C15 swinging arm thrust washer

[Tigerfeet]

On my project C15 the gap on the swinging arm is 0.09". None of the shim sets I have seen available will fill a gap this wide. I guess I need a 0.08 - 0.085 thrust washer/shim. Does anyone know of anybody that might supply such a thing?  (I've no idea why my gap is apparently wider than normal.)

[Ian C]

This perhaps needs the part no. 40-4213 Thrust washer? I'm no expert on the C15's but this part is listed for them.

[scifi]

Have you actually taken the spindle out yet.  On some other bikes they get so stuck that they have to be melted out.   Yours has obviously ran for some time with that amount of free play, so why change it..?  If the bushes are worn then that is more of a problem.

[Tigerfeet]

Spindle came out ok with hot air gun on the central portion, a big soft drift and a lump hammer. I've managed to find some shims on eBay with 22mm id and 32mm od, and opened them up 0.5mm with a tapered stone in a drill. I've got the spindle in the freezer ready for the reassembly stage.

It only had a grease nipple at one end. I had imagined that somehow this greased the whole thing (wrong!). During disassembly I found the grease nipple hole in the other spindle bolt was packed with rubbish and painted over...