thedirekter
New Member
The biggest problem on my last frame was that the stock tensioner would always get thrown out of place after dumping the clutch to start. This eventually led to the chain stay bending terribly and it couldn't keep a chain on so I had to retire it (as seen in my previous post). In light of that, I had actually been thinking about a similar tensioner for this Schwinn I'm working on. The chain stay was too close to the rim to run the drive chain straight back to the gear, so I cut a chunk out of the chain stay and welded on a new section of steel that held the stay together, but cleared the chain.
I now don't have to run a tensioner since I cut the chain shorter, but I was going to fab a small arm coming off of the stay with one of the same jockey/idler pulley gears to be a guide to help the chain go straight back onto the axle gear.
I now don't have to run a tensioner since I cut the chain shorter, but I was going to fab a small arm coming off of the stay with one of the same jockey/idler pulley gears to be a guide to help the chain go straight back onto the axle gear.