Subject: Re: Ambo gear shifter & rear shock spring help requested
Author: Bruce Giller
Date: Apr 16, 2002, 5:43 AM
Post ID: 1710071813
Lenny,
If you pull in the clutch, will the bike roll easily? This means that
the clutch is disengaging and working correctly. If not, then the
clutch plates are frozen to the flywheel and need to freed up. I'm not
sure just how to do this on a bike.
Maybe something broke in the tranny that has jammed the gears which is
the reason the PO put the bike in the barn since the 80's. If the
clutch does work, try shifting gears with the rear wheel moving, clutch
in, and the bike on the centerstand. The moving rear wheel will turn
tranny innards enough to maybe free up the gear selector.
As to the rear shock, they were never the best shocks, even new. I
replaced mine with a set of Progressive. But I did keep the old shocks
to hang on my garage wall ... along with the stock mufflers... as objets
d'art. Now to find some unoccupied wall space....
Bruce
'72 Eldo
Lenny Seidman wrote:
| I got my project 71 Ambo to Saturday morning, enough so I thought I could take it down my long driveway to see how it will ride. The previous owner had the bike in his barn since the 80's (hence the low 8100 miles) and said it always rode great so I was not anticipating any real mechanical problems except the usual with any thing that has sat for over 20 years. I pulled the clutch lever and went to put the bike into gear and the shift lever will not move up or down into any gear. I never even thought about trying the shifter until I got the bike to run! It feels and sounds like the clutch is working fine and that really shouldn't have anything to do about putting the bike into gear using the shift lever (pedal). I know on my Cal II you can move the lever through the gears just sitting still with the bike off. Any suggestions on what to look for and how to fix the shifting problem? Also, the bike is very original except that a lot of the chrome and metal items are rusty from sitting in the barn that really had deteriorated over the years. I have a set of stock set of rear shock springs to replace the rusty one on the bike. How do I get the old springs off the rear shocks and replace them with the better ones? |