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I have the 2011 kit on my trike and wonder if it was done before delivery or are they calling for all kits to be checked and welded. Any comments?
Randall, did the shop who triked your wing have any reservations at all with the csc kit? I like the csc but have a few reservations with all this about the drive shaft, what was the feeling you got from the trike makers?
I have been following this with great interest for several months. I ride an 03 Goldwing with an 09 CSC conversion. So far, I have only a few thousand miles on it and am not probably in any danger of immediate failure.
Other forums have mentioned splines not properly lubricated while others have said that they were greased although I might queston whether they were greased with the proper product. I assume that it is the CSC end that fails only because CSC sends replacement parts. Is this the case? Is it the CSC end that shears? If so, why? Industry has used spline couplings for decades without thses problems.
I am not in favor of just welding the shaft. As another person stated, it the axis are not in perfect alignment, the shaft will wobble, That puts loads on the transmission output bearing and the intermediate transmission input bearing that should not be there.
This spring, I will pull the shaft as part of my preseason maintenance. I will clean it, inspect it and lube it with the Moly 52 paste recommended by CSC.
Maybe I am missing something here, but it seems that with the proper steel, proper machining, proper hardening, proper lubrication and protection from the elements, this thing should outlast the trike. I am not satisfied that the "weld fix" is truely that. Please find the problem and FIX it.
Thank you,
Ken
I went by the Trike shop today, where my CSC Trike is being built, and ask about the drive shaft welding thing. They showed the shaft parts to me and explained what they were going to do and how they would have to do it. It has to be put in place and then welded. To get the shaft off after it is welded is another story. You would have to unbolt the kit and slide it back to give room to remove the shaft. There is no maintenance to be done on it after it is welded...This is a permenant fix
Thanks
Randall
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