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Old 06-Sep-2005, 15:29
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Help wiv me clutch ???

My clutch slave cylinder went pop the other week...so I got a nice STM one from Cornerspeed. So far so good.

Except. I can't get enough clutch actuation out of it to disengage the clutch fully. I've bled it until I'm blue in the face using all types of tips and tricks suggested by the lads on Sunday's rideout and I haven't seen a single bubble in the fluid for ages, but full actuation is still not happening.

When I first put it on the bike and bled it through the clutch lever locked solid and I mean "can't-budge-this-thing-a-millimetre" solid. That would indicate to me that with absolutely no sponginess at the lever there was no air in the lines or the master/slave cylinders.

The reason that the lever went solid was that my bike was registered in 2001. The instructions said to use a pushrod spacer for bikes up to model year 2000, but I left it out because I didn't think I would need it. What this meant was that the slave piston pushed out far enough to meet up with the casting boss where the actuator rod goes through, hence the lever locking solid. So, I put the spacer rod in and it all worked - up to the point I've mentioned. Now it seems that the spacer isn't quite long enough because the full travel of the piston still isn't enough to disengage the clutch.

Any ideas
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