Re shimming shift drum on my eldorado 5 speed , the consensus seems to be approximately give or take a 1.00 mm shim at the front of the selector drum (clutch end) and then adjust the rear shims to allow drum to spin with no end float and measured with no gasket insitu . and then make adjustments to shims to centralise the sliding collar between 1st and 2nd , this I have done but to obtain that setting I have had to put 1.15 mm of shims in the front of drum which may be too much but sliding collar is central to 1st and 2nd in neutral and I have an equal clearance between the dogs of collar and 1st and 2nd dogs when engaged in each of those gears so forks are not bound up on collar when engaged and the fork is free to move in the sliding collar , the box snicks nicely between all gears and seem great just my front shim seems to be larger than the 1mm that most people speak of . what have others ended up with on front of drum shim. results were acheived with input and out put nuts secured and gasket in place and have read peter ropers and greg bender charlie cole greg field and karl hartmeyer literature , My Question is what dimension approxamately should the front shim normally be thanks Ray
