My mechanic told me I need a new idler gear, as mine is all completely disintegrated. Does anybody know about this part?
He explained to me that it keeps the chain/sprocket tensioned correctly up front. I have no idea about this part, so I don't want to get "taken for a ride."
Any advice would be appreciated. Thanks.
Barrett
option 1) - BS. The CB-1 has no camchain, and there is no idler gear on the drive chain.
option 2) - one of you said/heard the wrong word, and he means the rubber on the front of the swingarm. That's the only part I can think of which might help to correctly tension the chain, and might "disintegrate", as it is made of rubber. It's part 10, and apparently now discontinued so unavailable from Honda. Thing is, it is really very rare for these to wear out, your bike would have to have much more than 50k miles on it.
Here is a picture of the front sprocket area on a buell.
Apparently Buell thought it would be funny to fit a plastic sprocket here - surprise surprise, these tend to break. "Disintegrate", if you will. Perhaps he's feeding you BS and hoping you think your bike has one of those as standard fit? To be honest, I would go there with a (big) mate who knows something about mechanics, and call him on it, I suspect you're being played.
