Subject: RE: clutch and tranny followup
Author: Ian Adkins
Date: Jul 29, 2004, 5:22 AM
Post ID: 1717247531
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Patrick,
Good advice. I have a question for y'all out there. When sitting at a light
is it better to put the bike in neutral or is it ok to idle the few minutes
with the clutch in?
As a devil's advocate...sure is a fair bit of load on a small part but with
Loops out there with 100k+ miles on them I wonder how many had failures in
the throw out bearing as compared to...say...the cardan joint?
All interesting discussion...Ian
-----Original Message-----
From: Patrick Hayes [mailto:peha-@comcast.net]
Sent: Monday, July 26, 2004 5:32 PM
To: Loopfram-@topica.com
Subject: Re: clutch and tranny followup
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Jason: DO NOT take "every bit of slack" out of the clutch cable. Its a
recipe for disaster. Just inside the rear cover of the transmission is a
radial throwout bearing. It is designed for intermittent or occasional use.
It is NOT designed to withstand constant loads. If you take up all of the
cable slack, this bearing gets permanently loaded and it will fail. In the
process, it will use the long throwout rod as a dull drill and drill a hole
directly through your clutch. Lots of alternate damage occurs.
Find someway to solve the problem with your clutch and transmission and
cable. But, do not solve it by taking away a necessary element of freeplay.
Patrick Hayes
Fremont CA
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class=990411212-29072004>Patrick,</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT color=#0000ff face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=990411212-29072004>Good
advice. I have a question for y'all out there. When sitting at a light is it
better to put the bike in neutral or is it ok to idle the few minutes with the
clutch in? </SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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class=990411212-29072004></SPAN></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#0000ff face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=990411212-29072004>As a
devil's advocate...sure is a fair bit of load on a small part but with Loops out
there with 100k+ miles on them I wonder how many had failures in the throw out
bearing as compared to...say...the cardan joint?</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#0000ff face=Arial size=2><SPAN
class=990411212-29072004></SPAN></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#0000ff face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=990411212-29072004>All
interesting discussion...Ian</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<P>Jason: DO NOT take "every bit of slack" out of the clutch
cable. Its a recipe for disaster. Just inside the rear cover of
the transmission is a radial throwout bearing. It is designed for
intermittent or occasional use. It is NOT designed to withstand constant
loads. If you take up all of the cable slack, this bearing gets
permanently loaded and it will fail. In the process, it will use the
long throwout rod as a dull drill and drill a hole directly through your
clutch. Lots of alternate damage occurs.</P>
<P>Find someway to solve the problem with your clutch and transmission and
cable. But, do not solve it by taking away a necessary element of
freeplay.</P>
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<P>Patrick Hayes</P>
<P>Fremont CA<BR></P><PRE>--^^---------------------------------------------------------------</PRE></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>
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