Hey Mouse,
Glad to see you're up and running again. I am curious as to whether or not you ascertained the need for all new parts from your "mechanic" or upon your final inspection persuade you? I can't imagine such a new bike as yours needing a new face plate unless it really got damaged or gouged badly. All I did with mine was to clean it out good with solvent and buff the roller valleys and it was good as new.
The reason I inquire is that I had 2 rollers go to Crap City on me once and all I did was replace all the rollers, and being that they had over 50000 miles on them I should have done that replacement miles earlier but failed to use proper judgement. Not ever having owned or had problems with rollers it was a learning experience.
Just out of curiosity how were able to squeeze the belt back onto the clutch assy before looping over variator plate? I usually have to beat it into the clutch plates using deadblow and a cut down to size 2x4.
Again kudos on the finished job!
The mechanic wanted to replace nearly all the parts in the CVT - I said no and took the bike back.
The only parts that were replaced were the ramp plate, sliders and rollers. The ramp plate was gouged by the flat spot on the roller.
Funnily enough my previous Kymco had 80,000km and the pulleys, ramp plate and clutch were never replaced. They were fine.
For the clutch, you have to squeeze the pulley very hard with two hands. It can be done.
