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Struggling with clutch adjustment

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paul G:
Another issue could be that the teeth on the basket and pressure plate that hold the friction plates are not aligned correctly.
I did this on the 750 and when the pressure plate is tightened down it locks the clutch instead of lining up with the groves on the basket.
I would re-check this first.

deltarider:
Warning. I've once torqued the 4 bolts on my CB500's clutch. Every time I followed the manual and torqued at the prescribed value, the heads snapped of. No exception. Ever since I have used my senses, which can be accurate and... no problem.

Sesman:
I also own an F2 (the fastest model) :). I’ll be assembling my clutch this weekend, so I’ll report back if I encounter any problems.

andy120t:
I've seen a number of comments about the torque values and snapping old bolts so I'll be very wary and work on pinching them up plus maybe a quarter turn. Seems that subject to torque settings, the bolts are all the way in and since that's what I had previously then there must be something else I've not picked up yet.

 Will check alignment too - they are old plates so they've been removed, unstuck and replaced so I'm fairly sure they are OK but it's all worth rechecking.

Sesman:
I didn’t register a torque setting for this bolts, so I went for 6ftlbs and left it at that. Basically turned them until they ‘shouldered’ and another half turn. About as tight as I’ve ever tightened a 6mm bolt and I’ve never had a problem.

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