Heritage "Clunks" When shift and...
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From: Escondido, CA
A properly adjusted clutch and quality oils in the primary and tranny will minimize the clunck a lot. Sometimes when I shift it will do it so softly that I'll wonder if it actually shifted. I've never had a problem shifting to neutral. On the 07 the tranny is built to shift into neutral from first or second. On the 99 EVO it was built to shift into neutral only from first. And did it a lot easier if it was revved a bit. The vibrations helped it shift.
The clunck doesn't need to be as loud and hard as some have it.
The clunck doesn't need to be as loud and hard as some have it.
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A properly adjusted clutch and quality oils in the primary and tranny will minimize the clunck a lot. Sometimes when I shift it will do it so softly that I'll wonder if it actually shifted. I've never had a problem shifting to neutral. On the 07 the tranny is built to shift into neutral from first or second. On the 99 EVO it was built to shift into neutral only from first. And did it a lot easier if it was revved a bit. The vibrations helped it shift.
The clunck doesn't need to be as loud and hard as some have it.
The clunck doesn't need to be as loud and hard as some have it.
Clutch adjustment, quality primary fluid, quantity of primary fluid and primary chain adjustment all play a role in that. Have all those things right and it will shift real nice for you.
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From: Lake of the Ozarks, Missouri
Mine clunks as well, doesn't bother me a bit. Oh, and my sportster had the same clunk. It's normal.
Yeah, sometimes I find it a little hard to find neutral. I just come up from first real slow and it will usually go right in.
Yeah, sometimes I find it a little hard to find neutral. I just come up from first real slow and it will usually go right in.
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However, simply being low on primary fluid can do that (as could being over filled). Worth checking, for sure. Clutch adjustment at the clutchpack is worth doing now and then, too.
If you spend a lot of time on a bike, might as well have everything work the best it can.
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I don't know if you have fat grips or not, but I see some fringe things hanging off your levers. Try taking them off. Fat grips and anything on your levers reduces your clutch pull, so your clutch may not be fully disengaged, even with free play adjusted. Mine clunks, but not so hard that I ever gave it a second thought, and I have no problem hitting neutral at all.
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From: Minnesota
LOL , I love this sporties not being a harley thing , all you ol guys buy the biggest fattest bike you can get a loan for , and to hide your inevitable disapiontment , you start dissing the only harley you could actually afford in the first place , all sportie owners know there the best and most original bike harley ever made , and still make ,thats why we buy them .....after doing some reasurch i found out that the badley designed overweight slow models(thats all of em, apart from the sportsters)were very early jap designes , but were so bad , they decided it would be stupid to make them , they through the blueprints out of a plane over milwalkee many years ago ,knowing harley would use them , they did this with the intention that a badley made flawed motorcycle design could some day help in bringing down the U.S econemy, there cleverer than women those little buggers , they bide there time and always get what they intended to get in the end , you guys just aint clever enough to see it 