How do you trust a clutch cable?
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Be careful with those ezpull things. I put one on the sportster, which installed on the throw out bearing end, and it burned up a clutch pack. There is not free lunch. They make the clutch pull easier because they don't move the clutch disengagement as much for a given lever pull.
Still works just fine.
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OK Tups. I bought one of those on fleabay for the sportster. Dr.L's clutch is a bit harder to pull, which is why we tried the EZ-Clutch thing on it. While the extended arm idea may work on a big twin, it don't work on a sportster.
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The extended arm works fine on later big twins, we had one installed on our Dyna TC88, but on my Evo it wasn't very satisfactory. I'm not sure where the switch-over of clutch design occurs.
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On mine it wasn't a longer arm but a shallower angle on the ramps the ball bearings ride on.
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THC, they all suffer a similar problem, which is reduced lift along the clutch push-rod. The longer arm doesn't rotate the cam plate as much, hence reduces clutch lift, the shallower ramp angle does the same.
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I would think that if any of that was a problem I would have experienced it by now.
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Early Evos like my '90 certainly have a problem with a narrow 'sweet spot', when the clutch works just right. Perhaps later model years are better.
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Dirt don't hurt
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From: Haslet Texas
Never had a problem setting mine.