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Re: Bin that damper plate!

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Am I reading this wrong or is it being said to place a steel disc up against the alloy clutch hub spring carrier? If so this is asking for major trouble in that a few good slips and the surface reserved for a friction pad to lockup to will eventually be distroyed by slipage. metal on metal is not going to last. wouldn't be better to just install a friction plate between the b plate after deburing ? Or better yet two new steel discs with a friction plate between them in place of the B plate. Or re-rivet with steel? Please correct me if I'm reading this wrong. anim-cheers1
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The steel plate against the alloy hub cannot slip as it is held by the teeth on the hub. That is why I specified that position for it.
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Old Fogey wrote:The steel plate against the alloy hub cannot slip as it is held by the teeth on the hub. That is why I specified that position for it.
I got it now it's acting as a shim. I guess it's allright as long as when the clutch is pulled in, it doesn't disengage the inner hubs splines? A friction disc could never do that due to them being free floating and held by the clutch basket. If it did it would be horrific. In the middle sounds safer? anim-cheers1 :oldies
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Not quite following that. How could it 'disengage the hub splines'?

There needs to be two extra steel pates to make up for the width of the Plate 'B'; one goes in the middle of the pack where that came out of. The other goes in the position as above. Either that or the springs would need to be shimmed or the spring pillars would need to be shortened to make up the one extra plate difference, which will also increase the spring pressure a little, but you might run out of adjustment at the operating arm adjuster screw.
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I just want to say that i have a 75 and a 77 which both are set up with out
the B plate and they both work just fine i myself like the clutch action
better this way the clutch is more positive then before,i ride two up heavy
and pull a trailer alot and have had no problems with eaither one yet.
And as for the bottom plate it just sets there it dose not spin on the pressur plate
as most think it dose.
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Thanks for clearing that up for me :oldies I only read to buy one extra plain disk and could not figure how it would work with two friction disk mating in the middle and how if your clutch pack is say, normally 45mm thick and your removing 5mm and only adding back 2mm with one plain disk how it could possibly clamp/ lockup. I want to do this to my clutch this winter ( if I don't have to do it sooner) and was wondering if you think it would be ok to use the half of the buffer disk / B plate with cogs as the second plain disk I put against the spring carrier face and the new double sided one in the middle? For me $ is $ and I like to save where I can. anim-cheers1
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As for the disk up against the spring carriers face falling off I was thinking more of the guys who convert or want to convert their cable setups for hydrolics and are not carefull in making the push rod to the proper length with your fix in place. Am I wrong in saying that if the the push rod is to long that it can cause the 5mm engagement/travel of the splines of the disk carrier to disengage the spring carrier thus allowing room for the disk to drop and jam and or ruin the clutch; I guess what I need to know is: what limits the travel / seperation, (other than pushrod length),of the two carriers when you pull the clutch in and the 2 halves move on the 5mm engagement of the splines to release tension on clutch pack?
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That simply can't happen.The spring carrier will hit off the clutch basket before that could happen. I've got a carrier that shows slight marks from that happening, where I guess someone had over adjusted the clutch. Plus the carrier has teeth that correspond to the spaces between the teeth on the hub, so at the worst, the last plate would move onto the carrier.
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I posted this on another thread.....

I've had an issue with my 1100 since I bought it two years ago. Sometimes when I'm first starting out, I get a loud buzzing sound from the clutch, and it's a bit grabby. It's been gettin g louder and more frequent in the last month or so. I'm worried that I'm headed for a bad day in my future. This could perhaps be what I'm hearing/feeling?

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Sounds like it could very well be. Time to open er up and take a gander.
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Old Fogey wrote:Obviously, since the damper plate is in effect a plain plate, it has to be replaced in the middle of the pack with a proper plain plate.
I added the other plate at the spring carrier end to make up the difference in thickness. So you need two more plain plates, not one.
Overall the pack thickness increases by about 0.5mm but there is still plenty of free play left.
This is very important: The extra plate must be next to the Pressure Plate, not the Clutch Center. The grooves in the Clutch Center do not go all the way to the end so the plate will not make solid contact with it. I think this may have contributed to the failure of the wide tab friction plate and the damage to the plain plate that was between it and the Clutch Center.

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That's what I meant Bob, when I called it the spring carrier. Bad nomenclature on my part. :oops:
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Right. I interpreted your "spring carrier" to be the same as Honda calls "Pressure Plate" but I put mine next to the Clutch Center instead because I didn't think it would matter and when the friction plate failed it scored the friction area on the CC so I assumed that having a plain steel plate between the friction plate and the CC would provide a new surface for the plate to work against.

But it didn't.

I'll rephrase: It is VERY IMPORTANT to put the plain plate next to the spring carrier (Pressure Plate) and not next to the Clutch Center.
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So this extra B plate is from a donor bike? I can't seem to find them anywhere else. I'm going through my 1200 clutches soon, one 85, and one 87.
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Hey guys, I dont mean to beat this horse, I'm new to Wings as of last weekend. I have a 77 1000 and already have the engine out for some repairs. I am following along and making updates to this low mile bike while its apart. I just want to get this straight - I remove the dampner, install one B plate in its place and install the other one at the pressure plate end of the stack. I'm also making sure the two plates equal out to 0.05 mm. Sorry if this seem redundant -Rob
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