I have a question about this. Is this something that should/could be replaced at xxx.xxx miles as part of preventive maintenace? I ride alot as most of you all know like alot of other members here and would hate to be down for this spring. So lets say I have 50,000 mile on my scoot, should I be looking at replacing this as part of preventive maintence? or wait for it to start acting up and then replace it?
Cheers
Ron
IIRC the actual factory recall came out in 98', but i can't say for sure cause i can't get to GBYII's old webstuff, he had the report there.
I would suggest replacing them on any pre 98 bike a.s.a.p., and not wait till the crap out....
reason:
You will likely TRY to ride it and eek out a few more miles even knowing it crapped out, and doing so may place you in a situation where you really need the clutch working perfectly (Like stuck in traffic jam, or worse yet, climbing a mountain somewheres...) Abusing the clutch at that point simply ruins the friction plates, and will rapidly warp and blue up the steeel ones in short order...
Friction plates run about $115 at Murphs for EBC, and factory ones are almost as much, and if you hose up the steel ones, you will be screwed because you have to match stack height very critically, so you would need to Mic all of them, and replace them based on that, to get correct stack...that's a p.i.t.a., and if you don't do that, slipper clutch and star spring won't work correctly, an you will hose the whole thing up again.
best to replace when in doubt...
Oh, and the newer bikes are not without failures there either, and I have word even the dual spring replacements are not
totally infallable, but they last a lot longer....
just make sure what ever you do, replace the nut with the new version nut, the old p/n nuts are still floating around, and will not work with the new dual spring system.
