Buckster

Do you want some cheese to go with that?

Yep, it’s raining. I need it to fine up so I can get the bike out and put the primary back together.

Amazon. It’s specifically for Harley touring.

@PhoenixRebourne, welcome to the forum, please introduce yourself.

Clutch is fully assembled, I will put it back in the bike in the morning, I had to go out and help a friend with a problem with his electric garage door this afternoon, the friction pads on the Barnet clutch are much wider than the oem. It all went together nicely, quite an easy job really. The press is one I bought on Amazon, it was a return apparently and was been resold for less than £80 so I snapped it up and have not regretted it.

I don’t use it very often, in fact it is only the second time, plus I keep it partially disassembled as I have no where to permanently put it.

So today I pressed apart the clutch basket and replaced the clutch hub bearing and pressed it all back together. Here it is all pressed apart. New bearing pressed in and retaining ring fitted. Inner hub pressed in and retaining ring fitted. Time for lunch then fit the new clutch pack.

After that mileage there will be engine wear, when the bike isn’t moving to pistons lean on the rings in the bores. You have to hand it to those Nazi engineers.

Probably the rings, that’s good for a horizontally opposed engine.

Well I’m 50,000 km behind you so who knows?

How many miles on the GS now?

Pretty sure they were in a movie together.

Well at 60,000 miles it seemed like a good time to go through everything.

Replaced them today, I have a tool that uses a drift to remove the originals and a press to fit the new ones. I also have a new shifter shaft to go on but I also pulled the clutch today so will fit the shaft when I reassemble everything. The primary oil smelt nicely burnt from the slipping clutch.

Yes, it increases the clutch surface area by 12%.

All your hopes and dreams.

It's the opposite side of the crankcase.

Plus you are incompetent.

You shouldn't smoke crack cocaine.

I would have drilled and tapped it after sourcing a suitable magnetic sum plug, but I would have taken it out slowly with a hand drill so to stop the swarf from ending up in the sump. Not a hard job.

Properly.

At least it has a chance of getting a proper repair now.

Go UNC.