Clutch Removal

Damn! if there is one thing I haven't got yet is that stupid plastic wedge. Harley may sell them now but they never used to sell any tools - bastards. I'm tired of busting up wood on the gears. Once I got a 2 x 2 piece of redwood. That actually worked good a few times. This last time, I cut up a plastic shovel handle and jammed it in there lol. I just keep forgetting to order the right wedge.

I don't know anything about sportys but I'd be surprised if that is a pressed on gear????

Come to learn that the rotor and sprocket are bolted together. SM was pretty vague. OK, pretty smooth sailing now.

So far everything that I have seen in the primary has looked pretty good. The only two things that I am questioning are these. One, the comp nut was what I thought way too easy to break loose. Looking at the nut and the threads on the crank it is easy to see that there was no locktite use so this leads me to believe that the comp nut has never been taken off since original install. Two, kind of playing around a little, I can move the adjustment screw back and forth a lot. By this I mean about .125"

Does anyone know if that screw should have that much play in it? One of those things that make you go HMMMMMM?

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Johnny the sproket is bolted to the rotor the tension you feel are the magnets pulling back from the stator also one you get it moving dont stop and keep the meat of tour fingers clear if you loose your grip it will pinch the shit out of your skin .best thing to do is clean all the primary oil off with brake clean, and compressed air the grab ahold and pull towards you .

Today after work I should be able to get it done.

Well I finally got the clutch off off the Sportster and so far I am not seeing anything that is alarming. Tomorrow I am going to Derek's and going to separate the plates. Here are just a few photos.

Looks a lot cleaner than some I've seen at Tattoo's. For some reason, people around here don't ever seem to change their oil .

Yeah I am religious about oil changes

It's broken.

The clutch is slipping in 5th gear under power and was making a noise very similar to pinging. I looked through the carb, found nothing wrong there, I looked at the plugs and the were just old. I readjusted the clutch a couple of times. Finally I noticed that I wasn't able to get the adjustment needed at the cable. I took the clutch apart so I can investigate. I find that the comp nut seemed to be more loose than what it should be based on effort to break it loose. I am being thorough, I am not going to just replace parts and hope it gets fixed. I want to know what it is that is causing my clutch to slip. Just saying.

Today I opened the clutch and got a really good look at the steels, basket and friction plates. All look really good but I need to get a caliper on the friction plates to find out if they are within tolerance or not.

Yeah, it's possible they are too thin and that could be your problem, since everything else checks out. Thinner plates sometimes warp from overheating, causing them to slip. When I had mine out, I checked the flatness of them on a sheet of glass. You could also use the top of a tablesaw or some other surface you know to be perfectly flat.

Well I got to my clutch today and I measured the steel and friction plates. My friction plates measure .700" but my steele plates are warped out spec. I bought a 15% stronger spring to go in I will still use it.

Today I got my friction and steel plates orderd. I decided to go with the Barnett carbon fiber extra plate kit. Should be back on the road real soon.