Mate really sorry to hear that. Still having suffered similarly you are in the best place. Hope you get well soon. Andy
Holy crap how old are you? Or do you just sleep in garage with your bike? you sure it's pneumonia and not legionella, it's ofter miss diagnosed. you been in any showers or places with luke warm water that's been stud for a while? Hope you get better soon and it don't scar your lungs to much. xxx
Oh sorry I was trying to may be save his life. If I wanted to cheer him up I'd of told that new prize winning joke "I've just deleted all the German contacts from my phone. It's now Hanz free"
If you are sure the noise is coming from the clutch and you are willing to pull the side case I would just drop a new clutch pack in, cleaning it is not going to do any good. Chances are one of the friction plates has lost to much material or has premature ware. When you actually pull those plates out you will notice how small the actual clutch material is and its just not worth the bother, now if this were a dry clutch its totally worth doing. A trick from the dry clutch days was to move the friction plates around when they started to grown but ultimately what cured the noise problem was a nice new clutch pack.
Chest X-Ray shows pneumonia. They think I caught it on honeymoon and its been growing since I've been home. Taken a shed load of blood to check for other things just in case though. So far I don't have malaria [emoji106]
Back to clutch plates. I had a KTM 950 Adv that did a similar thing - a sort of "gronk" noise when pulling away, and a bit of jerking sometimes. I tried pulling the plates out, sanding them down a bit, swapping their positions etc all to no avail. A new set of plates completely sorted the problem. My recommendation is to replace with new. If you're pulling the old ones out it's absolutely no additional work to put new ones in instead of replacing the old knackered ones.
