Hawk 250 Overland Travel Bike? - Page 19

chinatoys · 10-12-2016, 08:29 PM

When I had my clutch apart I found that the spring washer under the primary drive nut was install backwards. The "out" side was facing in. If yours was the same way it may have had something to do with the nut backing out.

Wolftrax · 10-12-2016, 09:14 PM

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Originally Posted by chinatoys

When I had my clutch apart I found that the spring washer under the primary drive nut was install backwards. The "out" side was facing in. If yours was the same way it may have had something to do with the nut backing out.

What spring?

There wasn't much left of it? We'll never know!

chinatoys · 10-12-2016, 10:45 PM

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Originally Posted by Wolftrax

What spring?

There wasn't much left of it? We'll never know!

It's a thick cupped spring washer. I doubt it was chewed up completely. Maybe it was missing to start with.

It would look similar to this.

BlackBike · 10-13-2016, 12:40 AM

Wolftrax...So if your taking the 250 honda, how are you going to handle the "ditching" of the bike at journeys end? Still going with the original plan?

pete · 10-13-2016, 01:12 AM

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Originally Posted by BlackBike

Wolftrax...So if your taking the 250 honda, how are you going to handle the "ditching" of the bike at journeys end? Still going with the original plan?

Sounds like someones after a cheap Honda...

Wolftrax · 10-13-2016, 07:56 AM

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Originally Posted by BlackBike

Wolftrax...So if your taking the 250 honda, how are you going to handle the "ditching" of the bike at journeys end? Still going with the original plan?

Going to put it up for sale on HU.

Wolftrax · 10-13-2016, 07:58 AM

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Originally Posted by chinatoys

It's a thick cupped spring washer. I doubt it was chewed up completely. Maybe it was missing to start with.

It would look similar to this.

Didn't find it. I think we may have found the culprit.

Merlin · 10-13-2016, 10:21 AM

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Originally Posted by Wolftrax

Didn't find it. I think we may have found the culprit.

What did you find?

BlackBike · 10-13-2016, 11:48 AM

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Going to put it up for sale on HU.

HU ?

Don't know what this means

Fly back to states leaving bike in Argentina...that was the plan i thought. Now you have a potentially more valuable bike left there.

No, pete...wouldnt make much sense to be looking for a 250crf in a country 6000 miles from me.

Republic · 10-13-2016, 01:32 PM

I would guess HU is Horizons Unlimited. They have forums for people who want to buy the bike and continue the journey. Say someone wanting to ride from his destination back to the states.

Since the bike is registered in the US that makes it more valuable to someone wanting to come to the US due to no import mess.

BlackBike · 10-13-2016, 03:37 PM

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Originally Posted by Republic

I would guess HU is Horizons Unlimited. They have forums for people who want to buy the bike and continue the journey. Say someone wanting to ride from his destination back to the states.

Since the bike is registered in the US that makes it more valuable to someone wanting to come to the US due to no import mess.

Thanks Republic, I was stumped. Sounds plausable.

BlackBike · 11-24-2016, 12:32 PM

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Well I made it home swapped all of my kit onto the CRF250L and will depart at daybreak tomorrow. Won't pull the clutch cover off till I get home from SA. Anyhow I found a great pic of the nut that escaped. The nut sits inside the oil filter and hold the oil filter assembly as well as the the drive gear from the crankshaft. The oil filter housing was destroyed when it came off and the drive gear slid up the shaft and disengaged from the clutch gear. I removed all of the trashed oil filter assembly, flushed the case, and cross threaded the nut back on the stripped shaft. All this alongside Hwy 278 between Cullman and Double Springs Alabama. Bike ran great the entire 300 miles home. Probably shouldn't have run it that far with all the metal in the oil, but what the heck, I'm going to have to split the case to R/R the crank. Kudos to the CG engine for it's bear bone simplicity, ease of repair, and downright toughness for getting me home. I'm impressed and sorry I won't be taking her south. If I had a week or two to spare, I'd repair it and head south, no hesitation.

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Didn't find it. I think we may have found the culprit.

last words, wolf never passed thru my way as far as i know. wonder whats up?

Ariel Red Hunter · 11-24-2016, 02:42 PM

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Originally Posted by chinatoys

It's a thick cupped spring washer. I doubt it was chewed up completely. Maybe it was missing to start with.

It would look similar to this.

Where I come from, that's called a Bellevile Washer. It was most popularly used early in the 20th century on clutches that lock off as well as on, usually controlled by a hand lever. Farm tractors, road graders, bulldozers etc. The diaphram clutch pressure spring was a development of this.

Wolftrax · 11-25-2016, 03:44 PM

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last words, wolf never passed thru my way as far as i know. wonder whats up?

Currently in Loja Ecuador. Sorry I didn't make it to George West. Pretty much slabbed it through Texas. Beauty shot from South of Canar Ecuador.

culcune · 11-25-2016, 04:12 PM

Glad to read from you! I take it you will be riding back since the CRF is not a 'ride and dump' kind of bike...

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chinatoys Join Date: Sep 2016 Posts: 13	When I had my clutch apart I found that the spring washer under the primary drive nut was install backwards. The "out" side was facing in. If yours was the same way it may have had something to do with the nut backing out.
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Republic Join Date: Jul 2015 Posts: 118	I would guess HU is Horizons Unlimited. They have forums for people who want to buy the bike and continue the journey. Say someone wanting to ride from his destination back to the states. Since the bike is registered in the US that makes it more valuable to someone wanting to come to the US due to no import mess.
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