The bike has a snappy clutch with next to no slip when pulling away from a standstill due to the clutch drying out over the 18 months it sat in the previous owners front room.
The new gasket turned up for the clutch cover and I got to work on it today and rebuild it 24 hours later. Not everyone has seen a clutch out or know how it’s done so I thought I’d put this up.
Reg/rec replaced under warrenty and a dry clutch. Total cost to me £11 for the gasket. If someone could of spotted these problems before I’d be surprised.
If it does, I believe those three black screws in the middle of the clutch with the nuts around them, are the lifter pins that control the amount of slip you get from the slipper clutch.
From memory, you turn them in to increase slip under deceleration and out to reduce slip.
Don’t turn them in too far though as you’ll get slip under normal acceleration.
If you still have problems after soaking the plates, then you can try this.
I had a snatchy clutch on the rattracker …It had sat for years in a box in bits . Did it all right soaked em for 24 hours in bike oil took the rust off the steels with wet nd dry … Put it back together … Still snatchy … Took it back out soaked them in gtx magnatec … Yeah the stuff ya dont use in bikes cos it makes the clutch slip … Put do back in filled bike with normal bike oil … Perfect job done slipped a bit to much at first but after a few miles though it all came good … Been good since … Touch wood
Duno if a good idea with a modern bike though … I distance myself from any **** up made by doin any things I do
Slip is what clutches need to do as you feed them in. Bite point is where it stops slipping.
If you don’t have controllable clutch slip, it makes riding/driving a real dog. There is at least some slippage built into race bikes and cars, even F1 cars*.
(*They tend to spend £numerous with two or three clutches and a shed load of electronics to control the complexity of feeding them in and call the whole set up “launch control” or some such.)
After 50 years of effing about with (including some effing up!) of things mechanical, I still think it’s a great feeling when you do a job and everything works as it should again.
