Clutch Plate Kit?

[Robster]

So, I seem to have burnt out my clutch over the weekend on a series of unsuitable, steep and slippery lanes! D'oh!

I've seen Motorworks list a "Clutch Kit" for around £160, but that seems a bit steep based on my memories of having to replace the plates on my old Africa Twin... although that was probably 10 years ago.

Who actually makes the clutch plates, anyone done the job and can point me in the right direction please?! Just seems like 6 springs at £4ish a pop leave a big gap to £160+ for the Motorworks kit...


On the same note, I guess I should be doing the clutch cover whilst I'm at it – is there a definitive list of the parts needed for this job somewhere?

Also, I've read of a few people just having the bush replaced with a steel one – is this something you'd approach an engineering company to do or would a biggish local bike shop be able to do it?

 

[Losttheplot]

So, I seem to have burnt out my clutch over the weekend on a series of unsuitable, steep and slippery lanes! D'oh!

I've seen Motorworks list a "Clutch Kit" for around £160, but that seems a bit steep based on my memories of having to replace the plates on my old Africa Twin... although that was probably 10 years ago.

Who actually makes the clutch plates, anyone done the job and can point me in the right direction please?! Just seems like 6 springs at £4ish a pop leave a big gap to £160+ for the Motorworks kit...


On the same note, I guess I should be doing the clutch cover whilst I'm at it – is there a definitive list of the parts needed for this job somewhere?

Also, I've read of a few people just having the bush replaced with a steel one – is this something you'd approach an engineering company to do or would a biggish local bike shop be able to do it?

BMW were supplying a clutch cover with a steel bush already fitted for about £70 iirc. If you need to pay a decent machine shop to fit a bush into your existing case i'm not sure it would work out much cheaper?

 

[GFJ]

I had checked the price for the cover with rainbow recently, and I think they were quoting approx 120 for the cover alone. If anyone finds them cheaper can they post up here etc. Thanks.

're clutch, they are made up of a number of friction plates, steel plates and springs. Try wemoto as I think they used to sell the plates individually so may be cheaper just to get a set of friction plates if all else good.

 

[drimcong]

there should be 'english content' concerning the clutch cover somewhere on the 17 pages, contribution from Nobu or x-treiber; failing that on advrider.
Josey
clutch cover

 

[viv]

I put an ebc clutch plate pack on my XCountry about 40k miles ago. It has been much better than the two sets of bmw plates that have been on it. They did about 35k miles between them.