ionbeam
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Good stuff from a bad situation. Jacques told me that there was on oil passage that assisted tensioning the slipper. I haven't found evidence that his statement is valid....Also, there is also NO effect by oil pressure on the mechanism. It's spring tension only to extend the plunger.
...contrary to what Ionbeam wrote in his disaster thread, the tabs that locate the plunger body in the CCT housing, noted here with arrows: (you can't see one of the tabs on the plunger body from the picture angle)...CAN be rotated 180 degrees, rather than only 360 degrees that Ionbeam had noted in his thread, so should one have a CCT with weak return tension, the circlip can be easily removed, the plunger "cap" with the tabs rotated 180 degrees to add tension, then the circlip replaced.
Now is this something one SHOULD do? I'll leave that for gods and demons to debate. ...you CAN adjust spring tension by rotating the cap, as I discovered. He just recommends you DON'T....
I have two CCTs here that the end cap will only fit one way, 180° rotation is not an option, so there must be at least two different housings.
As far as the broken spring and your devils choice if you would have retensioned the spring and reused the CCT -- well, I've got a couple of springs out of two failed CCTs. You've got to ask yourself one question, 'Do I feel lucky?' Well, do ya punk? I can have that bad boy in the mail in no time. You *may* have escaped one catastrophic CCT failure, wanna try for two?
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