Clutch Replacement

[idaida98]

Can anyone recommend a reputable  place or person to have a clutch replaced? I'm in RI. The clutch sometimes makes a sound I have never heard before.

[matt]

It is not hard to do, I have made most of the tools to remove and install clutch pack. The harder part will be if basket is bad. I never made or bought a socket for that

Matt
Derry N.H.

[Valker]

Can anyone recommend a reputable  place or person to have a clutch replaced? I'm in RI. The clutch sometimes makes a sound I have never heard before.

Describe the sound to us. It may be a normal noise.

[idaida98]

AIll is well in the clutch department I'm happy to say. I just could not figure it out so I just rode the bike up and down my street a couple of times,slowly shifted from 1st to 2nd and then I felt it again. The noise I heard  was coming from the pumpkin area.Now I could at least pinpoint the area.I just replaced the rear tire a month ago with all new o rings and washer and thought that I may have done something wrong.I put the bike on my jack and took the rear wheel off and that's when I saw that 2 of the nuts had backed off of the driven flange pins and were getting bound up.Now I'm shaking my head and blaming myself for never checking those for tightness in 95,000 miles and I have done all the tire changes on the bike.There was no real damage other than a few marks here and there,but I will be putting new nuts and permanent lock tight on the splined pins and nuts. At this point off course I am checking things out in my repair manual and I see note do not take the flange apart and yet the manual also gives the torque specs for the nuts. My big question for myself is why I never checked those nuts in the first place? Now I have a question for mother honda,why upon inspection did I not see any lock tight on the pins and nuts,was this not supposed to have been done at the factory? I'm happy the bike does not need a clutch but unhappy with what I found. I think I would have done or attempted to do the clutch if I still had a table lift but sold that an really couldn't see how it could have been done on the bike jack.

[idaida98]

Thanks for the replys.I guess I dogged a bullet could have been worst.

[Tony C.]

Thanks for the replys.I guess I dogged a bullet could have been worst.

Glad it all worked out Al!   

[idaida98]

  Thanks Tony now ro change the timing belts and rear rotor.Just waiting for parts.How's the wing? I know the answer to that already. Stay safe!

[Tony C.]

Yeah you do know the answer!