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by **mick_dundee** » Mon Jun 05, 2006 12:31 pm

And the bread basket (wallet) is empty, but that's beside the point.. pulled it apart 2 weeks ago changed to a thicker oil but is still there, all plates intact but springs in the pressure plate are loose, question is should I jusut replace the springs or go the whole hog, plates etc?

Bike has done 99k k's.

by **mike-s** » Mon Jun 05, 2006 12:38 pm

I would have guessed that if the basket doesnt have any mounting issues it'd be the springs that have weakened/compressed with age.

how olds the bike again?

by **mick_dundee** » Mon Jun 05, 2006 1:03 pm

10 years old so expect has done some work over the years.

by **javaman** » Mon Jun 05, 2006 1:15 pm

I thought you have just changed the clutch plates? Any possibility they were not done properly ?

It's quite hard to think those springs wearing off. My bike is 92,000 and counting and has not had any issues with clutch so far.

by **mick_dundee** » Mon Jun 05, 2006 1:44 pm

Andy, took a look in case some plates were broken but not, definately some loose springs though.

by **MickLC** » Mon Jun 05, 2006 2:19 pm

Have you pulled the springs out and measured them? Are they within specs?

by **mick_dundee** » Mon Jun 05, 2006 2:25 pm

Mike, didn't even know there were specs for them... so the answer is no on both.

by **mike-s** » Mon Jun 05, 2006 2:52 pm

uhm, "no & dont know"

by **mick_dundee** » Mon Jun 05, 2006 3:11 pm

Yeah that too..

by **mick_dundee** » Fri Jul 14, 2006 10:35 am

Uodate: Took bike yesterday to Race Replica (KSRC Sponsor) with the full intention of getting this fixed once and for all and was advised "don't worry about it". Bike can do another 100,000 with the rattle so looks like I live with a bike that sounds like a kombie...

by **FrogZ** » Fri Jul 14, 2006 11:17 am

Go and stand beside an old BolDor mate and you wont feel anywhere near as bad.
Those things death rattled their heads off but never seemed to get any
worse.
Even when you drilled out all the studs from the basket to the drive and put new tight ones in, it would be back in a month !!!

IF it is an older bike DONT run new 20/50 synthetics, put an old straight 50 in it like a Harley or old Triumph uses and it will love you for ever.

OOPS forgot not all you guys live in the sunny north

so you may want to run multis in there, but not the 10w stuff some shops seem to use lately.

by **z900/zx9** » Sat Jul 15, 2006 10:29 am

Mick are you trying to do a Ducati impersonation or something???

Mal said he thought all things that old would have a rattle in their crutch basket

K

by **mick_dundee** » Sat Jul 15, 2006 12:37 pm

My crutch basket doesn't get enough work is the problem

by **mrmina** » Sat Jul 15, 2006 2:14 pm

mick_dundee wrote:My crutch basket doesn't get enough work is the problem

way too much info mate.

by **Buck** » Sat Jul 15, 2006 8:50 pm

I had a cb750F that had a shocker, was real scary noise too. I got a replacement off a low km wreck and didnt really change the situation.
Gave up and took it to Beaumonts in Brissy and got told same thing Mick and they were right never any performance issue, had it for a couple of years. Never heard of it with kwaks though.
Steal an Identify buy a new bike.

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