Quote Originally Posted by Freddy View Post
Unfortunately, regarding Spyders, there is a lot of misinformation that once started perpetuates to the level of incorrect but believed as fact, when it is entirely incorrect. said PMK.

The above is one such example. The purpose of the bolt is to provide sufficient clamping force of the pulley to the shoulder of the shaft so that the splines do not transmit the load. This was stated a decade ago in a TSB by BRP when pulley splines first started to wear/strip 'due to inadequate clamping force.' At that time the bolt torque from the factory was 88ftlb iirc.
So you want to wear out the inter 1/8" of the splines????? The real issue is the quality of the splines in the drive pulley. Clamp it with the bolt as tight was you want, at some point the total load will be on the splines themselves. It is like putting lip stick on a pig!