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Feedback from the clutch

  • Fr3d
    Fr3d
    13 years ago

    Hope someone out there can help with this.  When in lower gears and with some load up on the motor, if i close the throttle, I get kick back in the clutch handle.  I dont get it crusing in say 5 or 6th and close the throttle, just in the lower gears when riding with some poke.  Its a solid kick and not anything Ive experienced before on this and other harleys.

    I had a dealer pull the primary off and dis and re-assemble the compensator and clutch shell a while back (1500klms) but its started up again.

    Any ideas will be greatly appreciated.

  • AJ56
    AJ56
    13 years ago
    I read this last night and shit a curly one. The possibilities I think are, Primary chain slap, depending on model if the chain is to slack it could give a bit of a kick at lower gears??? improperly adjusted clutch. But then in theory it should do it in all gears...

    Misaligned Compensator, clutch basket

    Is there any grinding noise coming from the primary side at the front at Idle? the Comp nut may be loose. That's an easy fix. If they have taken the primary apart in the past and that sort of fixed the issue then it must be something in the drive area. Hopefully somebody has come across this before or has a better idea.