Smoothing out a clutch basket.

[wombat]

As my parts are coming in to assemble my engine, I have been going through and inspecting things before I start to assemble. My clutch basket is pretty worn, and showing grooves where the fiber plates ride against it. My spare clutch basket is not showing them as bad, but still showing them. I know that these will stop the clutch from disengaging all the way when the lever is pulled, so can these bee filed down and smoothed out, or is replacing the clutch basket the only way to fix this?

[KevinTwoStk]

You can improve the situation by smoothing out the grooves, but stock clutch baskets are fairly soft so the basket will likely re-groove itself before too long.

I recently installed a Wiseco clutch basket on my '00 KX 125 and noticed an immediate improvement. It's much easier to shift into neutral, and goes into gear from neutral much more smoothly than before.

A Hinson clutch basket is also a great choice.

[wombat]

That makes since to me. Thanks for the insight.