As so many people before me I am also on a quest for a working starter on my 2002 650, have bought the R6 starter and the super battery from 'ol cranky' and am now playing around with the torque converter and the sprague.
Torque converter is working properly tested it with a torque wrench and it clicks at 11nm so should be good.
The sprague is another story:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHcTH5sRK6Y
I then dissasembled the sprague and tried to unwind the spring:
Offcourse, my sausage shaped fingers combined with a tiny spring is a recipe for disaster, this is the result:
Don't think it's ahuge problem, still fits in the groove of the sprague, so wen't ahead anyway.
the spring originally is around 15cm, I took of 5mm at a time and tested everytime. Ended up with 12cm (these measurements are not correct since the spring I measured is the messed up stretched one, so just go 5mm at a time)
And this is the result:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WA3PVpWaQQM
So the trick actually works, but when I put the sidecover back on and the plug in (filmed test was without plug so no compression), it started for about 5sec and then slipped again, so I guess my sprague is so worn out that even this trick isn't enough to save it.
Anyway worht a try if you have more recent 650 with a slipping sprague.
Torque converter is working properly tested it with a torque wrench and it clicks at 11nm so should be good.
The sprague is another story:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHcTH5sRK6Y
I then dissasembled the sprague and tried to unwind the spring:
Offcourse, my sausage shaped fingers combined with a tiny spring is a recipe for disaster, this is the result:
Don't think it's ahuge problem, still fits in the groove of the sprague, so wen't ahead anyway.
the spring originally is around 15cm, I took of 5mm at a time and tested everytime. Ended up with 12cm (these measurements are not correct since the spring I measured is the messed up stretched one, so just go 5mm at a time)
And this is the result:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WA3PVpWaQQM
So the trick actually works, but when I put the sidecover back on and the plug in (filmed test was without plug so no compression), it started for about 5sec and then slipped again, so I guess my sprague is so worn out that even this trick isn't enough to save it.
Anyway worht a try if you have more recent 650 with a slipping sprague.
