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Pain in the Clutch

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Lobo:
Lynx, is the engine just rebuilt (looks it).... could it be due to a case gasket of the wrong thickness?

Lynx:
Hi Lobo. Yes it's completely rebuilt. Any particular gasket? I do have other clutch spares I can try but I chose the best looking ones originally. I need to order another basket damper kit first.

Lobo:
Hi Lynx... no personal experience of 'bad gaskets' here, and simply er... 'clutching' at straws as you seem to have been meticulous about every other aspect. TBH the adjuster indeed looks as though it's compensating for way more than a mil or two of gasket.
Be sure to let us know how what the problem 'was' & good luck..

Lynx:
Woohoo! Sorted. We'll much better anyway. I swapped out the whole clutch and lifting mechanism with used spares I had. The first test it was fine. If anything, a bit the other way. Clutch only bit at the end of the lever travel. I thrashed it up to 9k a couple of times but it didn't slip. For the second test I rode it into town to pick up a couple of things. It was fine most the time but did clonk a bit when changing into 1st. Then when I got home I had trouble getting it into neutral again, but it wasn't pulling like before. I still don't know what was causing the bad drag before. All the old bits (including new plates ) look fine and very similar to what I've put in.

Lobo:
Good news; interesting to read little visible difference noted, but 'a whole different feel'

Simon.

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