Clutch question---

Picked my American import R100GS up from the docks yesterday. Found her laid forlorn on her side strapped down to a custom built pallet complete with eyebolts---stupid yanks hadn't put the tie-downs on proper and she had slid through them over onto the rocker cover---slight cosmetic damage but nuthin serious

Anyway clutches---my local airhead guru has long-since retired from bike mechanicking and taken up farming so HELP please

26239 miles on the clock---she has loads of free play at the clutch lever which can't be adjusted out as adjuster is fully out---clutch doesn't clear properly with lever back to the bars---doubt if it's simply a stretched cable so where do I look next or are 'they all like that'?

givit

Have a look at the operating arm at the back of the gearbox. There is another adjuster at that end.

there's an adjuster on the operating arm at the back of the gearbox.

arm should be set at 201mm +1 distance from the cable stop casting on case.


edit: found a diagram now

And Clean the carb float housing while you have the instructions to hand

'clean 'er up'

Yessir Mr Steptoe---I'll go do that right now

Couldn't resist throwin a leg over her though and with the missus out the way I took her across the river into the field opposite my cottage and gave her a short blat amongst the thistles and cowshit---should have dunnit before I washed her---not after
not exactly North America where I was supposed to be riding her but it's whetted my appetite for airheads---what a motor---smooth as silk all the way from the bottom and with the single seat she's just like sitting in an armchair---comfy up on the pegs too---can't wait to get her through all the parafenalia that's needed before she goes on the road legal like.

Found enough adjustment in the cable to let the clutch clear but I will check out the other adjuster on the mechanism---better to take up the free play there methinks and save the cable adjustment for on the road.

Thanks for the info guys---that was really prompt---dare I ask if all the starter motors make a noise like a moose fartin---especially if she doesn't fire first time?

givit

givitsum said:

Thanks for the info guys---that was really prompt---dare I ask if all the starter motors make a noise like a moose fartin---especially if she doesn't fire first time?

givit

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more like a camel choking. or an albino cat trying to dislodge a fur ball, or an Emperor penquin regurgiating to feed its chick, or

airhead starter/moose fartin?

nud1e said:

more like a camel choking. or an albino cat trying to dislodge a fur ball, or an Emperor penquin regurgiating to feed its chick, or

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that's alright then, thought maybe I was disturbing sum American wildlife under the tank every time I pressed the button

cheers all

givit