Instruction manual
TO  REMOVE  FRONT  CHAINCASE  AND  CLUTCH  ASSEMBLY
To remove  outer  half of front  chaincase
Place tray  under chaincase to catch oil.
Remove exhaust pipe and silencer, as one unit.
Remove nut on  left end of footrest rod, push rod towards the  right hand side of machine
sufficiently to  allow footrest for left foot to be  disengaged.
Slide footrest  arm  to one side  or completely  take  away.
Remove screw  binding chaincase  metal  band at its  rear.
Remove metal band.
Remove rubber band.
Remove nut and washer,  in  centre of chaincase front.
Take  away outer half of chaincase.
To  remove front driving chain  and  clutch  assembly
Engage top gear, apply rear brake, and  unscrew engine sprocket  nut.
Unscrew the  nuts  retaining the clutch springs.
Take away the clutch spring pressure plate with the clutch springs and clutch spring cups,
and  flatten  the turned  up  part of the  lock washer that is  under the  large central  nut.
Remove front chain connecting  link and  take away chain.
Engage  top  gear,  apply  rear  brake,  and unscrew  nut  retaining  the  clutch  centre to  the
gear  box  mainshaft.
Remove the lock and  plain washers from gear box mainshaft.
Remove complete clutch assembly by pulling it away, as one unit from gear box mainshaft.
Take care  not to  lose any of the  twenty-four clutch  sprocket  bearing  rollers  which  may
be displaced when the clutch centre and sprocket assembly is withdrawn from the main-
shaft.  The clutch centre is a sliding fit on the  mainshaft and  an  extractor should  not be
required.
To  remove dynamo  chain  and  back  half of chaincase
Remove the spring  lock ring on  dynamo sprocket retaining  nut.
Take away  lock washer surrounding dynamo sprocket  nut.
Apply spanner (017254,  included  in tool  kit) to the two flats on  the  back of the dynamo
sprocket  and,  holding  same, unscrew  the nut  retaining  the  dynamo  sprocket.
Release dynamo sprocket with  suitable  extractor.
Take  away,  as one assembly, the dynamo sprocket,  dynamo chain  and  engine  shock
absorber assembly.  (The dynamo chain  is  " endless.")
Straighten tabs on lock washers under the three bolts retaining the back half of chaincase
to the  boss on  the  crankcase  and  remove  the  three bolts.
Remove  the  long headed  bolt (under battery  carrier)  fixing rear  chain  guard  to  front
chaincase.
Remove nut on centre fixing bolt, and spacer behind it, and back half of chaincase can  be
taken away.
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