I have the alignment tool but should I also be lightly greasing the input shaft? What about the needle bearing on the gland nut? Locktite on the clutch plate bolts? For some reason I think unused copper grease the last time I did this...
No grease on the shaft , should be graphite , don’t lock tight the bolts , do grease or replace ( if necessary) and grease the new bearing
If your aligning tool has a bit of play, as they do, judging the clutch plate into the centre of that play makes it easier to refit the engine.
If you undid it in the process -- Do up the gland nut to full torque. Check you did it up. Check it again. Write a note to the effect you did it up. Then the flywheel wont fall off 30 miles later.. This trashes the crank and the flywheel too. A cup of coffee at the wrong time cost me a lot.
Funnily enough I have been wondering about this myself as I built the damn thing many many many years ago.
Did you mean grease the bolts? Also, when you say bearing do you mean in the gland nut or the release bearing?
^this. Just a smidge down the gland nut hole. If the clutch bolts are torqued up correctly, they won’t come off.
I have a simple rule to never put anything together without torquing it up, it's too easy to forget where you are when you half assemble something. I guess you also have a rule like that now.
Yes I have that rule now.. I was lucky that for £395 I got the crank and flywheel 8 dowelled and ran that engine a while longer, back on the road in a week. When I do the oil seal on my 18000 mile engine (slow drip now) I shall be extra careful...
