What HAPPENED to my CLUTCH ?

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Old 04-01-2007, 01:49 AM
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Dogged her for 50 miles today, mostly 2nd and 3rd gear. Clutch seems to have survived fine....I plan to change the oil and filter now, if there was crap in the oil, the filter should be clogged well now !
 
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Old 04-01-2007, 03:13 AM
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ORIGINAL: Shadetree

I might mention that our little KLX seems to have a pretty tough clutch. I got in some nasty mud in Terlingua, Texas in January. A KLR 650 and a DRZ 400 shelled their clutches when mud got packed between the swing arm and the rear wheel. My 250S just kept on chugging and chunking mud.

Check out the whole story in Ride Oklahoma's April issue.

www.rideok.com
That wasn't on a ride in BBNP where the weather turned sour and ended up an impromptu overnight trip in the chilly desert was it? Perhaps with a fella that goes by "Z-Rod" ? If not, the similarities are uncanny.
 
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Old 04-01-2007, 06:51 AM
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Finger Mullet, when the rod at the top going into the cover turns, what happens inside to disengage the clutch? My Suzuki Z400 had a rod that went from one side of the engine to the other to push it open, this looks different than that.
The rod on our bike is not circular, when ya twist it.... it pushes in the lever/pin on the seated clutch pinion in my pic....... it moves horizontally a very small distance. It seems obvious to me after seeing it but tough to explain.
 
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Old 04-01-2007, 02:57 PM
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Is it an offset cam, so when it rotates it pushes in? That would make sense.
 
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