Clutch replacement advice

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Like any other clutch- it slips a bit on high load / hard accel. But unlike a car that has 1 friction disk in a dry hot environment- the is a stack of numerous layers of disks lubricated by the engine oil.


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Mine has started to grab a bit. When I put the bike in gear with the clutch pulled in, I can feel it wanting to creep forward. When the engine is hot, it is much harder to get the bike to go into neutral.

Your basket fingers could be worn. I don’t envision you to be hard on the clutch so doubt the metal disks are overheated and warped.


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Your basket fingers could be worn. I don’t envision you to be hard on the clutch so doubt the metal disks are overheated and warped.
Thank you, Dubs. I wish I knew what that meant. Does it need a visit to the mechanic?

The clutch plates are circle shaped with tabs that stick out-





They are an alternating stack of metal and fiber friction plates clamped down with springs.

When you pull in your clutch- the plates separate from each other allowing the bike to slip the engine friction. When you release the clutch- the springs reclamp the disks back together and friction locks them and away you go.


The tabs on the clutch disks sit inside the clutch basket. The basket has fingers that line up the tabs on the clutch plates-




When the disks spread or clamp- they are spinning with the engine- so the tabs ride back and forth against the clutch basket fingers.

Every time you get on or off the gas- the plates move a little forward or backward wiggle inside the clutch basket and make a small impact. Eventually that impact starts to wear the fingers and creates notches.




Those notches make it difficult for the plates to move back and forth across the fingers when clamping / unclamping.





That leads to plates not fully separating so the clutch drags, finding neutral is more difficult, etc.


Tons of websites on it-

Basic- https://www.dirtrider.com/features/proti...nspection/


More advanced- https://www.diymotofix.com/blog/how-to-p...t-a-clutch