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rkildu · Posted: Fri Nov 25, 2011 5:46 pm Post subject: Clutch assembly confusion

I'm back again with questions from my full spline lub. I got the clutch out of it today. I had placed an alignment mark across the Housing Cover and the pressure plate, but did not get a mark on the clutch housing. I didn't see a way to do it. Anyway after cleaning the parts up I started looking for the factory paint marks, and found all three of them.

According to Clymers I should reassemble the parts with the marks at about 120 degrees apart. My problem is that I can't get there from here!

When I put the housing cover and the pressure plate together based on the marks I made, the BMW marks are almost 180 degrees apart. The closest I can get to the Clymer requirements, using the mark on the housing cover as zero, gives me one mark at about 120 degrees clockwise and the other slightly less than 90 degrees counter clockwise.

Does this sound typical? And is it close enough?

Thanks
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Rod Kilduff
97 K1100LT HighLine
82 R100Lufty

rkildu · Posted: Fri Nov 25, 2011 6:01 pm Post subject:

Here is a picture of the best I can figure out. The Orange dots correspond the BMW Mark locations. The white is my mark.

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Rod Kilduff
97 K1100LT HighLine
82 R100Lufty

Inge K. · Posted: Fri Nov 25, 2011 8:59 pm Post subject:

Looks good to me, the individual parts is marked at it`s heaviest point.
As long as you keep them apart as much as possible, you should have a good nights sleep.

Inge K.

rkildu · Posted: Sat Nov 26, 2011 10:13 am Post subject:

That was my final analysis, after sleeping on it. I guess I got fixated on that 120 degree's thing. It did say best approximation. I just don't want to have take this thing apart again any time soon!
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Rod Kilduff
97 K1100LT HighLine
82 R100Lufty

Rafal · Posted: Sat Nov 26, 2011 11:40 am Post subject:

Hello!
I could not find markings on mines bike clutch parts. One trick I have found on Flying Brick is to put the tennis ball on flat surface, then put the clutch facing splines up, and see weather it not lean to one direction. If so then rearrange parts set-up.
In my case I went for dynamic balancing:

Best regards
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