Subject: RE: Understanding a 4-Speed Trans
Author: Fred Sahms
Date: Oct 24, 2002, 1:50 PM
Post ID: 1711266430
My SP1000 used to do the same thing, drop a little idle speed when the
clutch was pulled in. It went away when I replaced the clutch with the
newer deep spline type. I chalked it up to the friction plates not
freeing entirely from the notched input hub and dragging a little on the
intermediate plate or flywheel or pressure plate.
Keith Ruff wrote:
Also, I am trying to understand why my idle drops when I pull in the
clutch. Andy said it still is doing this "slightly". I'll have to
compare it to the way it was before. I was hoping it would go away as
he had found the clutch hub to be dirty with some slight surface rust.
Andy buffed the hub with a wheel and lubed it. What else can be causing
RPM's to drop when pulling the clutch? I wonder if something was not
installed properly by the Guzzi dealer way back when. I do have the
newer style needle throwout bearing, just wonder if perhaps something is
missing to not get a good enough disengagement of the clutch and somehow
it is hanging up when warm.
Keith Ruff
71 Police Ambassador - NJ
73 Eldo (motor in the frame!)
78 T3/949