Hi all,i've recently acquire a multi 1000 ds. Just got it running for the first time and was concerned by the noise from the clutch! Now I know they are rattly,but! It sounds fine when ticking over,but when I pull the clutch lever in,there is a graunchy rattling sound.is this normal?! I"ve had the cover off and taken the plates off and everything looks fine.I presume the springs should be tightened right in? I tried it up the lane and it seemed fine. Please advise!
If it looks fine and feels fine then i'm guessing it's fine. All dry clutches sound worse with the clutch pulled in, the plates get more room to rattle about. Might be an idea to check the service limits on the clutch plate fingers and basket and mating part of the basket. If they've taken a beating the plates get more room to move about too.
Yes, try the quiet clutch mod, dead simple to do. Usual way is to acquire one or two old friction plates and put them in first, under the rest of the stack, rather than having a plain plate at the bottom, as standard. Before doing this, take a alook at the level of the stack inside the basket and then try and get close to that level by using either one or two plates at the bottom. Some people find its one, others two. I only needed one. However, a mate of mine simply used his existing plates and re-ordered them by putting a friction plate in first and reckons the clutch works perfectly. The reason it works is that the plain plate basket slots are machined with a square, flat bottom to the slot but the friction plate slots have a rounded, curved bottom to the slots. Normally, with the plain plates in first, the friction plates sit on top and never reach the rounded portion of the slot but if you put one or two friction plates in first, they do. This means the bottom plate jams in the bottom of the slot, damping the whole stack and preventing it from banging backwards and forwards and destroying both the plates and the basket in fairly short order. A quiet clutch that lasts much longer - win, win!
