1 Guess what I'm doin? Thu Mar 25, 2010 5:52 pm
slowride
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As most of you know, I inherited this great machine from a dear family member that is no longer able to ride. It hadn't run in close to a year due to a fuel leak in the tank and a minor spill that tore up the left fairing a bit. I patched up the fairing and fixed the fuel leak, purchased a new battery, had it insured, tagged and inspected and wallah...it's ridable. I even took the motorcycle riders course here in Texas (required by law to obtain a motorcycle license) and obtained my license to ride.
When I left for "Ride the Rio" it was the first time I've had the bike on the highway....first time I took it over 60 mph. Anyway, the ride was great and we made it back in one piece but there were a couple of issues that I wanted to address. Sometimes it shifts rough, other times perfectly smooth. Bobby never could tell me if it had a spline lube so I figured I'd tear it down to tackle this issue and get it out of the way. There is also an oil leak somewhere that I wanted to address and figured I'd tear it down to find it.
So...here she is! Nothing like a good 'ol sawhorse to hold up your K-bike. Notice the yellow 2X4 holder...There's one on each side to keep the back of the bike from sliding side to side.
Slowride
Deemed the secondary housing by the Clymers (I call it the clutch housing). Notice the oil settled in the bottom? Turns out the main seal is leaking. Pretty bad place for oil to get slung around considering it's a dry clutch. I also took the clutch apart and also turns out the friction plate has gone as far as I want it to go. It's about 1 mm from hitting the metal grommets that hold the friction material to the base of the plate.
It looks like a mess but I have everything organized and what you don't see are the fifteen plastic sandwich bags full of nuts and bolts and labeled with a black sharpie. All in all I had to order about $250.00 worth of parts the most expensive being the friction plate at around $150.00. New seals for the starter, new clutch boot, main seal, O-rings, exhaust seals, hondamolly60, compression ring and new clutch nut. I ordered all of these parts minus the hondamolly60 from bikebandit.com. They have great schematics with all of the parts listed and priced. I also ordered a clutch alignment tool from rbracing.com which seems to be the only place I can find that has one. Ironically, the final drive splines, transmission and clutch splines look great and even still have lube on them but of course, I'm gonna hook 'em up again. For now, I'm just waiting on parts!
When I left for "Ride the Rio" it was the first time I've had the bike on the highway....first time I took it over 60 mph. Anyway, the ride was great and we made it back in one piece but there were a couple of issues that I wanted to address. Sometimes it shifts rough, other times perfectly smooth. Bobby never could tell me if it had a spline lube so I figured I'd tear it down to tackle this issue and get it out of the way. There is also an oil leak somewhere that I wanted to address and figured I'd tear it down to find it.
So...here she is! Nothing like a good 'ol sawhorse to hold up your K-bike. Notice the yellow 2X4 holder...There's one on each side to keep the back of the bike from sliding side to side.
Slowride
Deemed the secondary housing by the Clymers (I call it the clutch housing). Notice the oil settled in the bottom? Turns out the main seal is leaking. Pretty bad place for oil to get slung around considering it's a dry clutch. I also took the clutch apart and also turns out the friction plate has gone as far as I want it to go. It's about 1 mm from hitting the metal grommets that hold the friction material to the base of the plate.
It looks like a mess but I have everything organized and what you don't see are the fifteen plastic sandwich bags full of nuts and bolts and labeled with a black sharpie. All in all I had to order about $250.00 worth of parts the most expensive being the friction plate at around $150.00. New seals for the starter, new clutch boot, main seal, O-rings, exhaust seals, hondamolly60, compression ring and new clutch nut. I ordered all of these parts minus the hondamolly60 from bikebandit.com. They have great schematics with all of the parts listed and priced. I also ordered a clutch alignment tool from rbracing.com which seems to be the only place I can find that has one. Ironically, the final drive splines, transmission and clutch splines look great and even still have lube on them but of course, I'm gonna hook 'em up again. For now, I'm just waiting on parts!