Hi Everyone,
My name is Adrian and i have been around here for a little while, this is my first post but i have been a fan of the forum for a while now.
About a month ago when I was removing the variator everything was fine until I went to put the variator nut back on, the belt was too low on the variator when I torqued up the nut and thus it came loose when the belt rose up in the variator after about 30 mins use.
The outer alloy half ramp (not sure of name) has heated up a fair bit and deposited some alloy on the crankshaft spline as well as wear about a 1cm portion of the spline so that the outer half of the variator and starter ring gear will not slide all the way in.
My question is this;
Can I have the spline on the crank repaired by a machine shop, similar to what can be done to an input shaft in a car's gearbox. I would prefer to do this than replace the crank with a new one.