About 1.5-2 mm (1/16"). Doesn't seem much, but if You think- this is like adding one more plate. I have done this too , but on a different bike- I had access to more steel plates and put 1 more. My clutch was slipping before that and was not after.

thanks Slavy, it's a new cable - and it doesn't slip much just under heavy throttle in 4th or 5th at low rpm's - and since it's coming apart for a new cam chain seems reasonable to replace the plates at this mileage.

i have mine apart too,i'm going to do the washer thing when i put it back together.i'm going to use suzuki plates.i dont know why savages are hard on clutches...i wish there could be more fiction surface on the plates

as for the torque of the nut,i have no idea,we couldnt budge it with the torque wrench,we had to use a air gun.and the manual is out in the shed and its raining like hell,so i have no idea whats its supposed to be.

Reelthing wrote on 12/31/69 at 16:00:12:


thats what mine did for about three months,and it just kept getting worse,until one day it slipped in first when i was just starting out of the driveway.

i'll try to take some pics as soon as i get jim-r over here,i dont know why but i can never bring my self to buy a camera,i guess thats what freinds are for x-mas is comming ...hint,hint

no i didnt , do u need to know how many thousandths,and crap like that?  i think the old plates were like 15 thousandths beyond the sevice limit i dont have the new plates yet .

when my dad gets home i'll measure them with his caliper.  already did this once, but like an idiot i didnt write anything down,now i cant remember a thing