New Clutch

[old son]

My Gen 1 has now covered about 73,000 miles and it smells like the clutch is hot or burning after my ride home, around 11 miles. Its the smell you get following a lorry up a hill. The clutch is not slipping. Do I need to think about buying new plates and if I do what do you suggest I buy? Is fitting a new clutch an easy job? I presumably need a gasket and both friction and metal plates? Anything else?

[Dead Eye]

Can't comment whether you need to or not but;

Fitting is easy, gasket is recommended and both friction and metal plates are generally a good idea. If your metal plates are in good condition you could get away with just replacing the friction ones, but I would personally replace them all.

Make a note of the order they come out in and soak the new plates in oil for a few hours before fitting and don't forget to adjust the clutch cable and the clutch side before final adjustments are made at the lever

[old son]

Can't comment whether you need to or not but;

Fitting is easy, gasket is recommended and both friction and metal plates are generally a good idea. If your metal plates are in good condition you could get away with just replacing the friction ones, but I would personally replace them all.

Make a note of the order they come out in and soak the new plates in oil for a few hours before fitting and don't forget to adjust the clutch cable and the clutch side before final adjustments are made at the lever

Thanks, that's the bit I have never read about. Is there somewhere I could read how to do this? It's not on Pat's site.

[Dead Eye]

Fazer Clutch Replacement

This is for the 600, but the process should be practically identical for the thousand

Edit: Just noticed the red, highlighted section of my quote haha

I'm not entirely certain for the thou as I've never had to do it (so far), but I'll endeavour to get out and have a look today for you and report back. It shouldn't be difficult and by looking at the mechanism it should be easier than the 600

[solorider]

I did my clutch on my thou last year with 72k miles on the clocks, mine wasn't smelling or slipping, I couldn't get neutral very easy if at all with the engine running, my steel plate looked ok, I would use new clutch springs though as mine were shorter than new ones, genuine springs are slightly cheaper than ebc ones, I used ebc clutch plates, I did buy genuine but I could not get them to fit!!

[Dead Eye]

Not sure about the thou (sorry!) but I stay away from EBC springs as 90% of the cases with the 600 have reverted immediately (including myself) - they are too stiff. The EBC plates should be fine however

[old son]

Thanks for your input guys. I was thinking of using OEM. Its lasted 73k miles so it cant be bad??