Well now I'm not too happy because I came to the conclusion that I was not going to be able to get that nut off to replace that spring. A lot of work done, all for nothing. So I dejectedly started putting things back together. I put the Stopper Comp assembly back on, put the shifting star back on and the shift cam plate and decided to work it a little bit to make sure it was right. It was about then that I discovered that the Stopper Comp arm was not going down in the shifting star valleys as it should. I started to loosen the Stopper Comp stud and I saw the arm fall in place. Along about here I made the statement we Southern'rs do when we discover something... 'well I'll be damned' (that means 'hey I found something) ...the Stopper Comp arm is binding up. If I loosened the stud it would work fine, if I tightened it it wouldn't. 
Refering back to a previous picture, the Stopper Comp arm
rides on a shoulder and has a spacer behind it (where the
chrome nuts are). This allows you to tighten the assembly but
still allows the Stopper Comp arm to float freely, or in this
case allows the spring to push the arm down into the valleys
of the shift star. I then took the entire assembly back apart, shift star, cam plate and Stopper Comp assembly. Once I had the Stopper Comp assembly out I unhooked the spring from the Stopper Comp arm and then bolted it back in place. Sure enough it would not float, I could move it but it was definetly not free floating. I took the entire assembly back apart and took the Stopper Comp arm over to my grinder and did a quick 1-2 second slap to the grinding wheel taking a small amount off the side of the Stopper Comp arm (decreasing the width of the arm). I would then put it back on the bike and check for free floating movement. It took a couple of shots but I got it ground enough to free float. I then used a polishing wheel to remove the grind marks and smooth it up on the side and re-assembled it with the spring still detached. It was definetly free floating now so I took the Stopper Comp assembly back off, put the spring back on the arm and put all the pieces back together. |