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Message started by sillydilly on 02/19/12 at 20:54:39

Title: Slipping Clutch - Cleaning it?
Post by sillydilly on 02/19/12 at 20:54:39

I was dumb enough to use a heavy ratio of Lucas oil stabilizer on my bike when I rebuilt it, and later found out that this was the probably cause of my clutch slipping.

Whats the best way to cleanse the disks and plates? I was told to soak in gas overnight and sand them slightly with a fine grit paper.

Would this also have any relation to clutch springs? do those need to be replaces as well? bike has roughly 33,000 km on it.

Anybody else know of any ideas to clean your clutch and make it perform better?

Title: Re: Slipping Clutch - Cleaning it?
Post by Oldfeller on 02/19/12 at 21:06:30

Here is the reference you are looking for

http://suzukisavage.com/cgi-bin/YaBB.pl?num=1270678838/0

.... as far as springs go, you can shim them with a hardware store washer each to increase the spring pressure (just one washer per spring) or you can replace them with aftermarket springs (barnett - expensive).

My experience is that with clean, roughed up plates and a correct clutch rod length that the stock springs will do the job just fine.

NOBODY HERE has gone where you are now before, so please understand we can't give you a 100% certain step by step on how to recover from a terminal case of Lucas disease.

So, as you do it please keep on posting the details -- we will all learn something useful from it.

Title: Re: Slipping Clutch - Cleaning it?
Post by sillydilly on 02/19/12 at 21:52:46

so by the looks of things, Im buying a new pushrod, shimming my springs, and gas/hot water soaking and scrubbing my plates and disks.

where does a guy by the push rod? and should I go for the 46.5mm one?

Title: Re: Slipping Clutch - Cleaning it?
Post by Oldfeller on 02/20/12 at 08:18:14

Where does your clutch actuation rod sit relative to the marks on the crankcase? (see pictures in thread reference)

http://suzukisavage.com/cgi-bin/YaBB.pl?num=1246935676/0

You buy Suzuki rods from a parts store (part numbers are in the thread references)

Title: Re: Slipping Clutch - Cleaning it?
Post by sillydilly on 02/20/12 at 09:02:00

not entirely sure, I have it all apart right now, but I will measure it anyway