How hot should the case on the clutch be?? mine gets really quit hot.. And i'm just wondering if this is normal or not..

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They do get fairly warm but it shouldn't get hot. You might want to take it off and take a look at it. You might have a clutch binding up on you causing your belt to smoke.

 

when I had it open for the new belt I didn't notice anything out of the ordinary.. it looked like it should have.. I'm assuming if it is binding it would be a little more on the obvious side correct??

and how's the best way to check the alignment on the clutch?

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I couldn't really tell until i had my clutch cover off and ran it and saw that the clutch was sticking. The reason I did that was my quad would bog alot after I let off the throttle and get back on it. It would take awhile to get the rpms up again. So Dennis took it apart and figured it out at the dunes. As far as clutch alignement I am not sure cause Dennis did all that for me

 

well it deffinatly doesn' tbog.. and it halls my 300lb butt up just about any hill up there..... that would include starting from a dead stop at the bottom of a big hill.........

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Well maybe u don't have anything to worry about. Maybe somebody else might know something

 

I ride mainly in sand and mine gets so hot you can't even touch it unless you have gloves on. I was doing some testing with clutch parts one day and found this out. My dealer said this is normal riding in sand.

 

that's good to know ! Thanks.

 

I guess I just never noticed

 

I've held an air temp gauge at the clutch exhaust port on my 250 and have seen
temps over 120 degrees. For a while I even had a small fan that would blow
more air into the clutch housing but it did not help much. I need a fan that will
move at least 120 cfms to make a difference. I've got two 3"x 3" fans that I
use to blow across the head and those fans put out 40 cfms each. A cooler
clutch equals a more efficient clutch and that means better power transfer.