by ambike » Fri Nov 24, 2017 5:17 am
" What I don't exactly understand is why this spacer is 0.057" shorter then the early one. "
I guess you guys will have to find a stash of NOS # 41600-52 spacers and measure & compare.
Good luck / mazel tov, but I also find these ongoing mysteries compelling.
So, I called my oldest sister who was alive back then and posed the question of rear spacers with the same part number possibly having a .057 " differential.
Note : She's highly educated with multiple degrees in her field including journalism. Here's what she replied -
Dave, firstly, before you were born, we were fortunate to have enough food on the table. We were not quibbling whether a breakfast or lunch was missed, and certainly no discussion over any servings being fractions of an ounce light was countenanced. The quantity of our nutrition was not scalable. As for any mechanical arithmetic, I highly doubt the same parts would have such a wide range of tolerance. You know as well as I that our Father would never allow such slop to ship from our manufacturing company. Undoubtedly, your OCD affliction for numeric perfection was inherited from our gestapo-like Father, but I must confess your world class cynicism for why we're enduring what we do has educated me beyond any formal training I've experienced. Indeed, as I reach the later stages of my teaching career with the progressives running amok and cramming Common Core pogroms down my throat, I've become quite comfortable smiling while I pass low-IQ uneducables. I've tried, the Lord knows I have, but I am weary. You have taught me well. Those students will never achieve proficiency with even the most rudimentary lessons. No longer will I be a fool. I've been using your attitude to say ____ them, and you know I don't use foul language. What happened ? I always thought of Honda and the Japanese being exceedingly precise.
I thought she understood I was referring to Harley-Davidson Motor Co. in 1950's America. When I made the situation clear, she abruptly told me to change the subject matter and quit wasting her time with nonsensical questions, the answers to which we both knew. Her name, Cheryl, and another applicable word, are both spelled with a capital C .