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Not been on here for a long time. I have just come back from the Manx GP where I was racing a Rickmam Metisse G50 with a 5 speed Hemmings gbox. There were a few problems to say the least on a bike that we had gone through with a toothcomb but the IOM does that to bikes. Basically I lost all the clutch lift and retired at Ballaugh Bridge first lap. On inspection the gbox mainsheet has about 2mm off play and has drifted outwards. The clutch had overheated earlier in the week and we think that it has melted the clutch drum nut loctite and the mainsheet bearing loctite. The question to the experts please is whether the mainshaft bearings are just retained with high strength loctite and can this be fixed in situ like the layshaft bearing once did? Thanks.