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clutch 911

Discussion in 'XJ Technical Chat' started by chadly89, Jan 21, 2009.

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    i need some help here on putting my clutch back together, i read on another forum that you can take the clutch out and clean up the friction disks , and since my bike was sitting for about 5 years before i rebuilt it i thought it would be a good idea to take the clutch apart and clean it up on the next oil change, so i took it apart and the friction disks were all gunked up and glassed over with old oil so i took some 400 grit sand paper to them and cleaned them all up, and i looked at putting it back together and i noticed that on the metal disks that go between the friction ones are not perfect circles, each one has a kind of taper on one edge and a tab on them, i am sure that this is for some sort of balancing and my question is... what pattern or order do they go in, and also there was a smaller black ring with three tabs on it, and this just seemed out of place because there was only one of them, and help would be great, thanks
     
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    well thanks for the help....... i just put it back together the way i would for my dirtbike, and ill find out tomorrow on my way to work if it will hold up or not
     
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    Hope it all worked out good.

    On Bikes that have done a full Rip Van Winkle ... it's good to get in there and do as you did for the Friction Plates ... but, ... also take a Dual-Action Sander and put a nice new surface on the Driver Plates, too.
     
    RickCoMatic, Jan 22, 2009
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    Here's how it goes together: That "tab" needs to be spaced every 72 degrees; in other words, the first one goes at the top, the next one goes at about the 2:00 poisition, the next one at 4:00 etc., all the way around. If you line them all up together the clutch will be horribly out of balance. That strange black "ring" you found (kind of like a giant wave washer) goes inside the one plate that has a larger ID to accomodate it. It goes in the "outer middle" of the pack, in the sixth position; in other words it is the third plate in from the outside.

    If this still doesn't make sense I can post up (or email you) a copy of the plate placement diagram. The "tabbed" plates were used in the 550s (which I have) as well as the XJ700 I believe, you didn't say what you have.
     
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    that makes perfect since, and strangly enough thes how i put it together... huh...
     
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