Neutral to first gear. Click or Clunk.
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Neutral to first gear. Click or Clunk.
Usually hitting first gear gives the familiar "clunk". Not as loud as days of yore but still a clunk.
Sometimes, like once out of fifty, there is just a click, so quiet I think it is not in gear. but it is.
I cannot find any consistent situation where it always happens.
2018 Road King. But I remember this happening on test rides of a half dozen M8 bikes.
I am not worried at all, just curious. Why usually clunk but sometimes click?
Sometimes, like once out of fifty, there is just a click, so quiet I think it is not in gear. but it is.
I cannot find any consistent situation where it always happens.
2018 Road King. But I remember this happening on test rides of a half dozen M8 bikes.
I am not worried at all, just curious. Why usually clunk but sometimes click?
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Foley Fats (06-26-2018)
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Pull in the clutch lever while in netural and start it. With clutch still held in, warm it about a minute bipping the throttle till idle drops back. Using butt , rock the bike back.
This action frees the oil stuck drive and driven clutch plates. They are really snug on their splines and do not move very well.
Doing this most of the time will eliminate clunk.
In fact, if you do it too well, sometimes it will not shift if the transmission drive dogs are not in alignment.
Then you need to let out clutch a little to start spin, pull it back in and hit the shifter again.
Clunk hurts nothing. Shifting too slow does.
This action frees the oil stuck drive and driven clutch plates. They are really snug on their splines and do not move very well.
Doing this most of the time will eliminate clunk.
In fact, if you do it too well, sometimes it will not shift if the transmission drive dogs are not in alignment.
Then you need to let out clutch a little to start spin, pull it back in and hit the shifter again.
Clunk hurts nothing. Shifting too slow does.
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