| Author | Message | ||
     Acav80 |
Sorry for such a long explanation... I recently replaced the clutch plates in my 2006 Uly with an EnergyOne kit designed for late model buells. The kit consists of friction plates and steel plates in a pre-measured stack height and a new diaphram spring. I have been riding the bike since replacing the clutch and it functions properly, but I have now noticed that as I slow there is a single, small rub that I can feel in my footpegs as I am slowing around 5 mph. I am wondering if it's from the clutch. Here's where I'm not sure about the new kit... The first parts in the "stack" of my stock buell clutch are a spring seat (a thin flat ring that sits in a shallow recess against the back wall of the clutch hub), a "narrow" friction plate (like the rest but with a larger inside diameter), and a diaphram spring/ring that fits inside the inner diameter of the "narrow" plate. The idea is clearly that the spring ring sits against the spring seat and the surface area of the first full-size clutch plate is half on the "narrow" plate and half on the spring ring. The EnergyOne kit has all plates of equal inside/outside diameter. I have talked to the guy at energy one a couple of times and he said I should take out all the parts inside the clutch and put in the whole EnergyOne kit, thereby replacing the "narrow" plate with a full size plate. I did this, but the spring seat would not pop out of its recess on the back wall of the hub. I decided to leave it in place because I was concerned about that first plate being pressed at an angle into the empty recess if the spring seat were removed. I am just worried about the friction plate wearing against spring seat as it is assembled currently. Could this lead ot a failure? Has anyone replaced their stock clutch with a kit that doesn't use the "narrow" plate, and if so, did you leave the spring seat in place against the back wall of the hub? | ||
| Arcticktm |
Link to my original BB&D post on my clutch failure Sept 2007: http://www.badweatherbikers.com/buell/messages/142838/314494.html Link to post I just entered that summarizes my experience under a new KV topic: http://www.badweatherbikers.com/buell/messages/3842/456488.html?1241113243 I hope I can save you some time with the research I did to fix my problem. Energy One let me down on this one... (Message edited by arcticktm on April 30, 2009) | ||
| Acav80 |
I do wish you had posted up about the trouble with the EnergyOne kit...your original thread was what led me to buy a kit from them. I haven't noticed a problem with overly-grabby engagement...yet. Fingers crossed there. Did you leave the spring seat in place on the back wall of your hub when you took out the narrow plate and the spring ring? | ||
| Acav80 |
Question I just thought of...do you remember the kit # you got? Did I see somewhere that it was BTX-11? When I ordered from EnergyOne they told me the correct kit for my bike was not listed on their website, the kit # I got is BXB-912. Maybe it's been redesigned. |
