Subject: RE: Clutch problems
Author: Ray Hale
Date: Jun 14, 2004, 11:14 AM
Post ID: 1716970615
This is a G5 story but might relate. I was heading to Guzzi on the Blue
Ridge, 2-up, overloaded. At what I thought were odd intervals, the
clutch would simply disappear. I pulled into John Hoffman's place near
Athens and after scratching heads for a bit, he saw it. The u-joint boot
clamp was pushing the cable underneath and disconnecting the clutch. He
rolled the clamp around, gave me a serious lecture about the load and
off we went towards Cruso. No more clutch troubles.
However, when we arrived at the campground, having run through a
terrible rain and lightning storm, the bridge was washed away and
campground under water. Plan B for sure.
Any chance your problem is similar? If not overloaded, maybe worn shocks
or pivot bearings and too much swingarm movement?
Ray
PS, just returned from a visit to Indy. Wish I'd contacted you Indy guys
on the list. Sounds like some loop-fun there abouts. I think I went to
the Mayberry city on the way to take photos of the covered bridges.
lio-@aol.com wrote:
Beautiful day on Long Island. Perfect for a ride along the north shore. My 73 Eldo was runing just fine when coming into Huntington I grabbed for the clutch and there was nothing there. I of course stalled out. I pushed off to the side of the road and thought it was a broken cable. No such luck. The cable was fine and the clutch lever on the tranny moved in and out, but there was no resistance on the clutch. After much looking around for a solution I got it into neutral and pushed off kicking it into 1st. This way I was able to limp around shifting up and down with out benefit of a clutch and make my way to a friends house. After a nice cold one I went to put the goose in his garage and lo and behold the clutch was working again. Has anyone in the group had any experiences like this? Any Ideas on what might have gone wrong? Can I trust the old gal to be ok? Do I have to pull the tranny? I've never done that before. Any insight would be appreciated! Vince in NY |