> Better stop using technical words like "vector", Victor.
So. Do you like movies about gladiators, Peter?
Twibil wrote:
>>
>>
>> One might expect that the wear spot would be at
>> a vector between the lever and cable end, since
>> force is being applied in two places.
> Better stop using technical words like "vector", Victor.
Get a clearance, Clarence. Roger, Oveur.
...OK, it's past; I'm better now....
Bob M.
>> On Jun 29, 1:27 pm, "tomor...@erols.com"
>>
>> > > 3. The clutch lever pivot bushing wears.
>> > How does a clutch cable adjustment make up for wear in the clutch
>> > lever pivot bushing ?
>>
>> It pulls the clutch lever towards the clutch lever perch.
>>
>> The amateur mechanic, unaware of the fact that the bolt hole in the
>> clutch lever pivot bushing (or the clutch lever itself, if there is no
>> bushing) wears to an oval shape, isn't trying to adjust the cable so
>> there's one millimeter of free play between the cable case and the
>> adjuster, he's just trying to take the excess free play out of the
>> clutch release system.
> So how does a clutch cable adjustment make up for wear in the clutch
> lever pivot bushing ?
In the same way that holding a little pressure on the lever takes up the
slack.
It doesn't "make up" for wear, but it does reduce the free play at the lever
when you shorten the clutch cable.
--
Beav
On Tue, 29 Jun 2010 13:20:37 -0400, "Datesfat Chicks"
>2006 Honda Shadow 600.
....
>Bonus Question: When it finally gets time for a new clutch, what is the
>first thing I'll notice as far as slippage? I'm assuming it will kind of
>creep up on you ... subtle changes over a period of time, then one day
>you'll realize you can't make highway speed or something.
>Thanks, Datesfat
I wore the clutch out on my old Suzuki TC200. The clutch consisted of
a bunch of clutch plates, a metal endplate, and 8 or 10 springs that
squeezed the assembly together. To take the clutch apart, all one had
to do was grab and stretch a spring with some needle nose pliers,
remove the cross-pin that the spring was pulling against, and repeat 8
or 10 times. Easy as pie.
My first government job was as a summer hire on Fort Wainwright,
Alaska when I was 18. Due to my ability to let my interviewer be a
jerk, I was assigned to work at the Service Club. I'd be inside the
club cleaning the chairs while looking at other summer hires swinging
weed whackers in the hot summer sun. $2.10/hr. One of the whackers
was a girl I used to watch play ping-pong during lunch break in high
school. I mention her because I ran into her about 9 years later at a
strip club. She looked OK naked, but her dance wasn't a turn on
especially.
Anyway, I had gotten curious about wheelies, so started practicing
doing a wheelie from a standing stop out in the Service Club parking
lot when I would get off work for the day. The bike would just get
vertical before the engine lugged to the point of dying if I let the
clutch fly with the engine at redline.
Post wheelie, I'd then ride out to the Richardson Highway, hang a
left, and head for home, accelerating as hard as the bike could, and
just letting the clutch fly when shifting. Then one day while letting
the clutch fly I noticed the clutch slipped for a few seconds before
bringing the RPMs down. The clutch only slipped on hard acceleration,
but after it did that maybe a dozen times I stopped trying to wheelie,
and eased up on hard shifting. Once the clutch slowed the engine and
sliding friction became static friction, the clutch would hold.
Robert
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