I was the highway with a group of people and we all were being ignorant doing wheelies and all of the sudden when I dropped into 2nd going like 60-65 mph I noticed that when it hit 9k it when up to 12k like it had a turbo I forgot I put on at first I thought it was my new tire and the fact it was still kinda wet from a storm we had well long storie short I just adjusted the clutch on it (2007 GSXR 1000cc) and now its working fine again. So my question is why did I have to adjust it? Do the bolts get loose? (Even though they didn't feel like it at all)
So you took off the 13mm (I think it is) bolt in the middle of the black clutch cover and adjusted the 12m and allens in there?
If thats what you did it sounds like your adjusting the lifter springs on the slipper, which shouldnt have made what your talking about better(by my understanding anyway). Those should help the slip under back torque.
The Hydraulic clutches on the k7/8 1ks are designed to be fully self adjusting other then that slip under back torque. When everything is working the way its supposed to you should never have the situation you had causing you to adjust something. Slipping should mean, air in the line or loss of fluid something like that, or just worn clutch. Had you had a cable clutch, the answer to your question would be, the cable shouldnt loosen on its own (neither should the springs your adjusting) but wheelies CAN have an ill effect on your clutch after some time. How many miles do you have? How many wheelies in a row? Couldve just heated that fawker up real good.
Could pull it and check the fibers.
I usually go to members Busdriver or Pswamp for my clutch knowledge, they got my clutch goooood over the internet. Theres some other real good tech guys that will prob jump in tho, as I have no experience with the hydro clutch they used on your bike.
Well even though you didnt mention that in your first post. Thats the kind of thing that shouldnt ever need adjustment with your clutch. Sure if it was a cable clutch youd adjust the cable either at the lever or at the clutch. Yours is supposed to never need that, and not even be capable of that. Its supposed to do that on its own.
Id start by checking the fluid. Make sure the color and level are good, no air in the lines etc.
It def shouldnt be black. Yes DOT4. 14k miles isnt a lot on a bike but if its been ridden hard and wheelied often I wouldnt be surprised at 14k miles needing some clutch work.
I never judge amounts or color with the lids on. Too hard to tell if its being affected by the lil rubber black diaphragm thing. How ever, it def looks like that could use a flush and fluid change. Hows your bikes oil? changed on time? Right oil?
Yea the same one it says in the manual and I just did one 1000 miles ago and a coolant flush. So now going to change my clutch and fork fluid. Thank you so much I didn't even care to look at my clutch fluid honestly I thought I fucked up a clutch plate
On a hyd. clutch there should be an adjustment for free play at the lever. If you have no free play in the lever you are in effect pulling in on the lever at all times.
Yea I doubt its been changed sense it was bought in 07 but thank you guys for the help I'm going to flush it today with my brake bleeder and figure out how I'm going to raise the bike to do the forks. I love this bike so much especially because I get 42-48mpg hope my baby lasts long <3
OK so the problems back. when I adjusted the clutch it made it engauge close to halfway. And then I flushed the fluid at my work (Firestone) and it engauge verry close in so that made it even better because I am believing that because it engauged so far out that it wasn't 100% engaged. But that day i flushed the brake I was riding with my friends downtown hitting a lot of stop lights(bike at 200°) so I was showing off doing power wheelies because it wasn't slipping at all and then we stopped at a gas station and met up with the rest of the creq. We sat and talked for awhile and then we went directly to the highway and when I hit 8k to show off my bike (the fastest bike in that group) it started to slipp again. And so when I checked it out today it was leaking from both the resover and the bleeder screw but both were tight? And the clutch feels how it was when the problem occured (engauged when bassicaly released)I bled it again and no luck. Could it be clutch slave?
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