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If it’s more durable, I’m good with the extra pound.
Team Roller had steel spider as well so new adapt will probably be similar weight. The new price on Adapts might reflect a coming recall involving replacing clutches. When I worked for Ford everytime they had a recall, the price of the new replacement part would drop drastically just before the replacements began. Dealers make money on parts, recall or not. Ford was mitigating losses.And que the aftermarket with a slew of lightweight billet spiders to replace the heavy stocker!
Seriously though, that should make it heavier than the Team roller primary too, but if it keeps them from exploding it's probably a win.
Wonder if this is why Country Cat was blowing out the original Adapt primaries for $400 last week?
Maybe they needed more weight to absorb the harmonics?I have gone thru (re-clutched) many sleds that come into my shop with the adapt - and have only been replacing the roller bushings- Never a cracked spring cup and only one that one sled I seen with a crack in the tower area. Never seen a spider let go and the adapts that blew the spider was intact .
1800 miles on my own adapt, and roller bushing were the only thing that were replaced. I have close to 200 mountain miles spinning 8350 rpm and the bronze bushings are still holding up.
I agree with Boondocker97- aftermarket spiders will now be "I better change that" and 99% of the buyers will never re-balance the clutch.
Wonder what Cat's theory is behind this..... sometimes bigger is not always better.
Can you explain this or post a pic?Flinging weights is just a bad idea.
Anyone remember when you would reweight a flinging clutch for high elevation?
The weights no longer where pressed against the rollers that also created a roller problem but you would add a shim to those high elevation weights to keep contact with the roller and weight.
Check your clutch, are the weights touching the rollers?
A hand grenade waiting for the pin to be pulled.
Slop is not necessarily a good thing to fling mass..
Hope their new idea is a step in the right direction.
Flinging weights is just a bad idea.
Anyone remember when you would reweight a flinging clutch for high elevation?
The weights no longer where pressed against the rollers that also created a roller problem but you would add a shim to those high elevation weights to keep contact with the roller and weight.
Check your clutch, are the weights touching the rollers?
A hand grenade waiting for the pin to be pulled.
Slop is not necessarily a good thing to fling mass..
Hope their new idea is a step in the right direction.
It's a few years old but wait for it
The TRA is the reason for me stumbling into the powerbloc, I hated those clutches. Do you have any idea how many springs and ramps they make
Ramps are weights for them
Yes, there's a lot of manufactures using that brand.
What makes those CVTs different and with a life span of actually outlasting the chassis is the weights stay in the center. They ride the inner sheave shaft as I'm sure your aware of
They don't grind into the towers or eat rollers since there's none.
The only place I could see the faster back shifting would be on the track, can't imagine it would be noticeable on cross country but some racers might prefer the lighter, smaller clutch mass.
I don't understand why anyone would want a clutch today to spool the RPMs up before engaging?
There's no need for that anymore these bigger liter machines engage at a lower RPM without the machine stumbling somewhere threw the throttle pull. A little 6 is running well over 100 ponies.
They need to toss these clutches and go with something people can work with but that doesn't make money.
Doo really went after it with what they did to their p drives, for being such a big clutch they are very sensitive to throttle response.
I appreciate the conversation.