Road king clutch stuck
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Joined: Jan 2020
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From: Colorado
My Rd., King will start even if it’s in gear without holding the clutch because it seems like the clutch is just stuck engaged... I can switch gears without pulling on the clutch.. but the bike won’t drive it will just roll like as if I’m holding in the clutch.. The entire bike is responding as if I’m holding in the clutch when I’m not.. what could this be!!?. Please help!,,
Really easy and you lost a rivet out of the center spring plate on the oem clutch.
Pause the below video at 2:27 to see the spring plate of the OEM clutch, and even one of the rivets that have snapped off.
No, putting the broken rivet back in is not correct move, since it just gong to come loose again to kill the clutch basket.
So what happens, is the rivets break, find they way into the clutch basket as they work out of their channels, and take the clutch basket out in the end (after is has torn up some pressure plates along the way as it working it self outwards).
Hence, Time to not only pull your clutch to replace it, and get all the broken rivets out from the spring plate before they destroy the clutch basket, but to replace the clutch with one that has an "extra plate kit" to replace the Harley OEM center spring plate that breaks rivet over and over again.
Last edited by Dano523; Aug 2, 2020 at 08:57 PM.
