wheel_of_steel
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Hello all, long time lurker but first time posting.
I would like some advice from members who have replaced their clutch plates. Current situation: I have a manual 700S training bike that has used up all the clutch cable freeplay adjustment - both at the lever and on the clutch arm. This is natural for a training bike but the wear rate was high until I replaced the original cable with the longer item from the manual integra. But even at a normal wear rate, the time had come to throw a set of fibers in there to restore the clutch stack height back to original.
Long story short, the new fibers are in, after reassembly the clutch arm angle is still quite bad. If you are sitting on the bike, there is no resistance in the clutch arm until about the 10 O clock position. Naturally I assumed assembly error so I've checked and rechecked the following:
-Clutch plates were soaked in oil for 24h before assembly
-Clutch lifter rod (in the RHS cover) is assembled correctly
-RHS cover is sitting flush with the engine case
-Clutch plate B (the thinner disc) is aligned with the second set of teeth on the clutch basket
-Judder spring installed such that there's almost no slop once the clutch basket is assembled
-Clutch spring free length is in spec
So is there any low hanging fruit that I've missed in terms of reassembly tricks?
Can anyone take a photo of a newish 700 clutch arm to give an idea of the appropriate arm angle?
I can shim under the lifter plate to adjust the clutch arm angle, but that definitely feels like the wrong way to go about this.
TIA,
-Tom
I would like some advice from members who have replaced their clutch plates. Current situation: I have a manual 700S training bike that has used up all the clutch cable freeplay adjustment - both at the lever and on the clutch arm. This is natural for a training bike but the wear rate was high until I replaced the original cable with the longer item from the manual integra. But even at a normal wear rate, the time had come to throw a set of fibers in there to restore the clutch stack height back to original.
Long story short, the new fibers are in, after reassembly the clutch arm angle is still quite bad. If you are sitting on the bike, there is no resistance in the clutch arm until about the 10 O clock position. Naturally I assumed assembly error so I've checked and rechecked the following:
-Clutch plates were soaked in oil for 24h before assembly
-Clutch lifter rod (in the RHS cover) is assembled correctly
-RHS cover is sitting flush with the engine case
-Clutch plate B (the thinner disc) is aligned with the second set of teeth on the clutch basket
-Judder spring installed such that there's almost no slop once the clutch basket is assembled
-Clutch spring free length is in spec
So is there any low hanging fruit that I've missed in terms of reassembly tricks?
Can anyone take a photo of a newish 700 clutch arm to give an idea of the appropriate arm angle?
I can shim under the lifter plate to adjust the clutch arm angle, but that definitely feels like the wrong way to go about this.
TIA,
-Tom