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  • #31
    Clutch basket off...bad news (pics)

    I took the clutch basket off this afternoon, I found the locking washer easy to bend back (and reuse in future) but I found that i did not have a socket for it (thought it was a 19mm it is bigger than a 22mm apparently..i was about to gice up and head to the store for a bigger socket set when i (to my horror) found it was on finger tighter , now that aside i was trying to figure out where the big washer went....well i came to the conclusion that it sit in the bottom of the basket , please correct me if i am wrong, what i found next put an end to todays activity's (see pic)



    I am guessing one of 2 things happened to crack that gear A: the basket was slammed into it during reinstallation or B: it happened when i popped it into gear a few times trying to break the clutch lose .

    anyone have a spare one they can sell me?? please PM

    this is where the washer was sitting originally


    does anyone know what caused this on the basket and should i get another basket?


    thnx for any help guys
    1982 XJ1100J MAX ,25.000 miles

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    • #32
      Not sure who worked on the clutch before you, but sounds like they didn't pay much attention to detail when they took it apart. The small gear you show... though I can't see the crack, if there is one, that little gear is pretty important. It gets driven from the teeth on the back of your clutch basket and spins that sprocket it is meshing with in your pic... which just happens to be your oil pump gear. I'm sure I have a couple of those gears laying around. PM me your address and I'll try to get one sent to you early next week.

      When installing your clutch basket on, sometimes it is very tough to get everything lined back up correctly and get the basket to fully seat. This may have caused someone to try forcing it on. Hard to imagine they forced it hard enough to crack a hardened gear.. but I've heard of worse.

      As for the "gouge" in the clutch boss itself.. I've seen several like that. I think it's just a blem from the manufacturing process. I have one that looks just like that that I ran for quite a while with no problems.

      Tod
      Try your hardest to be the kind of person your dog thinks you are.

      You can live to be 100, as long as you give up everything that would make you want to live to be 100!

      Current bikes:
      '06 Suzuki DR650
      *'82 XJ1100 with the 1179 kit. "Mad Maxim"
      '82 XJ1100 Completely stock fixer-upper
      '82 XJ1100 Bagger fixer-upper
      '82 XJ1100 Motor/frame and lots of boxes of parts
      '82 XJ1100 Parts bike
      '81 XS1100 Special
      '81 YZ250
      '80 XS850 Special
      '80 XR100
      *Crashed/Totalled, still own

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      • #33
        thnx Tod, the washer in the wrong place the nut on hand tight ...some one Definitely! not pay attention when they put it back together, the cracked gear has spurs and rough edges along with the crack PM sent thnx again
        1982 XJ1100J MAX ,25.000 miles

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        • #34
          No problem... How did the discs look?

          Tod
          Try your hardest to be the kind of person your dog thinks you are.

          You can live to be 100, as long as you give up everything that would make you want to live to be 100!

          Current bikes:
          '06 Suzuki DR650
          *'82 XJ1100 with the 1179 kit. "Mad Maxim"
          '82 XJ1100 Completely stock fixer-upper
          '82 XJ1100 Bagger fixer-upper
          '82 XJ1100 Motor/frame and lots of boxes of parts
          '82 XJ1100 Parts bike
          '81 XS1100 Special
          '81 YZ250
          '80 XS850 Special
          '80 XR100
          *Crashed/Totalled, still own

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          • #35
            Originally posted by trbig View Post
            No problem... How did the discs look?

            Tod
            Have not looked at them yet...going to get a tool to measure the thickness
            1982 XJ1100J MAX ,25.000 miles

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            • #36
              As long as you are in there, replace the clutch springs. They can be had online for about $20 or less. After almost 30 years, I KNOW they will NOT hold under stress!
              Ray Matteis
              KE6NHG
              XS1100 E '78 (winter project)
              XS1100 SF Bob Jones worked on it!

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              • #37
                Check a local shop for the springs first. Mine (Local shop) is usually high priced, but they sell some good heavy duty springs for $16. Usually on lesser priced stuff like that, it's better to spend a couple extra bucks at your local place. It may be a couple extra bucks, but you won't have shipping charges, and if you ever need a favor like shim swaps or something.. they will be way more apt to let you swap for free than some guy off the street that doesn't spend any money there.


                Tod
                Try your hardest to be the kind of person your dog thinks you are.

                You can live to be 100, as long as you give up everything that would make you want to live to be 100!

                Current bikes:
                '06 Suzuki DR650
                *'82 XJ1100 with the 1179 kit. "Mad Maxim"
                '82 XJ1100 Completely stock fixer-upper
                '82 XJ1100 Bagger fixer-upper
                '82 XJ1100 Motor/frame and lots of boxes of parts
                '82 XJ1100 Parts bike
                '81 XS1100 Special
                '81 YZ250
                '80 XS850 Special
                '80 XR100
                *Crashed/Totalled, still own

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                • #38
                  Originally posted by DiverRay View Post
                  As long as you are in there, replace the clutch springs. They can be had online for about $20 or less. After almost 30 years, I KNOW they will NOT hold under stress!
                  the springs I took out have a....blue coating on half of the spring...does that mean they are new springs or is that an OEM coating? should i even bother to see if they are in tolerance levels per the manual?

                  thnx again
                  1982 XJ1100J MAX ,25.000 miles

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                  • #39
                    IMHO, you've gone through all this to get that far, even if its $20, that is cheap compared to pulling all of this open again. Besides, given everything else the PO did, would you trust he put the right springs in?
                    Life is what happens while your planning everything else!

                    When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.

                    81 XS1100 Special - Humpty Dumpty
                    80 XS1100 Special - Project Resurrection


                    Previously owned
                    93 GSX600F
                    80 XS1100 Special - Ruby
                    81 XS1100 Special
                    81 CB750 C
                    80 CB750 C
                    78 XS750

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                    • #40
                      Originally posted by DGXSER View Post
                      IMHO, you've gone through all this to get that far, even if its $20, that is cheap compared to pulling all of this open again. Besides, given everything else the PO did, would you trust he put the right springs in?
                      rgr, understood,
                      1982 XJ1100J MAX ,25.000 miles

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