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Difficult to shift to neutral when stopped

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When it's hot, do you mean the clutch is tight - as in grabby and hard to find neutral - or the cable is tight - as in zero end play on the clutch lever?
My experience is that I get more end play on the lever when everything heats up and expands a bit.
- Also, I'm pretty sure you have aftermarket steels at least, and probably fibers too. Using the bikes I've worked on in the past as reference, the Suzuki steels were dimpled as pictured above.
 
RKM50 said:
Turns out the bike sat for 6 years and had more gas in the crankcase than oil.
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You should look into your petcock too. It either has a bad diaphragm and is leaking through cylinder #2 or just doesn't seal anymore and is leaking gas into the cylinders when parked.
 
When the engine is hot the play at the clutch lever goes away. I had installed new fiber plates recently.

The petcock seems to work. It has three positions, off, no gas flowing.
On, gas flows only when engine is running and reserve, gas flows with engine running or not. Is that correct? It's not leaking so I hate to take it off and mess with it. It may have sat in the reserve position all those years, I don't know.
 
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That's how it's supposed to work, but keep checking the crankcase to be sure
 
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