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On my 2000 ST2, I had the good ole fashion squawking clutch (As you slipped the clutch from a start, it sounded like a chair being dragged across a hardwood floor). I read up on the lithium grease trick last summer and figured I would give it a try. For a while it worked great. No more squawking. Then at the beginning of this year, the clutch started sticking on me. I would pull in the clutch and then half a second later the disks would finally separate and disconnect the rear wheel from the transmission. I pulled the clutch apart and several plates were sticking together (one clump of four plates came out of the basket together and took some effort to separate). With a liberal dose of brake cleaner on all the disks, I cleaned it up as best I could and put it back together. The bike ran good again and I only had the slightest hint of a squawk.
The the squawking got louder...
... and more present...
... and then it was EVERY time that I started from a stop and every time that I rode the clutch.
... and then it started slipping.
SO, I pulled the clutch back apart today. All the fiber disks look to be in good shape (My digital calipers have dead batteries so I haven't been able to measure them yet), but it is the metal disks that I am concerned about. They are very dark and very shiny. Almost mirror smooth. Have I fried these disks, or can they be glaze busted? Or do they need to be?
Pics to come...
The the squawking got louder...
... and more present...
... and then it was EVERY time that I started from a stop and every time that I rode the clutch.
... and then it started slipping.
SO, I pulled the clutch back apart today. All the fiber disks look to be in good shape (My digital calipers have dead batteries so I haven't been able to measure them yet), but it is the metal disks that I am concerned about. They are very dark and very shiny. Almost mirror smooth. Have I fried these disks, or can they be glaze busted? Or do they need to be?
Pics to come...