Clutch Tech--The Triumph Cush Drive

[fouraceswes]

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Now we are gonna go deeper inside your clutch that you ever wanted to be. The cush drive in the center of the Triumph clutch basket is made up of steel, but inside there is a... <BR><BR>To read the rest of this blog entry from The Jockey Journal, click here. (http://www.jockeyjournal.com/?p=377)

[ImperialHouse1971]

A wealth of knowledge..........thanks. I was wondering about the insides of this part. Are the rubber replacements readily available?

[2_wheel_nation]

Warning, it can be a pain in the butt to just get the screws out that hold the top plate

understatement of the year.

[chopit]

Yea those fuckin screws are a major pain in the ass. The jackass that decided to make that a flat tip screw ought to be ass raped till his eyeballs fallout!

[Matt]

After reading Fouraceswes' tech tip on replacing the clutch rubbers, I thought I'd share a trick I learned for making this pain in the ass job a little easier. A little fabrication is involved. You also need an old main shaft and an old clutch steel. Weld two arms onto the clutch steel like in photo. Then place your old mainshaft in a vise(I have ground flats on mine to prevent slipping). Now place the clutch assembly onto the mainshaft (Clutch Center, Basket, Clutch Inner Drum, ShockAbsorber Spider, etc.). Place as many rubbers as you can, then get a buddy to use the high tech tork tool to compress the rubbers, by torking the center drum. At that point you can just drop the remaining rubber in. Be conscious of your roller bearings (not to spill them!) I'm not to good at descriptive writing so I hope this makes sense.http://img179.imageshack.us/img179/1746/img0979gz3.th.jpg (http://img179.imageshack.us/my.php?image=img0979gz3.jpg)http://img375.imageshack.us/img375/7177/img0982nm7.th.jpg (http://img375.imageshack.us/my.php?image=img0982nm7.jpg)

[Dr. Benway]

Check out the big brain on Matt!
Excellent tip.

Tech Week!

[Dragon]

Yes indeed, good enough to attach to Wes's post, so everyone reading the blog will see it.

[warehouse skate]

killer trick Matt!!
thanks

[2_wheel_nation]

Be conscious of your roller bearings (not to spill them!)

you're telling me you didn't make a jig to turn the bike on it's side so they wouldn't be able to fall out? pfff! slacker.

[Matt]

Damn!...I'll get right on that....Should have something by the end of the week!

[fouraceswes]

That is a great tip, I aim to steal it and pretend I made it up myself. ; )

Yes, the little rubber dealies are available. Like so many aftermarket parts they are shaped slightly differnt than the OE ones and are therefore that much harder to get into place. Such is life on old bikes

[bdavanza]

That tool makes this job easy as pie, outside of getting the forking screws out.
You can almost guarantee needed new screws so you may as well order a set up when you order the rubber parts.
Adding to the tool fun, here are 3 I use:
One tool is a steel and a friction plate, aligned up, drilled and bolted together. The bolts help you get it in and out of a basket and the tool locks the clutch.
The other clutch steel tool, if made with the bar or bars at an angle, is also helpful for holding the clutch in place when torquing stuff. I also have a 9/16 deep socket that I ground down 2 flats on the outside, so you can put a wrench on it, for adjusting the clutch screw with the cover on. The other tool is a similar clutch holder for a HD.
cheers
-Ben

[bhead1968]

Putting my motor back together and I knew this part was going to be tough, dont know of any other tricks to pull these fuckers out so... works like a charm.. I'm calling it the corkscrewgetthemlittlefuckersout tool.

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[Dragon]

Bumping for move to Tech files, before it gets buried again.