clutch ?

i have a 1988 hawk gt. I had it on the center stand and noticed when i
rev the engine in neutral, the back wheel starts to turn, so I tryed
adjusting it, but looks like its far as it can go... I've done clutches
on cars many times, but when I looked at a site to buy ( a clutch ) for
my bike, there is about 30 parts listed. where as with a car you just do
pressure plate disc and t/o bearing. what would be typical parts needed
to do a clutch... it has 12,000 miles on it. Thanks in advance,

 

There is NOTHING wrong with the clutch. Your motorcycle has a constant
mesh gearbox. All ten gears are always meshed with their opposite gear
even when the gearbox is in neutral. There are NO bearings inside the
free-wheeling gears. The free-wheeling gears spin on the shafts on a
steel-to-steel mating surface. Fortunately, there is oil on the
mainshaft and countershaft. But oil has viscous drag. It's a little
sticky. In your transmission, the oil is sticky enough to make the
freewheeling gears on the mainshaft turn the pinion gears on the
countershaft. Viscous oil drag turns gears on the countershaft, even
though the gearbox is in neutral. The countershaft turns the
countershaft sprocket. The countershaft sprocket pulls the chain, the
rear wheel spins when the engine idles. Especially when the oil is
cold. If you want the rear wheel to stop spinning, put your shoe
against it, it will stop. Pull your shoe away, the spinning will start
again.

DO NOT ATTEMPT TO USE THIS UNINTENTIONAL WHEEL ROTATION TO LUBE YOUR
CHAIN!!!!

You'll cut your fingers off...

 

Why would his fingers be in danger if he's lubricating the
chain? They shouldn't be in a position to be in danger.

 

If somebody knows how to lube a chain properly, they are squirting the
chain lube onto the edges of the rollers ON THE BOTTOM RUN OF CHAIN,
not the top run, while turning the rear wheel BACKWARDS, so the chain
is moving AWAY from the rear sprocket.

If an idiot was squirting chain lube on the bottom run of chain with
the engine running, the chain could catch his shirtsleeve or hand and
drag his fingers into the sharp sprocket teeth...

A guy I now was doing exactly that when he amputated the first joint of
his index finger. He wrapped the severed joint in a wet rag and went to
the emergency room to ask if they could do anything for him. So he went
around the rest of his life with the first joint of his nose-picking
finger bent off at an angle...

 

thanks, I appreciate it, this group is really helpful. I just never had
a bike with a center stand b-4. naw, I didnt cut my fingers off yet...

 

Oil drag.

Now adjust your clutch properly before you break it.

 

Now please explain why the exact same thing happens when the motorbike
has a DRY clutch...

 

Oil leak ;-)

 

If "an idiot" puts his fingers or loose clothing within reach,
I suppose he gets what he deserves.
I lubricate my chain by spraying chain oil inside the bottom
run, using the plastic tube that comes with the chain oil. With the
engine idling, and the trans in high gear. I know better than to get
my fingers that close.

 

AOL, in spades, with parsley garnish.

 

So? What *other* Darwin Award categories do you compete in?