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How free moving should this assembly be moving when the spring and clutch are removed? Mine is moving fine just feels feels old grease tight. I'm wondering if I should pull it apart and service it and repack with fresh grease. I feel it will work better if I do that. 29 year old crusty grease can't be as good as nice clean parts with fresh grease. Opinions?

Yes, use amsoil racing lube. I forget what its called at the moment but its thick and tacky. That old grease is probably clumped up and doing nothing.

Make a write up on how to do it if you do so other people can see its not a terror.

LoveMyHonda wrote:Make a write up on how to do it if you do so other people can see its not a terror.

I totally will do that. On further inspection I ccould see in the back. Of one of the bearings the grease wasn't doing much. I'll figure out how it comes apart tomorrow with the manual in hand.

the spacer that the spring sits on just slides off with a little help from a screw driver then remove the pins and slide off the drive face clean and reassemble .you could smooth out the sharp angle in the grooves making movement a tad easyer.

Wow thanks for the tip Pauly I have the manual open and I totally see what you mean. I'll pull that apart tomorrow likley I have a feeling we all service the variator and forget about the driven pulley because it is such a closed assembly. And with out a 39mm socket it's a total pain to disassemble. The $15 for the 39mm socket was well worth the money.

Got that pulley all serviced today and took pics along the way. Its a breeze to do and is worth the time. That thing works sooooo much better. I'll put together the pics and write up the walkthrough when I have the time over the next few days.

working on the tutorial as we speak. I did realize that I need to go back in and take a couple more pics to round it out. which i will be able to do once my new aero80 belt arrives.

Any chance you made a tutorial yet?