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Canadian Daves JustKDX
Sprockets & chain again...
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[QUOTE="Jaybird, post: 820456, member: 22283"] People just love steel sprockets and o-ring chains. And who wouldn't love ZERO drive train maintenance? Problem is...there is no such animal as ZERO drive chain maintenance. Lots of riders are really proud of running race fuel, $185 graphics, $200 bars, umteen hundreds of dollars worth of questionable modifications, pristine filter care, fancy clutches, and on and on....yet they could care less about what puts it all to the wheel. If you really don't care about anything but riding...and will throw your bike in the barn muddy and wet, only to see it next time you ride..then keep neglegting your chain and sprockets. Proper bike care is NOT for you. But...if you do think that all aspects of maintenance is part of your regimine...then try to use the same care for your drive train as you would for your fancy graphics. The chain that is being described above is trash. It has kinks in it from contamination and water getting past the rings. This contamination has more than likely oxidized the inside friction areas of the chain pins and bushings. The chain is growing from wear with each revolution, and will not stop until it is either removed from the bike, or it has worn the sprockets to clean nubs, or breaks. Keep in mind that it only takes ONE link to be fouled/kinked up to screw up a whole drive system. The worn chain is what caused the wear on the sprocket. Nothing else. Don't worry about that sprocket wearing your chain out...the chain has taken care of wearing both itself and the sprockets out. Learing how to properly measure your chain is the first step in keeping this damage from happening. It's a wear issue...and just like your cylinder and piston, wear occurs with use. Checking compression for the motor is a guage of where your top-end is...the same as measuring links of your chain keeps you up on where your drive train stands. Manuals vary on recommendations of when to change your chain out, but rule of thumb is that when a chain approaches 2% of elongation from what it was at new, then it can and WILL start to wear your sprocket teeth...steel or not! On a ring chain...even if you measure properly and show that it is well within tolerance..the kinked up links that you find will wear out your sprockets as well. Steel rear sprockets only mask the problem, as they won't show the wear as fast as an aluminum will. They will fool you into thinking things are just fine...until the day your chain snaps because you don't measure it or lube/clean/adjust it properly. At that point you will be like thousands of others in saying: "My sprockets ROCK but my chains suck" Don't get me wrong, steel sprockets are fine to use...depending on your type of riding...but don't be fooled into thinking that an aluminum won't hold up. it WILL hold up just fine on ANY dirtbike, IF the chain is kept within specification and things are adjusted/cleaned/lubed properly. You'll get arguments all day long on this issue...and most of it will be argued on nothing more than anecdotal data (personal experiences). But always remember that some folks have phenominal luck with their drive. They always have good looking chains and sprockets and their stuff lasts and lasts... There has to be a reason for why some have crap luck and others have great luck... The reason is that there is NO LUCK. It all depends on how you choose to maintain your system. Depending on hard sprockets and zero maintenance chains does nothing but make a fool out of a rider. Like I said though....if you ride it hard and put it up wet...disreguard all the above.. proper maintenance is way too much for you to handle. [/QUOTE]
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