One other note. I went to the shop Saturday, They had a customer's Busa in Back and he was complaining about the Clutch slipping. Well the shop had replaced the clutch once, and he was back again, they checked for signs of abuse (I was thinking LOTS of Wheelies or runs at the 1/4) anyway not the case, the steels look great, clutch looks healthy.
So, Service Manager asks if i would mind taking it for a test ride, seeing as I am familiar with the Busa I should be able to pick out any wierdness. I said sure.
Went out and did eveything I could to make that thing slip, and yeah i even did a couple of NOT so nice of things to try to get some heat in the thing and make it slip. Bottom Line the Clutch is 100% good to go.
BUT
The clutch lever was extremely sensitive to pressure. If you were a 4 finger clutch user and at all nervous or holding on tight it would be SUPER easy to apply the 1/8th of inch needed to produce some real slippage. All I had to do was barely apply pressure to the lever and the motor would spin up.
SO, I return to the shop and explain what I found. The Fix? Remove and replace operator.
OK seriously though, simply recommended that they dial the lever in a little closer to the bar, and recommend that the owner pay attention to what his clutch fingers are doing when accelerating hard because fingers over the lever and holding on to easily cause clutch slippage due only to pulling in the clutch just that tiny little bit.
Just a thought.
So, Service Manager asks if i would mind taking it for a test ride, seeing as I am familiar with the Busa I should be able to pick out any wierdness. I said sure.
Went out and did eveything I could to make that thing slip, and yeah i even did a couple of NOT so nice of things to try to get some heat in the thing and make it slip. Bottom Line the Clutch is 100% good to go.
BUT
The clutch lever was extremely sensitive to pressure. If you were a 4 finger clutch user and at all nervous or holding on tight it would be SUPER easy to apply the 1/8th of inch needed to produce some real slippage. All I had to do was barely apply pressure to the lever and the motor would spin up.
SO, I return to the shop and explain what I found. The Fix? Remove and replace operator.
OK seriously though, simply recommended that they dial the lever in a little closer to the bar, and recommend that the owner pay attention to what his clutch fingers are doing when accelerating hard because fingers over the lever and holding on to easily cause clutch slippage due only to pulling in the clutch just that tiny little bit.
Just a thought.
