B Murr
Registered user
A hypothetical question it hasn't happened to me but I know it's ended a few tours for others. Assuming one has the knowledge of how to remove the box and open it up to replace with that spare spring you've cleverly packed in your tool kit. In my mind the big obstacle is getting that flange off, do you carry the heavy flange puller with you or will most local mechanics workshops in rural mainland europe have such a tool and then of course have a suitable setup to clamp the box while pulling the flange off . If you did have a flange puller with you would it be possible to get enough leverage by leaving the box still attached to engine? I do have the little tool to get it into a gear should the spring fail but that's of limited use if you're at the start of a tour unless you think you can survive on one gear without burning the clutch out