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so riding down 190 the other night and I felt a small piece of metal hit my left leg.
thought it was some odd debris I ran over , but it was probably the masterlink clip
cause about ten seconds after that the chain spit out , made a sound down by the tranny that wasn't really loud, but otherwise not nearly as nasty as I thought a chain coming loose would be.
I just clutched it and pulled over on the left thinking it was my tranny or something shit on me internal.
sprocket teeth seem all good. It broke the front plastic sprocket cover in pieces and part of the case / transmission cast aluminum that mounts that cover.
It's not leaking though or anything , so I guess a new chain will fix it up. There just wouldn't be a cover then.
I have no chain guard so I'm just glad my leg wasn't fucked up since I was just wearing shorts.
I was talking to my friend about the mechanical circumstances on how this could happen :
chain is pretty new - maybe ten hours max on it
it was definitely set on chain slack correctly cause I just put back on my 14 tooth front sprocket on and adjusted it perfectly accurate. Checked it a couple times , sitting on it and not - about 1" exactly (done this a million times though seriously).
waxed it, etc.
so he was saying that you can get the masterlink installed BACKWARDS.
I'm fairly sure the side plate was pressed on well , and the clip on - i work on a lot of shit, so I don't make obvious mistakes.
However he said you can get it backwards and pointed to his on a dirt bike, pointing out that the clip faces (if masterlink on top side of chain) so that the open end of the clip is towards rear sprocket , closed end front.
Is this the right way?
does anyone think that is the most likely thing that happened?
after all I felt the damn clip hit my leg!
he made it sound like you can install them backwards and not know for awhile, then 'EVENTUALLY' it will spit it out....
thought it was some odd debris I ran over , but it was probably the masterlink clip
cause about ten seconds after that the chain spit out , made a sound down by the tranny that wasn't really loud, but otherwise not nearly as nasty as I thought a chain coming loose would be.
I just clutched it and pulled over on the left thinking it was my tranny or something shit on me internal.
sprocket teeth seem all good. It broke the front plastic sprocket cover in pieces and part of the case / transmission cast aluminum that mounts that cover.
It's not leaking though or anything , so I guess a new chain will fix it up. There just wouldn't be a cover then.
I have no chain guard so I'm just glad my leg wasn't fucked up since I was just wearing shorts.
I was talking to my friend about the mechanical circumstances on how this could happen :
chain is pretty new - maybe ten hours max on it
it was definitely set on chain slack correctly cause I just put back on my 14 tooth front sprocket on and adjusted it perfectly accurate. Checked it a couple times , sitting on it and not - about 1" exactly (done this a million times though seriously).
waxed it, etc.
so he was saying that you can get the masterlink installed BACKWARDS.
I'm fairly sure the side plate was pressed on well , and the clip on - i work on a lot of shit, so I don't make obvious mistakes.
However he said you can get it backwards and pointed to his on a dirt bike, pointing out that the clip faces (if masterlink on top side of chain) so that the open end of the clip is towards rear sprocket , closed end front.
Is this the right way?
does anyone think that is the most likely thing that happened?
after all I felt the damn clip hit my leg!
he made it sound like you can install them backwards and not know for awhile, then 'EVENTUALLY' it will spit it out....
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