06-29-2024, 01:42 AM
@Gone and ferret: see - not living up to my promise - here is what bothers me after all.
If there was a little difference of say under 1/2" between measurements, whatever, I'd just leave it alone. But when I adjust the chain to about 35mm slack as by the book, and go back on the side stand I find the same 35mm. Then I role her forward to the tricky spot and I measure ~5mm. It feels super tight. And that means the gear box / forward sprocket will sense the same.
If I ruin the chain, to hell, I replace it. But if the tight chain - which I cannot loosen any further" - pulls hard on the gear drive for every revolution of the chain, that can't be good.
And I still don't know how come.
If there was a little difference of say under 1/2" between measurements, whatever, I'd just leave it alone. But when I adjust the chain to about 35mm slack as by the book, and go back on the side stand I find the same 35mm. Then I role her forward to the tricky spot and I measure ~5mm. It feels super tight. And that means the gear box / forward sprocket will sense the same.
If I ruin the chain, to hell, I replace it. But if the tight chain - which I cannot loosen any further" - pulls hard on the gear drive for every revolution of the chain, that can't be good.
And I still don't know how come.