Clutch cable lubrication question

Hi all

2008 FLHRC. I want to lubricate the clutch cable and want to loosen the cable adjuster off enough so that any crud or excess lube will drain out at that point.

In the manual under "clutch adjustment" part of the process is pulling the clutch inspection cover off and making clutch adjustments to the "clutch adjuster screw" inside the primary chaincase.

My question is do I have to go to through all the steps mentioned in this procedure or can I just loosen off the cable adjuster lube the cable and then tighten it back up until I get the proper clutch handle clearance?

Thanks

John

If you look in the book, the cable runs all way to the right hand side of the tranny. That would mean you would have to take the cover off and disassemble the easy pull.
To take the cable out that far to the end would be a bigger job than most people do to lubricate it. Probaly even the dealership.
And I don't see what you are really gonna gain by going that far.
Some of the cables If I remember right are teflon coated on the 07 and newer.
I use Tri Flow Spray to lubricate mine.
I would back off the cable adjustments and take the pin out that goes threw the clutch lever and lubricate the cable from the top.
Don't worry about it runnin out the bottom of the cable.

Haven't seen anybody pull it down to the derby cover off and pull it to let the lubricant run out the bottom side of cable just to lubricate the clutch cable..

Seems like over kill a little.

Sorry !

you've taken me from the right hand side of the tranny to the derby cover on the primary. I'm confused.

I swore he said he wanted to lubricate the clutch cable so the crud can run out the bottom.
I guess i can't understand what I read.

Thanks for the replies

This proceedure that I saw went like this:

the guy removed the clutch cable from the clutch handle and then took a small ziplok bag cut a small hole in the corner of it and then slipped the end of the clutch cable through the hole in the bag and sealed the bag hole around the cable with a twist tie or something and then filled the bag with lubricant, squeezed the bag which pushed the lube down into the cable. the reason he loosened the adjuster way off was so that any crap that might be flushed out of the cable wouldn't make it down into the clutch.

procedure looked like it would work quite well and I was going to try it but thats when I noticed that if I loosened off the cable adjuster I might have to remove the clutch inspection cover and make adjustments there. (Page 1-23 in the manual is where I was looking)

John

Page 2-75 is where the clutch cable comes out.

I wonder if we aren't talking about different adjusters. the one I'm talking about is the one located between the forks. It looks like my bike has a two piece cable no? It looked to me that by loosening that adjuster way off you could basically separate the two cables and the crap wouldn't make it into lower cable length or maybe I'm not seeing this right. Wouldn't be the first time

The adjuster on the cable where you are talkin about is where you can totally Back the cable length off so you can take the pin out of the clutch lever. And lub the cable that runs all the way to the bottom.
But remember you should have a teflon coated cable too.
And if trash made it 1/2 way down to the cable what about the rest of the cable, don't think it would of made it farther down.

Never tried to seperate it there. Not sure the cable will let you.

What page is that on Chucktx.

The way you guys are talking it looks like loosening off the adjuster for drainage is overkill. I think I'll just give the cable a wee sip and call her good.

Thanks again for the advice

John

HarleyHogs Clutch Cable Oiling

Then reattach the cable at the lever and adjust the slack out of the cable and you're good to go...about a 3 beer job

Wow !
Never seen anybody use a bag like that to lub a cable.
I would make a mess with it.



With the newer cables being Teflon coated and they slide easier I can't see going threw all that to lub a cable.

It don't take that much lub to lub a cable.
And the lever area needs to be lubed too.