- Tue Oct 08, 2019 9:27 pm
#85937
The adjuster just screws into the outer cover, M8 thread, it points the cable out in roughly the 10 o'clock direction before it loops around under the tank. Some of the clutch cables have 90° ferrules at the gearbox end to avoid having too long a run. For some reason the original Electra-X had a longer clutch cable run than the Sixty-5.
One of the irritations I find is that with every single 5 speed cable I have ever tried is that the inner cable is always too long and takes up pretty much most of the adjustment at the clutch lever and the gearbox end adjusters while the cable is still new (I should probably learn how to make my own clutch cables). To keep the 5 speed box sweet the cable needs to be kept properly adjusted. On Not A Fury I added a spacer made of short section of M8 threaded bolt and M8 stainless extended nut together with a locknut (all slotted for the inner cable) at the handlebar lever end so that the adjusters still actually have a decent amount of adjustment in them. As bodges go it's fairly neat, though it could always be fitted at the gearbox end with a suitable shroud.
(The clutch lever assembly with decomp lever was meant for some pit bike from far Cathay but is just fine here.)
Also when you have the end cover off you can see if it has the earlier or later lifting mechanism for the clutch. Early ones just had a lever with a forked end where the cable end sits, which with constant flexing can eat cables fairly regularly. The later type has the cable slotting into a hinged link to give the cable end an easier time. To change the cable at the gearbox end, the whole cover doesn't need to come off, just undo the plug with the 18mm or ⅜W hex and get in there with a pair of long-nosed pliers.
If getting the end cover off doesn't destroy the original gasket, that's good. Newer pattern gaskets are made of thinner material, you might have to use two to stop the kickstart binding when you tighten the cover screws up.
Hope this helps.
A.
One of the irritations I find is that with every single 5 speed cable I have ever tried is that the inner cable is always too long and takes up pretty much most of the adjustment at the clutch lever and the gearbox end adjusters while the cable is still new (I should probably learn how to make my own clutch cables). To keep the 5 speed box sweet the cable needs to be kept properly adjusted. On Not A Fury I added a spacer made of short section of M8 threaded bolt and M8 stainless extended nut together with a locknut (all slotted for the inner cable) at the handlebar lever end so that the adjusters still actually have a decent amount of adjustment in them. As bodges go it's fairly neat, though it could always be fitted at the gearbox end with a suitable shroud.
(The clutch lever assembly with decomp lever was meant for some pit bike from far Cathay but is just fine here.)
Also when you have the end cover off you can see if it has the earlier or later lifting mechanism for the clutch. Early ones just had a lever with a forked end where the cable end sits, which with constant flexing can eat cables fairly regularly. The later type has the cable slotting into a hinged link to give the cable end an easier time. To change the cable at the gearbox end, the whole cover doesn't need to come off, just undo the plug with the 18mm or ⅜W hex and get in there with a pair of long-nosed pliers.
If getting the end cover off doesn't destroy the original gasket, that's good. Newer pattern gaskets are made of thinner material, you might have to use two to stop the kickstart binding when you tighten the cover screws up.
Hope this helps.
A.