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[jackdaw]

Ps i have also tried the adjustment on the clutch arm itself just incase

[Norm]

Pedro, not sure how much hair you have but you will probably pull out what you have by the time you fix it. Another thing I have done is grind about 3mm out of the clutch perch to try and get more cable travel, for every 3mm of cable travel on the lever end means you only get about .4mm push on the rod,bit of flex and stretch here and there and the plates can't get enough lift

[simon]

THe CORK plates are Part # H89K and they are bonded cork plates that go straight in. If you click the vid of my bike above it will show you all my mechanical follies including the fix I designed for the cover if you have a lathe to make it on. The Hitchcocks version is pretty reasonably priced though if you can't be bothered with the shagging around.

[Norm]

Simon you have got me thinking that I might try the cork ones in my Inter when the Barnett ones finally give up, they have been in there for a few years now and apart from a slight slip under acceleration they have been good

[Leon Novello]

Ariel used cork, but they were in a separate dry housing, so they didn`t have oil-drag when they opened.

[simon]

Hallelujah! Almost a disciple. Just you wait Norm it will be a revelation. It was a G80 with replacement ferodo plates that showed me the light. It cleared ok but was basically an on and off switch so any slight uphill attitude and the bike would lunge forward. A set of old fashioned plates with various excellent Aussi Red Wine corks grafted in and it was a total transformation. When I sorted the clearance in my clutch it would still take up with a final lunge even if I tried to ride it (the clutch I mean). The bonded plates were not what I was initially after as I wanted the original 50's style ones with the holes to poke cork through but the H89K's arrived and so I slapped them in. It's now been a good 6 to 8 months and the bike is in regular use. I haven't had a single false change, a single leaping out of gear or a crunch as I engaged gear. I do have the three stronger springs and so it is a tad heavier than I would like but it really isn't a problem compared with the ongoing disaster that was the previous setup. Do it Norm!

[Norm]

Simon I made up corks for the Flying Flea recently, I just bought one of those cork sanding blocks for about $3 cut them up and they worked brilliantly, be great if we could find old plates with the holes in them and just add cork as needed

[Norm]

Just remembered I paid a $100 for those Barnett plates back then so they weren't cheap and they have been sort of bearable but always with a little slip which is slowly getting worse

[simon]

Yes a sanding block would be fine if it was a single chunk of cork. I'm not sure how the laminated stuff would go. I just cut wine corks to an oversized shape for the holes in the plate with a gig on a bandsaw to keep them all the same then sliced the long tombstone shape into fillets about 8mm thick maybe thinner I'm working from memory. They were then dowsed in boiling water so that they got soft and springy and then they would poke into the holes in the plate with cork bulging a bit either side. I then clamped them up tight between two sheets of perspex and when they were dry the next day I trued the faces up with a sharp tool in the lathe. They are still as far as I know working fine (they were on the 51 Bullet that I sold). If you look at those British clutches for the Albion and the Burman boxes the baskets are pretty light weight affairs. The Ducati clutch which is designed with modern composites in mind is a massive thing comparatively billet cast and heavy and ridged.

[Scalyback]

Tornado has the cover stiffener from our hosts, and I have never had a clutch problem. The cable did go once, and by the pressure on the lever, I guess the prev. own. fitted heavier springs.



When I changed the cable, there were about three turns of the cable adjuster between slipping, and catching, so I left it halfway between these two points, and never have had a problem!



Not bad for a 1994 bullet, that was made when Enfield were going broke, and quality had supposedly gone out the window, I feel very privileged to have what seems like a good one (Even with the rattle). In fact, Tornado rides very, very well!



Here, Tornado and Ammo have a téte à tète (Or a 'lean to lean' on sidestands) at the offham rally a few weeks ago.