wear... A-N-D, if the circlip has been left out, A-N-D the sprocket pegs are a bit wobbly.... that speocket can chew the heck out of the boss....
SO! carefully inspect the boss for damage, and if needs 'dress' the thing with a flat file or emery paper so that the sprocket goes over it nice and neatly and smoothly, and can turn...
THEN big-spenda... splash out on a brand new sprocket circlip to hold it on the boss... whilst you are at it... get a new set of sprockets, devent ones, not cheapo monkey-metal variety, and more, sprocket pegs, and as you are splashing the cash... might as well get nice new nuts with them....
NOW. new bushes.... aught not be hammered to heck, and the inner sleeves should be a good fit on the new pegs.... new pegs should be good fit in the sprocket... and careful attention to double assembly, they should line up well, and verticle. THEN sprocket goes over the nice clean hub-boss... MIGHT if badly chewed with time, be a little loose... but a feck site better than it was... THEN a bit of grease so that sprocket can rotate that nth, and a nice new circlip to hold it all in place.... any 'wobble' in the sprocket and or the pegs into the chush drive AUGHT to be minimised.... A-N-D a well assembled Honda metalkastic hub, SHOULD be pretty much fit and forget, the cush drive rubbers usually lasting as long as the bike, the pegs if properly fitted as long as the bushes, the chain and spockets? Well pays your money, takes your chances, and pay attension to good chain-tension and lube discipline.
It should NOT be knocking out cush-drive metalastics, at THIS rate of knots... as said, they normally last 50oooo miles and twenty years or more, usually as long as the bike, they are NOT like on other bikes with a paddle cush a 'service replaceable part' they are 'if required' at over-haul only....
But, does beg suggestion, for them to be as bad as suggested... when you go to overhaul, pay VERY close attension to the hub, and the wheel bearings, and everything else.... these bushes really ARE the last thing that should 'go' bot the first,. ane certainly not with any kind of regularity.... and while shoddy low quality parts may be suspect, they are not the chief suspect here; and its likely that the breaking bushes are a sympton NOT a cause... so go find the cause... as said, most likely the diligence in fitting the sprocket pegs, and sprocket, and then the state of degradation of them bits in and around.
Best of luck..... Personally? I would be hunting out a decent second hand Chinky-CG-Copy wheel... them bushes do NOT usually like coming out the wheel, and you are as like to do more damage to the hub in the trying, than you fix in the job.. and if they DO come out easy... then odds is that the hubs already been damaged beyond, and new metalastics in shot-holes is not fixing the problem you got really... but your call. ____________________ My Webby'Tef's-tQ, loads of stuff about my bikes, my Land-Rovers, and the stuff I do with them!
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Hi,
I changed mine three times, twice with aftermarket from Wemoto, the fist fell apart in less than a thousand miles I think, the replacements from them were more expensive and they broke apart, finally popped for Honda, they were still in when I sold it after passing test.
Yes they were a bastard to remove, had to chisel them out ( remove the centre then use a sharp chisel down the outer bush then push edges round and they will work loose), much preferred the way the modern ones are installed. ____________________ 07 Yamaha YBR125, 07 Honda CG125 , 15 CBR300R (Chocolate Crank, Deaded), 16 CB500FA, 19 Honda Forza 300, 70 Suzuki SV650 |
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chris-red Have you considered a TDM?
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You are not alone, I fitted Washi rubbers (from Wemoto) to the rear wheel of my CB250 and they quickly looked like this:
https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-cIq-o7_-pBs/WpvX6W7rNfI/AAAAAAAABSM/8kw934TJv-IXASdMTsw4Ly5OtknW27-TgCLcBGAs/s1600/2017-10-08-1012.jpg
The wheel is scrap now, there's nothing left of the lip on the hub that would hold the circlip in place. I would've caught it sooner but I was on a Euro tour at the time, on my way down through France I had to take an angle grinder to the sprocket bolts/pins to stop them catching on the inside of the swingarm!
I emailed Wemoto about it, they said they'd never heard a bad word about them - maybe it'd be nice if other people tell them about their own experiences. ____________________ 1994 CB250, 1984 CBX250RS-E, 1989 K100RS, 1995 TRX850, 2016 Z250SL |
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I found the Cheng Shin (actually not even called a Maxxis!) to be perfectly adequate for anything I could throw at it, but then on the whole I have mostly used it in bone dry, baking hot Spain and France..
The wheel is scrap, there are plenty about so I'll just get another. I did replace the cush rubbers and chain/sprockets before I left, that's why I know they were Washi items from Wemoto.. Anyway, the original cush rubbers lasted until I changed at 87.2K, at 89.2K I had the 'Shin fitted and while the wheel was out I noticed the rubbers looked worse for wear. Unfortunately I was setting off to catch the ferry that night and no other bikes were ready so I set off anyway.. After another 4K the rubbers look like you see above - utter crap. The hub was so close to breaking that I think it had maybe 20 miles left in it, it scared me more than finding out the frame had cracked in the middle!
Good trip, that ____________________ 1994 CB250, 1984 CBX250RS-E, 1989 K100RS, 1995 TRX850, 2016 Z250SL |
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