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bucksfizz:
I finally got round to removing the clutch.
Talk about a pain trying to remove the castellated nut securing the clutch basket.
Even with the correct tool and locking the clutch with the bike in 1st gear and the rear brake on, the nut refused to budge.
The problem was that I couldn't get enough purchase on the nut and hold the rear brake pedal down at the same time.
In the end, I locked the clutch with Mole grips/channel lock pliers butting up against a length of wood:

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The clutch plates were reasonably clean, but I cleaned them with petrol nonetheless.
With fresh oil in the oil tank, I fired her up, and selected 1st gear...
Hurrah! A noiseless gear selection - as I thought, it was clutch drag.
I'm just hoping the noisy gear selection won't return.
If it does, I'll try the clutch basket modification.

Nurse Julie:
We'll done 👍👍👍

MarkCR750:
I did the clutch mod on mine, it still clunks into first, I’ve never seen one that doesn’t, it’s about 3 years ago that I did the mod but I seem to remember it was an improvement, if you really want to avoid the crunch buy a Carby 900ss, proper dry clutch set up on that , I can’t even tell it’s gone into first sometimes!

Green1:
Both my Hondas and Kawasaki's go crunch but my Guzzi goes with a BANG
They all make a lovely noise when you put them in gear while still reving a bit high on the choke  ;D

Trigger:

--- Quote from: MarkCR750 on October 18, 2019, 09:06:03 PM ---I did the clutch mod on mine, it still clunks into first, I’ve never seen one that doesn’t, it’s about 3 years ago that I did the mod but I seem to remember it was an improvement, if you really want to avoid the crunch buy a Carby 900ss, proper dry clutch set up on that , I can’t even tell it’s gone into first sometimes!

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The clutch mod is only for the early clutches as, they did not have any drain holes.

Bucksfizz, that is the worst way to lock a clutch up. It is very easy the break the alloy parts, you can lock a clutch with only 4 washers  ;)

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