Bending Clutch Lever?
Bending Clutch Lever?
So I took my 07 FXSTC in to HD because the clutch linkage was striking the top of the inner primary cover (a Kuryakyn piece). I have had this bike for just under a year, and this just started. (They wanted to grind a piece out of the inner primary cover!) HD swore the Kuryakyn piece was the problem. HD even ordered a new inner primary cover from Kury because they attempted to put it on a press and cracked it! Eventually a mechanic ended up bending the clutch linkage so it wouldn't hit. Is this really the solution, or a band-aid fix to a larger problem? Just curious if anyone had seen this before. Thanks in advance.
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I would think this . . .
Because the Kury cover is a "cover" it would naturally be larger all around than the primary itself. So the fact that your linkage was hitting doesnt really surprise me.
My buddy with a street bob got a set of Kury forward controls that came with a new linkage. The linkage has 2 bends in it that elevate it up and away from the primary. After the dealer installed his controls, the linkage was flopping over, vibrating on the primary and was starting to mar the primary. I just rotated the linkage upright and adjusted the linkage eyelets, tightened em down till it was vertical and wouldn't fall over far enough to hit.
Long story short, I think that modifying the linkage would be an acceptable way to get away from it hitting. If your worried about the bend he put in it shortening the overall length of the linkage (doesnt look like he bent it much) then I would look at Kury to get one of those pre bent linkages that will dodge your cover.
Hope this helps ease your mind
Because the Kury cover is a "cover" it would naturally be larger all around than the primary itself. So the fact that your linkage was hitting doesnt really surprise me.
My buddy with a street bob got a set of Kury forward controls that came with a new linkage. The linkage has 2 bends in it that elevate it up and away from the primary. After the dealer installed his controls, the linkage was flopping over, vibrating on the primary and was starting to mar the primary. I just rotated the linkage upright and adjusted the linkage eyelets, tightened em down till it was vertical and wouldn't fall over far enough to hit.
Long story short, I think that modifying the linkage would be an acceptable way to get away from it hitting. If your worried about the bend he put in it shortening the overall length of the linkage (doesnt look like he bent it much) then I would look at Kury to get one of those pre bent linkages that will dodge your cover.
Hope this helps ease your mind
I'm happy it works now. And yes, the bend was small. I don't understand why Kury would make a cover if there wasn't enough clearance. The part that scares me is simply that it didn't used to hit the primary cover, then one day started hitting. I thought something may have slipped. My bike has the least clearance I have ever seen between a linkage and the primary.
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Just for grins measure the length of your shifter rod. Mine measures 12 1/8" between the bolts, center to center. Anything much shorter or longer than that probably means that someone replaced the rod with the wrong length part (like a touring bikes rod). Either condition would move the rod lower and closer to the cover.
The bend they put in is going to make the rod a tad shorter, but its not going to hurt anything other than its looks. It will also move the shifter peg up a little if it wasn't readjusted afterwards.
Kury covers are just that, covers and like Twisted 125 said it will make the inner primary larger putting it closer to the rod. So my guess would be that somehow it moved on you and I would start by trying to find out how and why it dd so.
Personally I'm not a fan of 'covers' per say, and would much prefer to replace a part than cover it up. Covering things just hides the parts and gives dirt road salts and any other kinds of crap a place to hide to work its evil undetected, often until its too late to fix.
I had read in another forum that the transmission arm (where that aft bolt of the shift linkage connects) sits on a bolt that has splines and after time, those splines wear, and the transmission arm could slip. I had thought that may have been the problem. If it were to shift, then the clearance would decrease.
Again, thank you guys. I appreciate your input!
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