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Hi All, great forum here, looking for some help getting a clutch cbale adjusted properly.
I have a friend with a 78 GS750 and he called me yesterday to help with a clutch issue. the clutch was working fine until the cable broke, so I ordered him a new one from flea bay and it came in last week. he was installing it yesterday when he called me, said he couldn't get it adjusted right. he has a chiltons (or clymer, i forget which is which) manual for it, so I went over there to have a look. i looked at what he was doing and thought, oh you just don't have it adjusted right so the plates are still dragging, easy huh?
nope. I adjust the screw in until I feel slight tension, then back off a quarter turn and set the lock nut. when adjusted this way, the lever is VERY hard to pull and it doesn't release the clutch at all. bike won't roll and dies if you put it in gear. so I try a little bit looser with the set screw, maybe another 1/8 turn out, and it gets a little easier to pull the lever but the clutch never releases. I go looser and looser with the set screw until there is basically no resistance and the lever doesn't return on its own and it never releases the clutch. I have tried with the adjuster right at where resistance is felt and even tighter, and i can get the clutch to release so I can ride the bike, the effort to pull the lever is WAY too much and it still drags quite a bit. i rode the bike before (last year) and it was nowhere near this hard to pull the clutch, it was much smoother. nothing else has changed, just the cable, i am stumped. Any ideas from anyone here? Thanks in advance.
I have a friend with a 78 GS750 and he called me yesterday to help with a clutch issue. the clutch was working fine until the cable broke, so I ordered him a new one from flea bay and it came in last week. he was installing it yesterday when he called me, said he couldn't get it adjusted right. he has a chiltons (or clymer, i forget which is which) manual for it, so I went over there to have a look. i looked at what he was doing and thought, oh you just don't have it adjusted right so the plates are still dragging, easy huh?
nope. I adjust the screw in until I feel slight tension, then back off a quarter turn and set the lock nut. when adjusted this way, the lever is VERY hard to pull and it doesn't release the clutch at all. bike won't roll and dies if you put it in gear. so I try a little bit looser with the set screw, maybe another 1/8 turn out, and it gets a little easier to pull the lever but the clutch never releases. I go looser and looser with the set screw until there is basically no resistance and the lever doesn't return on its own and it never releases the clutch. I have tried with the adjuster right at where resistance is felt and even tighter, and i can get the clutch to release so I can ride the bike, the effort to pull the lever is WAY too much and it still drags quite a bit. i rode the bike before (last year) and it was nowhere near this hard to pull the clutch, it was much smoother. nothing else has changed, just the cable, i am stumped. Any ideas from anyone here? Thanks in advance.
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