Well I'm going to take it all apart and measure everything and try to find the cause of the problem. This was the motor that George Roach
built and had a modified clutch pressure plate with a bearing installed inside of it. The hub was modified to and it had 7 steel plates and 8
friction installed. Also had a factory late ball bearing release that was hitting the seal. That's what got me to change out everything and use
what I have in the past on my other bikes. Also there was no 5/16th ball with his set up. I had it adjusted so it fully engaged and dis-engaged
but it would slip when you got on it hard.
I'm going to measure the length of the old hub and compare it to the new one. As it is now, the only way I can get it to engage is to run the extra
steel plate and fiber disc. Doing that it won't fully dis-engage because I haven't modified the new hub. Tried making a second hole on the release
arm closer to the center and all that did was make the clutch lever harder to pull. Seemed not to even pull the release as much either. This is
with a NOS pressure plate and a good original hub.
Before I installed the ball bearing pusher I did match it up to the stock one and they where the same length. But when you factor in the recess
for the steel ball it makes the ball bearing pusher shorter by half the distance of the 5/16" ball. I would think that would cause the clutch not to
fully dis-engage with the correct 6 steel and 7 fibers but it won't fully engage.
Going to also measure the long push rod and make sure it's the stock length. Maybe he made it longer to make up the distance for not using
the 5/16" steel ball. Was that something guys did for some reason years ago? But I backed out the release allen screw all the way also to see if the
clutch would fully engage with 6 steel and 7 fibers and something was adding length somewhere and pushing on the pressure plate.
This one has got me stumped.
To much length between to release and the pressure plate?
Found a NOS one local so I can wrap this up 