Lost clutch
- Thread starter Dude
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well i took the clutch cover off. the nut i loosened before to turn the shaft was in the cover. It looks like the shaft is broken too as thre is no room to screw that nut back onto. So i tried to take the inner clutch deal off and broke one of the flywheel studs. Ugh i need one of those. Woodruf key on the drivers side???? Remember i have no clutch action dead like before. Also turning the wheel in gear does not really kick over the piston. It does but it takes like 5 turns to get the piston to move some.
Dont get me wrong i have sheared a woodruff key on a crank snout before. At 700hp+ and the crank bolt was loose to boot.
Dont get me wrong i have sheared a woodruff key on a crank snout before. At 700hp+ and the crank bolt was loose to boot.
bike bandit has a good site for finding oem parts. that would explain the clutch not working. I would order the whole push rod assembly with all the nuts and ball and everything and an all new set of spring bolts. they are nice to have around. if you take the clutch boss off and drill into the broke off bolt it should thread out the back of the boss. i just did this recently myself. all the stuff is decently affordable. i was thinking you sheared the key on the clutch side of the crank. but apparently not. by the way be careful tightning the spring bolts they shear supper easy. manual says 53 inch lbs
no no the little rod that had the phillips adjustment in the head. That rod appears to have broken i can find the other piece. When i took the cover off the nut and washer where in the cover. But there was no place to thread onto. I assumed it sheared. I cant find it either.
give me a call i sent a pm.
give me a call i sent a pm.
the stud that went into the center appears to have lost a little chunk off the end. it also wont come out. I cant break that nut either even with a impact and heat.
This is all speculation as the quad wont even engage a gear. But when i took the cover of the lock nut for that stud was chillin in the cover at the bottom. and i am pretty certain i snapped the stud the other day when i did the adjustment. i torqued to 7 ft lbs and it got real loose so yeah.
If you spin the center hub of the clutch, you are spinning the input shaft of the transmission. If the transmission is in gear and the center hub of the clutch is moved it should try to move the tires. If that's not happening, you have a problem between the cases.
Once you've wrung the end of the clutch pushrod off, there's nothing to lose by using all means necessary to extract it because it has probably spaghetti'd inside the input shaft and is going to be a pain to get out of there.
The best way to get the clutch pushrod out of the input shaft is to use the clutch lever to push it out a bit and then grab it with some good pliers. Once it's started out, don't stop. If the clutch lever won't even budge it, you'll have to split the cases. The input shaft is hollow end to end with the two shafts and the ball inside of it. Once you have the input shaft out of the transmission you can pin punch the rod out from the end.
7 ft lbs doesn't sound like too much on that clutch push rod. I probably put more than that on mine. I'm not sure what the book says for spec, but I wrenched down on mine because I had it back off on me when I was breaking my quad in and the clutch adjustment went to hell... I didn't want that again.
Once you've wrung the end of the clutch pushrod off, there's nothing to lose by using all means necessary to extract it because it has probably spaghetti'd inside the input shaft and is going to be a pain to get out of there.
The best way to get the clutch pushrod out of the input shaft is to use the clutch lever to push it out a bit and then grab it with some good pliers. Once it's started out, don't stop. If the clutch lever won't even budge it, you'll have to split the cases. The input shaft is hollow end to end with the two shafts and the ball inside of it. Once you have the input shaft out of the transmission you can pin punch the rod out from the end.
7 ft lbs doesn't sound like too much on that clutch push rod. I probably put more than that on mine. I'm not sure what the book says for spec, but I wrenched down on mine because I had it back off on me when I was breaking my quad in and the clutch adjustment went to hell... I didn't want that again.
yueah when i try to back of the clutch boss the tires move. The thing is why did i loose forward movement when the quad was rolling. If i lost the clutch i would think i should have still had forward gears like last time this happened on page 1 unless the clutch pack is needed. Can it become so far out of adjustment that there is no grab on the pp and the motor free spins? I am trying to figure out if i should eve waste my moeny on this right now if its inside i cant afford it right now. I dont wanna throw any money into the outside right now if its not gonna solve the issue. I still have a good 1.2 inch of the push rod sticking out to grab on to. It also spins freely inside the shaft. I am guessing the ball is welded to the end.
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yes it does move when rolling machine. I am trying to figure out the failure of why i lost forward. I guess i am trying to figure out how these clutches work. Last time clutch came out of adjustment i could still put it in gear and move it to get home. this time it was in gear and it acted as if it was in neutral. I had to push it 3 miles to the road.
basically the clutch frictions area pressed against the steels by the pressure plate, which gets its pressure from those 5 little springs. the clutch releases when the small rods inside there push out on the pressure plate. thats the 2 second run down of how it works 
