Clutching at straws and still slipping

[babble]

Hello all,

Looks like the diagnosis of a slipping clutch was a bum choice (not that there was much choice).

Complete new clutch carefully installed. Everything carefully put back together (even stripped and carefully rebuilt the slave cylinder once more to be totally sure)

End result - bike runs EXACTLY as before

Ill pull the slave cylinder off tommorow and run without it again (but this made no difference last time.)

Any suggestions of where I should look next?

Could it be a failed bevel drive? I was horrified to see very little, and metalic looking oil come out when i changed it. (It was last serviced by a dealer just before i bought it six months ago, and has never leaked a drop)
Slipping feels exactly like a clutch though......


£145, two days work and counting......... I said it was an unusual presentation!



Dave.

 

[Steptoe]

IF you've installed the clutch correctly.

It'll be your drive shaft thats slipping.

It'll be rotating in the rubber sleeve/insert section of the shaft

 

[Arbreacames]

Push the cover boots on the paralever off to the side and look at the drive shaft. I bet that the gearbox side of the axle turns while the final drive end of the drive shaft does not: your drive shaft is kaput. The rubber damper that connects the two ends of the shaft is is making a final statement about your riding style.

 

[babble]

Cool, thanks guys.

I was really starting to scratch my head.

(please note the "had the bike six months" statement - it was obviously the fooker who had the bike before me who 'done it' - honest)

Anyone got a shaft kicking about?


Dave.

 

[babble]

Hello,

At last, a defininitive answer - yes it was the driveshaft.

It fully gave way last night whilst trying to investigate it. By pulling back the gaiter at the gearbox end you can just see the shaft spinning away, witht the whell stopped.

New one ordered, - another £117 to the total bill .


Dave