Re: 1953
Hi gprocks<br />It has been a couple of years since I last worked on one of these. To the best of my memmory and from what I see in your picture, all looks well. This clutch works like chineese hand cuffs. If your spring was broken I would think the shafts would separate quite easily.There sould be no reason to drive the pin out of the lower shaft, this has no bering on the spring. That pin just holds the drum to the shaft. If you wish to remove the spring all you need to do is apply torque to the shafts in the oppisite direction of the coils in the spring. Turn the shafts one way, the spring gets tighter. Turn the other way, the spring will loosen. The spring is held in place by tension. Now,That I have said how good every thing looks in your picture. There is anothe spring in the top shaft drum. This is a shock absorber type deal. From your description about having to push together on the shafts to get drive, I think you may want to investigate this a little. It sounds like there my be a spacer missing (washer, etc) I am not sure. If you will post your email address I will try and shoot you some scans of an OEM parts manual. These drawings aren't the greatest. But at least you will be able to tell if you have all the parts and for the most part, see how they go. Hang in there, we will get to the bottom of this.
