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If it's not snatchy or juddery, there won't be anything wrong with the basket. If it is you can just gently file the tangs a little to get rid of the grooves, though obvs not with the bike on it's side...make sure to polish smooth with wet and dry. :)
Clutch is a 20 minute job. You just need a flat surface and feeler gauges to check the old steel plates are flat (if you're reusing them) and verniers to measure the springs. Seriously though, I'd just order new springs and friction plates and whack it back together. I've never warped a steel plate, even on my old 125 race bikes and those things experience clutch apocalypse every start!
I need to have another crack at my XR650R clutch - fucker is slipping again. In their infinite wisdom, Honda made it the weakest part of the bike - only 4 lousy springs holding 50+ hp in race trim. Needs all HD springs really but my hands are getting so fucked I can't abide heavy clutches.
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So at least it wasn't cold today. Out come the tools.
Springs bang on tolerances and the plates are remarkably flat without even minor gouging. Feelers agree. I'll be replacing them come spring, but everything is super clean inside the basket.
Anyway, that can't be it. Bit of a chin wag and I was thinking that with a won clutch, there would be some either abrupt gear drops or sudden loss of power. This was non of it, gradual from 4k up.Let's reassemble. Reinstalling the worn drive and notice the clutch cable bracket is alarmingly worn out..touching the sprocket nut..which is about halfway threaded into the output shaft...
Picture the rest.
Luckily just some burring and no substantial damage to either sprocket or shaft splines.
I suppose I don't really trust anyone to work on my bicycles, so not sure why I trusted someone to tighten that nut for me.What's the spring rate on the XR's clutch? 4 heavies & off road must be a ballache?
Chak
Not the foggiest. Oil changes still come out clean with no swarf which is a miracle. If it calls for it, might do the whole basket.
@hanford The bikes are cockroaches. So far it's been more reliable than the Tiger with 4x the miles.