clutch problem

[kxkowboy]

ive heard people talk about a clutch slipping, where it doesnt fully engage but I am having the opposite problem where I can not get my clutch to disengage.

I have the top cable adjuster-adjusted so there is about a nickels (few mm) worth of play where i can pull the clutch lever that much before the cable really starts pulling. With it on the stand when i start it and put it in gear, the wheel spins (enough that it is hard to stop the wheel and if i do, the bike stalls), even with the clutch lever pulled all the way in and when riding it, the clutch doesnt actually seem to engage until the lever is almost all the way out. I adjusted the cable adjuster and unscrewed it as far as it can unscrew which was considerably further out then it is with the nickels worth of play and it changed nothing aside from the tightness of the lever/cable. On the stand the wheel still spins and stalls if i put enough force on it to stop the wheel and when riding the clutch still seems to engage and the same point (where the lever is almost all the way out).

I think when I am on it and put it in gear, it doesnt stall becuase i keep the Rs up and my weight keeps the back tire from turning and slips the clutch??

Any comments, ideas, advice, etc. would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

[KX500freak]

i think the outer clutchbaskets fingers are starting to desintegrate.
its where the plates are making contact with the basket.

if these fingers get wider due to hitmarks from the plates hitting them when engaging .
so i suggest you take off the clutch cover and inspect your basket ,
so if you see 8 hitmarks on all the fingers ,coming from the 8 plates..

i think its time then for a new basketcase,because its not disengaging properly anymore
ill search a pic for you first eat

[kxkowboy]

is it this:

13095: HOUSING-COMP-CLUTCH
http://www.bikebandit.com/houseofmotorcycles/kawasaki-motorcycle-kx125-kx125l3-us-2001/o/m3813

[kxkowboy]

i was talking to someone today who suggested trying to adjust the lower cable adjuster, not the one by the clutch hand lever.  I thought that these 2 adjusters basically did the same thing. Is there something im missing?

[KX500freak]

yes its that exploded view of the clutch indeed!!

good work ,you see the fingers on the basket case and where the fingers contact the frictionplates.
that housing is probably worn so the plates don,t come free complete.

and for that suggestion of the cable adjuster..
that is logical if the clutch is new ,then you make sure you can adjust the lever above for quite sometime,
so then first you have to turn in the higher lever adjuster complete.
then turn out the lower one as far as needed for the right clutchplay.
then you won,t have to look at it for along time and adjusting is easy from above

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