Hard to pull away!

**mad48** · 28 Sep 08, 07:25 PM

Yo peeps I have had a good look and can't find a previous thread, so appologies if it has been covered.

I went out for a mega days blat yesterday and towards the end of the day the bike was like a bag of ****e when pulling away from any junction or lights, my first thought is stretched chain and second is knackered clutch, what ya recon?

**Lucazade 749s** · 28 Sep 08, 07:51 PM

Describe exactly how it felt as for example if the engine was spinning up quickly to high revs but bike was not going (all grunt but no go) then clutch was slipping.

**mad48** · 28 Sep 08, 09:58 PM

Rather than a smooth bite and acceleration it would get to biting and then crunch and clunk sounding like a bag of nails, until it would start to accelerate smoothly again, once up to second and beyond it was fine. I'm sure not slipping as once over the initial clunking and stuttering in 1st it was fine, revs matched acceleration for sure!

**royum** · 28 Sep 08, 10:00 PM

I'd remove the plates and give the clutch a thoroughly good clean.

**mad48** · 28 Sep 08, 10:03 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by royum

I'd remove the plates and give the clutch a thoroughly good clean.

Will defo look at doing a stripdown of the clutch asap

**Lucazade 749s** · 28 Sep 08, 10:11 PM

If it was like a grinding noise (similar to old wooden floors) then as mentioned clean the clutch. Would also check if you have all the tooth on sprockets and they are in good shape and chain is well tensioned.
That is for starters.
Sounds similar to what my monster was doing but it had a wet clutch. Tried the sprocket/chain route. At the end gave up but it was annoying and got worse as bike started doing it under hard acceleration. Came out to be damaged spark plug lead and under heavy load miss fire.

**mad48** · 11 Oct 08, 09:01 PM

Just to update on this one peeps.

I did a complete strip down of the clutch last week, the basket and plates are pretty mooolard. Gave it all a good clean, filed down where necessary and shuffled around the plates to get a better mix of good and bad plates. Adjusted the chain.

Gave it its first ragging today and the clutch was perfect but noisy, a little slipping at the at high revs. later on in the evening it was finally starting to do the same whilst pulling away as before.

So new basket and plates required for sure.

Had a fekkin great blat