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I put the Star Racing billet ramp in just shy of 10k miles ago, and found this while doing some clutch work today. It's scored and worn which surprised me. Normal? I'm not as concerned about about the ramp as I am about the wear on the sprocket spoke which has about 52k on it. What would you do?
I'm at 57K and had my comp off this week - it's all stock. It had a little less wear than yours on the spoke. It's marked up but not as much material is ground away as yours.
I don't know what I'd do in your case, but at some point you know it's probably going to need a replacement...
I'm at 57K and had my comp off this week - it's all stock. It had a little less wear than yours on the spoke. It's marked up but not as much material is ground away as yours.
I don't know what I'd do in your case, but at some point you know it's probably going to need a replacement...
Thanks, and yep it'll need a new one at some point. I might wait on it......
What did that strange small gouged area in the ramp on the inner edge at 9:00 o'clock?
Are those deep gouges in the sprocket were your ramp is winding up to full lock or is that a oil groove made by the company?
The gouges in the ramp are machining marks that were there when the ramp was new. The sprocket gouges are wear, I just don't know if it's normal or not. There were there when I put the Star ramp in, but they got worse.
The gouges in the ramp are machining marks that were there when the ramp was new. The sprocket gouges are wear, I just don't know if it's normal or not. There were there when I put the Star ramp in, but they got worse.
So obviously to me, the compensator is running full locked up or you slam it pretty hard, pretty often.
I can make my slam to lock with a loud clack but it requires pretty much WOT and little clutching and just dumping it.
Jumped on my laptop to see that wear past the groove that I didn't see on my phone. I'm thinking I was wrong in my first visualization of how or what was cutting into it. That wear past the groove makes my conclusion wrong.
You sure that groove was not ground into there for oil to be. That's what the face grooves are for.
Except for them, the compensator looks good. Most of these units are only hard on the surface. Once it breaks thru, it's pretty soft. A small fine file will tell you if you're thru the case harding. It's probably only a 1/32 deep if that much. And that's a lot.
Take your file at 45 degree and hit a V down at the rib unworn and then across the top to compare hardness.
A good file will cut it but you can tell it's hard.
Last edited by Jackie Paper; Sep 1, 2022 at 09:02 PM.
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