Hey everyone over at 7602 Racing. When I was working down at GP Motorcycles, I always had questions reguarding aftermarket slave cylinders for the huskys. I am not aware that any exist, and as you guys probably know, the stock ones are garbage and wear down easily. I believe if you guys started to make these, people would line up out the door for them!
joedirtbike418, If you are looking for an aftermarket slave cylinder, zip ty racing makes one. Yes the stocker can wear down after a while. We are working on something that will stop the slave cylinder from wearing down, but it isn't the cylinder housing. Will shop pics when I can, lots of summer projects in the works right now.
Sweet! Yea the housing itself isin't so much the problem as is the soft material that wears out on the piston wall. I recently set up a dealer account with you guys for GP about 2 months ago so anything like that I'm sure Paul (the owner) will want to stock. Keep up the good work.
Cool, cool. I actually need to order a couple things from you guys soon, so I'll be giving you a call sometime.
Here is a pic of what we have been working on for the clutch problem. The stock piston has very thin walls that allow it to kick sideways as it is traveling back and forth in the slave cylinder. After a while it makes little notches in the cylinder wall and the o ring can't seal against these notches. We built a new piston that has a thicker piston skirt. We also switched from an o ring to a quad ring. The quad ring is moved towards the back side of the piston so that it doesn't have to travel over the notches worn by the old piston. From what testing I have been able to do so far, it is working awesome. No leaks yet, and all seams to be working well. [/IMG]
Nice work Clay. Hard ano might help as well. I have had better luck with round O-rings for longevity but that is primarily with rotating shafts.
