Well I had another interesting day in the workshop today - raining for most of the day here, so it was a good place to be.....
I knocked up a clutch-holding tool, so the clutch hub-nut could be removed. These are generally torqued right up to buggery from the factory, and I was not sure if it had ever been undone before.......
Here is a picture of the holder. Basically, it is just 3 steel plates riveted together, with the 'holder' bit donated from a box of miscellaneous brackets. In a previous life, it had been a race-stand bracket
This is how it works in practice.....I have to be able to lock the shifting spanner against the workbench, so that when the pressure was applied to the hub nut (anti-clockwise), the clutch-holder was bearing down against the bench through the shifter - with the weight of the motor stopping everything from moving. I needed a pretty big breaker bar slipped over the ratchet handle, to get this fucker to move ! But move it did.....and off came the broken clutch hub....
This is a close-up of the holder in position....
and this is a wide shot showing how the whole shebang sits on the bench....
Once the OEM clutch hub was removed, I had a bit of a closer look at it, and the other complete clutch that came with this bike as spares.....
OEM hub - you can clearly see the 2 broken clutch-spring towers at the top of the picture....
and here is a shot of the rear of the OEM clutch hub......the reasons for including this will become clear shortly !
The OEM clutch hub looked basically identical to every other standard Kawasaki hub I have seen in the past, apart of course from the diameter and input-shaft spline pattern. The basic shape, spring towers and clutch springs/bolts, looked all very familiar....
Which was nothing at all like the other clutch hub !!
This one has got me stumped.
It has exactly the same dimensions as the OEM hub, but
looks nothing like it. It is a 2-part hub, the outer section has all the ridges which locate the steel plates, but this outer section slides over an inner section, where there are 3 ramp cutaways. It looks like some type of slipper-clutch or perhaps a back-torque limiting clutch ???? Fucked if I know really, it may well be a clutch hub out of either the ZX10 or even a ZX11 ? It fits exactly over the centre shaft, has the same spline pattern, same number of steel and fibre plates, the clutch springs are much longer and the spring-bolts are a 2-piece arrangement........here are some pics....
Unknown clutch hub outer section.
Unknown clutch hub inner section. You can clearly see the 3 sections where the small 'ramps' located on the inside of the outer section, locate here.
Here are the 2 sections together. The 3 small ramps in the outer section on the left are clearly visible....
This is a shot of the back of the unknown hub.....it looks nothing at all like the back of the OEM hub...
So there you go. I will need to have a good look through the ZX10 and ZZR1100 clutch pages on the KawasakiPartsWarehouse site, to try and work out what sort of clutch this is.....and what it belongs to ?
There are also some small detail differences in the spring pusher-plate......
OEM spring-plate. This one has 6 seperate cast holes for the clutch springs.....
Unknown spring-plate. This one has the 6 clutch-spring holes 'attached' in the casting to the plate....
Despite those detail differences, all the important dimensions are identical between the 2 plates, so I would assume that I should be able to use the complete unknown hub assembly in the engine, with some new friction plates and clutch springs.
It was a pretty interesting few hours mucking around with the clutch this afternoon......
Here are a couple more shots of some of the other things that are progressing. I stripped most of the paint from the wheels, but the paint on the cast part of the wheel is just not moving...
- no drama, it will just get painted over. During the stripping process though, the outer rim edge and the edges of the 'spokes' came up really nicely - so I am in two minds now....wether to just go with the OEM style of paint on the wheels - ie, completely black with no highlights......or mask up the edges of the spokes and the outer rims, and just paint the inner hub and rim sections in black ?? It may not be OEM, but I think it would actually look pretty good.........not sure which way to go with this yet....
Rear wheel.
Front wheel
Finally - a shot of the bodywork which has been tidied up and polished. It's not 100% perfect, but it has come up really good I think, so I will be happy to use these panels just as they are. The photo really does not show how shiny these babies came up ......
I also sprayed the sump and the cam-cover with some gloss-black engine enamel today, they look much tidier as a result. Still cleaning old gasket material off the motor, and still have a lot of degreasing and cleaning up of the motor before I can start bolting things up to it. Made a decent start on the big box of miscellaneous engine bolts, and managed to locate all the cam-cap bolts, cam caps and a few other fittings......but I haven't found all the sump bolts yet !!
Fucked if I know where they have gotten to.......
More to come next weekend ......