Need your collective brain power and motorcycle zen wisdom, peeps Good thing this came up now and not while blasting through the back esses at SCR but I need some help with diagnosis/cure.....
I changed out my rearsets this morning, and this afternoon decided to take the bike around the block to make sure all was working well and my pedal heights were OK. Noticed she was kinda hard to shift 1-N-2-N-1 with the engine off & the clutch pulled in.
- Back the bike out of the garage in N, start her up, put her in 1st, and she's pulling hard while I still have the clutch lever pulled all the way in. As I release the clutch lever, there's no "bite" point, the gear is engaged throughout the lever travel. Huh what's going on here?
- Can't get her back into N while the engine's running, so I kill the engine. She goes into N with no problems. Roll her back into the garage.
- Check the adjustment on the shift pedal & gear shifter linkage. All is as it should be. Repeat above, no change.
- Check clutch lever adjustment at the lever and the adjusting nut, all looks good. Repeat the in gear/clutch in test, no change.
- Loosen & re-set clutch at both ends, no change. Try tightening the adjusting nut more than usual, get intermittent disengagement of gear, but not consistent. Re-set back to normal, back to square one.
- Up on the stand (rear wheel off the ground), while in any gear with clutch lever pulled in all the way, the rear wheel spins. No bite point, the gear is engaged no matter what the position of the lever. Put it in N, it stops. The gears are not disengaging when the clutch is applied. Can't shift from 1 to N while the wheel is on the ground & the engine running.
Thinking back over the last few weeks, I have had a lot of mis-shifts and false N, which I never used to get, and have had a lot of trouble finding N when at a standstill with the engine running....sometimes I've not been able to shift out of 1st into N at all under those conditions.
Is this likely to be the springs? Or the actual clutch plate? Any further diagnostics I can run prior to taking the clutch cover off? Fixes?
Thanks in advance...