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Well, after a rather depressing morning thinking about this pile of nuts, bolts and wiring in my garage I'm happy to report some success. The Pic is of "1 am GY6 Hell"

Getting myself home-schooled in GY6.

Took apart the variator. When the PO last worked on it, the rollers apparently fell out of position and were left that way when assembled, which forced the spacer tube outwards and prevented everything from being bolted up tight. At first I thought there was an extra roller, turns out one of the roller pockets was completely full of old cobwebs and so crusty it looked like dirty metal--I couldn't tell there was a pocket there until i poked it. before, the inner half of the pulley sat about 1/4-in. outside of the case, now it's inside the case and there's no grinding on the cover.

Took the clutch apart --wheee that's a fun spring!-- clutch pads and outer bell surface look ok. Both the driver and driven had a buildup of rust where the belt was sitting, cleaned those up.

Question ---how tight should the belt be? it's a 743, I had to put it on the clutch, then roll it onto the spacer followed by installing the vaned outer plate. I had to work it on the spacer, that's how tight it was. I take it there is no belt adjustment on these???


Drained the old oil, which while not milky, seems to have water in it. Oil plug threads are pretty shot.

I put it in the bare chassis, wired it up, rigged my tec fuel tank to it and jumped the solenoid ...it runs! 1 down, 1 to go.

It still needs a solenoid (seller should be sending me the one he had on order) oil plug, variator fan plate, mounting bushings and more TLC. Carter is a dirty boy!