Clutch adjustments

[Easy-X]

The old fella's '70s KZ1000 started suffering clutch slip. 40+ years bike, who knows could be all original parts so we assumed wear and tear and bought a set of new clutch plates. Measuring the old ones they were basically at the limit so seemed like a good call.

Since the swap it's incredibly hard to get the bike into neutral. To some extent the new plates need to bed in and we did fiddle with the adjuster which initially seemed to work but it's got steadily worse to the point of ridiculousness

What we're aiming to do is strip it back down, wipe an oily rag over it so to speak and see if anything obvious jumps out at us. Looking at the parts diagram:

https://i.imgur.com/Og6uV6t.png

I'm thinking to check the steels for any warping, see if the ball-bearing (#19) has got AWOL, bent rod (eeeek!) and wear/play in the arm (#7/#35)

Anything else we should look for?

<edit> pic seems to have gone missing
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[Islander]

Basket wear/notching?

[to v or not to v]

prob user error if its gone from slipping to dragging.
did you measure the new plates thickness?
look to see if the ball bearing is there before taking it to bits again.
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[stinkwheel]

Cable unravelling inside the outer? Nipple not rotating in the lever.
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[sickpup]

Check the stack height of the new clutch. Probably need to take a couple of plates out and replace with the old ones.

[Easy-X]

Well everything looked pretty good today when we took the whole clutch to bits, no notching on the clutch basket. Gave everything a clean and re-grease and shock-horror the clutch is now working perfectly. Probably assembly error.
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Royal Enfield Continental GT 535, Husqvarna Vitpilen 401, Yamaha XSR700, Honda Rebel, Yamaha DT175, Suzuki SV650 (loan) Fazer 600, Keeway Superlight 125, 50cc turd scooter