Kodiak 400
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Kodiak 400
Dude there's a cover over the clutch that needs to be removed so you can service (grease) the weights. Over the couple of swampings, there has been fine silt or mud that has seeped into the clutch and is now not allowing the wieghts to fully engage the clutch.
It's pretty simple to do once you get the cover off. The cover is held on by a dozen or so phillips screws and has a gasket around it, when you take it off the mud inside will probably be packed in so hard it will look like the same shape as the cover does.
I've seen this on two or three different occasions and we just cleaned all the desbris out of the clutch and started sprayin' penetrating oil to flush out the remaining silt we couldn't see. Then we re-greased the slides where the weights moved on with some regular grease and bingo-bango-bongo... it worked!!!
Keep in mind I'm not a Yamaha mechanic, but I'll never let a broken bike ruin a days worth of ridin' so if it ain't runnin' and we're leavin' for a rip-er-oonie I'll do whatever I think I'm capable of to get out there with the boys. (Oh and sometimes girls.)
It's pretty simple to do once you get the cover off. The cover is held on by a dozen or so phillips screws and has a gasket around it, when you take it off the mud inside will probably be packed in so hard it will look like the same shape as the cover does.
I've seen this on two or three different occasions and we just cleaned all the desbris out of the clutch and started sprayin' penetrating oil to flush out the remaining silt we couldn't see. Then we re-greased the slides where the weights moved on with some regular grease and bingo-bango-bongo... it worked!!!
Keep in mind I'm not a Yamaha mechanic, but I'll never let a broken bike ruin a days worth of ridin' so if it ain't runnin' and we're leavin' for a rip-er-oonie I'll do whatever I think I'm capable of to get out there with the boys. (Oh and sometimes girls.)
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