I would like to roughly explain to an experienced mechanic who has never worked on a threewheeler how to replace the rollers / inlets in a compensator that has been rebuilt by Bleazy.
What are the basic steps involved, is there perhaps a description or a video?
Additional question: does it make sense to lubricate the new inlets with silicone or another material? If so, what do you recommend?
Many thanks and best wishes from Waldemar aka Michelwald from Cologne, where the tricycle season is about to begin
4 aircooled cylinders, 7 tires, not waterproof: my m3w Bluebelle (2013) and my 2CV Gundel (1990)
Refer them to Phil Bleazeys website, or request from Phil directions, which I believe ships with his conversion. Always best to go to the original source, if available.
That video is spot on. Once I did the Bleazey Conversion it made me wonder why MMC did it the way they did, unless they are selling shop time as part of the MMC experience.
2019 M3W Sold and is now in Las Vegas enjoying the showgirls :-)
Has Phil figured out his crank shaft issue yet? I see he is still not selling, just installing. Although I presume he is still trusting in Craig over at M3WServices since Craig is also installing.
Has Phil figured out his crank shaft issue yet? I see he is still not selling, just installing. Although I presume he is still trusting in Craig over at M3WServices since Craig is also installing.
M3WServices in the EU are no longer installing the PB Centa, they are installing a modified inner rotor as this does not need the outer rotor to be separated from the crankshaft which is where the issue with the PB upgrade occurs.
PB to my knowledge is only installing at his workshop in Lancaster and is no longer selling kits to 3rd parties for installation.
It has been known in exceptional cases for the securing nut to come loose due to the poor machining of the crank shaft splines. Phil has the rotor splines machined undersize and then finishes them off by hand to exactly match the crank it is being fitted to, so they become a matched pair.
If the cranks were machined to any decent tolerance this would probably not need to be done.
