Subject: RE: Balky Eldo clutch
Author: Karl Kologiski
Date: Oct 20, 2000, 7:37 PM
Post ID: 1703419765
I had something like this happen to my Eldo when I first bought it. I was
on my way home with it (about a 45 min ride on the interstate) and went to
down shift coming down the exit ramp and I could not pull the clutch in.
The owner told me he was having trouble with the clutch and took it to a
HD shop to get it worked on. When I went to look at the bike, I rode it
around for 10 min and did not notice anything. This was the guys first
Guzzi and I figured he was not used to them. Anyway after the bike cooled
down for a few hours the clutch worked fine but as soon as it got hot it
locked up again. After checking everything out on the outside and finding
nothing wrong I pulled the trans. Somehow the clutch push rod had welded
itself to the inner body (or top hat), The other end was boring a hole
through the clutch button that goes in the pressure plate ring gear. I
replaced the clutch rod assembly and had never had another problem. I
still can not figure out how they screwed up a clutch rod like that.
Jane & Karl Kologiski
Bird at the Wheel - Motorcycle Arts-
St. Petersburg, Florida
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-----Original Message-----
From: Bruce Giller [SMTP:bgil-@mitre.org]
Sent: Friday, October 20, 2000 9:24 AM
To: loopframe
Subject: Balky Eldo clutch
Lately I've been having a spot o' trouble with the clutch on the '72
Eldo. It shifts fine when cold and just warming up but if it has been
running for a while (about 1/2 hour and longer), it tends not to
disengage completely when at a stop. The engine rpms will slowly drop
until it stalls out and if I didn't have the brake on, it would tend to
lurch forward. And when taking off from a stop (if I hold the throttle
open just a bit), it tends to lunge forward which doesn't make for a
smooth takeoff.
I've heard of the clutch hub splines getting all beat up to the point
where the clutch doesn't disengage (or is that "doesn't engage") but I
thought that this happened all the time not just every now and then.
When I had the tranny out (along with the engine) about 2 years ago to
replace some very leaky tranny seals, the hub didn't look in all that
bad of shape, so I left it in.
Any ideas of what might be happening?
Bruce
'72 Eldo
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