doing burnouts everytime I start off
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From: Glendora, Southern Calif
doing burnouts everytime I start off
So I swapped my spring plates in the clutch for steel plates after the rivets started popping up and fcking up my clutch.
I realized everytime I rev to start rolling from stop, I hear a 1/2 second screech of wheels and off I go. Don't feel a skidding sensation though.
It was confirmed riding around the porch of a buddy's place today. Left tiny burnout marks around the concrete.
Lol, it must be the lack of springs in the plates that used t cushion the clutch release causing the clutch to engage immediately. hopefully my rear wheel doesn't go bare in a week!
I realized everytime I rev to start rolling from stop, I hear a 1/2 second screech of wheels and off I go. Don't feel a skidding sensation though.
It was confirmed riding around the porch of a buddy's place today. Left tiny burnout marks around the concrete.
Lol, it must be the lack of springs in the plates that used t cushion the clutch release causing the clutch to engage immediately. hopefully my rear wheel doesn't go bare in a week!
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Charley is right, but also I think it has to do with out you are taking off. I have the SE clutch in my bike and it does not have the spring plate and yes it hits harder and I can burn out everytime if I want, but I also know how to take off hard and never spin the tire.
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Joined: Mar 2010
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From: Martinez, California
Sportster clutch consists of 8 friction plates, 6 steel plates and one plate that is called a "spring plate", which is two plates riveted together with brass rivets that have spring leaves pushing outwards.
This plate is not the main clutch spring, but is there right in the center of the clutch stack to take up some slack between the plates when the clutch is disengaged. Apparently, the brass rivets eventually fail and the two spring plates come apart and jam the clutch making it difficult to disengage. Also, they can do some damage to the clutch shell and neighboring friction disks.
I understand that its a common failure, and a bone of contention between actual riders and the doofus engineers that created this mess.
This plate is not the main clutch spring, but is there right in the center of the clutch stack to take up some slack between the plates when the clutch is disengaged. Apparently, the brass rivets eventually fail and the two spring plates come apart and jam the clutch making it difficult to disengage. Also, they can do some damage to the clutch shell and neighboring friction disks.
I understand that its a common failure, and a bone of contention between actual riders and the doofus engineers that created this mess.
