slippage issues

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jimizee028

jimizee028

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so everyday the norm is wake up brush the teeth hook up a diet coke sit in front of the computer and go to big dog biker site...i read all the posts about everything,so last week in gettysburg notice bike is walking when I pull in clutch lever... still also cant get neutral real easy,go about adjusting clutch... would be ok for a little while then i would either have slippage or bike would start walkin again,course at this time i am totally paranoid cause sturgis is in 2 weeks and life is pretty good so i am worried to death after seeing and hearing about the catastrophic failures comin from some of your guys clutch assemblies and all the same symtoms are present in my case,well today i drop the outer primary open it all up and i literally can wiggle my entire clutch basket and hub assembly back and forth side to side at least 1/2 inch...i am flippin thinkin auto matically the basket has snapped like the pictures on the posts from you guys,i dissassemble entire clutch assembly and it is not destroyed put it all back together and tighten everything down LIKE ITS SUPPOSSED TO BE and to my surprise i have no wiggle no play just a tight ass assembly that looks like no problems,put it all back together readjust clutch cause now it is way too tight,put primary fluid in take it for a spin and everything seems ok............my guess is the hub assembly bolt loosened up and the entire cluth basket was loose,,,,could this be the start of why all these clutch assemblies are blowin up??????has this happened to anyone else???well gone down under to have shrimp on the barbie..................
 
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Gas Man

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sounds to me like you just have a loose tranny nut.

I have saw 3 this year that were just hand tight.

What heppens is the nut backs off and gives the basket room to slide on the spline gears. You pull the cable with activates the ball ramp and pushes the clutch rod into the diaphram spring. But instead of it pushing the diaphram spring and loosening its grip on the plates. It pushes the whole basket out on the tranny input shaft but not disengaging the clutch.

I hope you cleaned the threads, applied a LIBERAL amount of red loctite and torqued to 80ft lbs
 
holyrollerboy

holyrollerboy

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Aloha Gas Man!

Your are the man :2thumbs: ...me I'm a "brochanic" as opposed to being a mechanic:bang: .... I break almost everything I touch on my bike:rant: :bang: :choppersmiley: ....
 
Michaelb

Michaelb

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Hey jimizee028, how many miles do you have on your bike? have you ever had the clutch basket off before? I have 950 mile and mine was walking a bit. but I adjust the clutch and all seem good.
 
jimizee028

jimizee028

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i have 7500 miles on it and it was the first time the primary was ever cracked on it............
 
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Gas Man

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Yeah that is the second time you said that. Is that ok on our shitty input shafts?
 
dogvet

dogvet

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Gas Man said:
Yeah that is the second time you said that. Is that ok on our shitty input shafts?
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The shaft will hold that torque just fine Gas Man. I've noticed on some of the Dogs I've worked on that the o-ring behind the clutch hub gets pretty ate up as well like is was smashed out between the hub and shim in the tranny. Tried running a couple of bikes without the o-ring (I put flouresent dye in the trans fluid to watch for oil transfer) increased the torque and so far, no oil transfer to the primary and no loose hub nut. 5000+ miles so far and no issues.
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