Urgent Help Please..... Gearbox Or Clutch Thoughts

andyt749 · Aug 30, 2016

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The stack height can be quite a lot lower than recommended ime without problems.
However, it mustn't be higher or there is a danger of the top plate jumping out.
Yes, the pressure plate teeth should engage on the drum teeth, that's what keeps it located. I'd it weren't, load would be placed on the spring bolts, which wouldn't last long.
The clacking is the stack oscillating within the basket with the tabs bashing the basket slots and cutting notches in it.
The jangling is the sound of the un-loaded plates floating around and 'ringing' like the metal disks in a tambourine.
Plates sticking together is a pretty natural consequence of running an open clutch cover. If the plates get damp, the ferrous material in the sintered friction plates will corrode to the steel plain plates. They will usually unstick fairly readily though.
I have a weird mixture of newish Newfren plates, newish Suzuki plates and the knackered plates the bike came with. The Suzuki plates have the baked in lithium grease mod applied to them and the stack height is seriously low.
My clutch never sticks but then it rarely gets wet. It also doesn't slip, doesn't drag and is very smooth, as well as being quiet and two-finger light
@Derek on here has had his quiet clutch modded plates last 36,000 miles or so. I don't know what make they were or whether his clutch is open.
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suzuki plates?? do you have the part number or model?

Old rider · Aug 30, 2016

They're actually pattern Suzuki plates but they're well made and cheap.
They're for a GS450 iirc but I got mine from @Nelson on here.
Steve @Mr.R on here uses them, so he may well be able to point you at exactly where to get them but I think Ebay.
The GS450 has a wet clutch but the plates seem to work fine dry.

Old rider · Aug 31, 2016

Old rider said: ↑

They're actually pattern Suzuki plates but they're well made and cheap.
They're for a GS450 iirc but I got mine from @Nelson on here.
Steve @Mr.R on here uses them, so he may well be able to point you at exactly where to get them but I think Ebay.
The GS450 has a wet clutch but the plates seem to work fine dry.
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Of course, you could also buy oem Suzuki GS450 plates...

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