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Article & Photos By: Daniel Donley
www.pandemoniumcustomchoppers.com
was recently at an event and had the opportunity to speak with a lot of different motorcycle enthusiasts from sportbike to offroad and everything in between, and one question kept coming up was how to adjust your clutch and throttle cables. Well see, there are a lot of different ways to do a lot of different things. If the outcome is the same, it doesn’t matter how you got there. This month’s tech applies to most all motorcycles metric and American, some will vary but the concept is mostly the same. So, here is my take on proper maintenance and adjustment of clutch and throttle cables.
The bike in the pictures is a 1994 Harley-Davidson Sportster. Pictured is the clutch adjustment boot cover. This is to help protect the adjustment mechanism from weather. You will want to slide this boot in an upward motion, to uncover the adjustment mechanism.
Here you can see that the clutch adjustment mechanism is heavily rusted. Definitely a lack of maintenance here… I use a small wire brush away as much rust a possible.
Obviously, the clutch adjusting mechanism was froze up because it was heavily rusted. So, a couple squirts of penetrating lubricant might get things freed up… You got about a 50/50 chance here. Sometimes they break, and you must replace the entire cable. Other times like this one the penetrating lubricant did its job
18 February ‘18
- CYCLE SOURCE MAGAZINE
