Well winter sucks, yesterday was a nice sunny day and I was driving a truck for most of the day, so today I was hoping for another fine day, but even though God loves me, obviously he'd taken the day off today, as it was cold, wet and miserable. Because of this, and my natural aversion to any kind of physical effort, I stayed inside for as long as I could, but eventually drifted out to the garage and started my lockup clutch conversion.
The clutch kit from Cycle X is quite comprehensive and includes all the gubbins required, right down to the OEM Honda dowels and 2 clutch cover gaskets. No fitting instructions though, but then again, it's so simple it wasn't hard for me to work out how it all went together. First thing to do was disengage the clutch cable, and remove the clutch cover.
The pressure plate comes off next, and the little metal bobbin that is pressed into the centre bearing needs to be carefully tapped out, and replaced with the longer Cycle X item.
Then I had to reassemble the pressure plate with the lock up plate attached, using longer (45mm) cap head screws and washers.
Once that was tightened down, it was just a case of installing the spacer plate.
Then I re-installed the clutch cover with the longer screws provided in the kit, re-routed the cable and hooked it all up, and installed the kick starter shaft plug.
I used some gasket sealant to seal the plug, and while there's no real pressure there, I think I'll machine up some sort of retainer to hold the plug in, just for my own piece of mind. I then hooked everything else up, and fired it up. I'm happy to say that there were no funny noises, no obvious oil leaks, and the clutch worked fine!
I think it looks kinda cool too............
It was too late and too cold to go for a ride, but I did attempt one quick burnout, just to make sure the clutch wasn't slipping, but had to abandon the attempt when the front wheel came up, but it was good to know that the clutch wasn't slipping.....
I love my bike!
