anyone installed a hinson basket?do you have to grind the rivits that hold it to the gear or does it come with the gear and dampner?if you have to separate the basket what do they send you to reinstall the basket to the gear?

 

Not a 100% sure but from what I understood when I investigated getting one for my '98 YZ250 I would have to gring the rivets to get the gear off and they provide you with bolts and nuts to put it back on the Hinson.

 

So if I bought this Hinson clutch basket(my plates are starting to fry) it would come with everything neccessary to put it in, excluding tools. Should I get Dirt digger kit?

 

I didn't buy a Hinson basket because it wasn't worth the money. The only time you need to buy a basket is if one of the arms on your old one is broke. When I took my clutch apart the basket had grooves worn in it. I used a file and gently filed all the fingers so they had no more grooves. Then I put sandpaper around the file to bring it to a fine finish. Just remember to file each finger evenly. All I needed to buy was the clutch plates and the clutch worked like new!

 

I recently installed a hinson basket on my banshee after shattering fingers off of the stocker. I grinded the rivets down on the back with a cut off wheel. And punched them through. The basket has threads in it. A screw goes through the back plate, through the gear and threads into the basket. I used red loctite on them, I don't want them coming loose. I also use a barnett kevlar clutch. I've made it half a season so far, still holding good. My 370 long rod eats clutches, usually the fibers fly apart. I've done the file thing to the fingers before. But hinsons are beefed up were the fibers hit the basket. I've noticed easier pull and no dragging with the new basket.