oops!

[rjflyer]

I have the Intrepid gas and think I have gotten lube on my clutch. Is there a way to ease the clutch out without dropping the engine or removing the main gear? It is so much work to drop the engine :(

[MarkWebber]

Nope...but the main gear route is the easier of the two.

[rjflyer]

Thanks Mark, It is never easy, I put tri-flo on all my bearings THEN I saw the post about DO NOT LUBE the clutch bearing. I try to read all posts that might apply to me but missed that one :roll: Oh well.
How is your camera ship doing since you and Chris worked on it at Ashland?

[MarkWebber]

I did note on a recent teardown that my cluch had gotten just a bit of lube out of the bearing and was just starting to slip a bit.

I really feel bad that Chris spent that much time on my heli when the trouble turned out to be a bent crankshaft. He's still some kind of awesome heli tuner. :noteworthy It was still incredibly smooth despite the twitch in the tail from bent crank vibes. I was very hopeful, though, after seeing how nice your was running when they got done with it. Have you been able to get much time in on yours since then?

[rjflyer]

Mark, did a few cautionary hovers and then some slow figure eights. did some maintenance( this is where I put some lube on the start shaft bearing and top of clutch bell). Got a bad vibe next time out. took clutch out to clean and found a bad bearing in the start shaft. I have to order bearing from Bergen. Looking to get it back together to try again.