Not mine! I helped Jaymo put his on the other day and we took an easy 2 hour job and made it into a hot sweaty swearing cursing back and forth to the parts stores three times 5 hours job.
In his desire to get the drive installed before he left for Laconia, Jaymo had Ozzie make it up and overnight it to him on Saturday. Well, Ozzie called him back later, said it was on the way, but....(here's where it all began) he "thinks" he put the two outer plates on in reverse (of course he did), so if it rubs (duh, of course it did!) to remove the two plates and reverse them so that the thinner plate was on the inside and it stopped rubbing. He even thought ahead enough to send 4 new screws for the plates. Anyway, stripped screws (countersunk very special sizes naturally) and broken EZ-outs were the name of the game by then. So we finally ended up with some nice screw extractors (I will NEVER EVER use the friggin EZ-outs again! They have broken off the last three times I have used them making the job vastly more difficult. Ever try to drill an EZ-out? They're pretty tough buggars) and ended up mangling the stripped screws out. Good thing we had the spares eeh? Hmm, sent spares but couldn't take 15 minutes to be sure the parts were assembled right in the first place?
We then had to straighten, grind, file and align the plates on the front sprocket to get it flush and at least fit like it should. Pretty rough edges on everything too. Just as we finished the sky exploded and Mike never got a chance to try it Saturday. I figure he got it going okay as he hasn't called in a panic yet.
Lesson learned: DO NOT RUSH the manufacturers! Mine was perfect, at least I think it was, but the rush job caused us a ton of headache and a lot more swearing and beer than it should have.
Disengage ramble mode now.
