Kitulu
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on my S650 GT with the Steeda spring.
It gets my vote for, "Task that should have been easier than it was." To preface, I work on cars, airplanes, helicopters, etc. I've performed much more difficult tasks in tighter spaces. All of the install videos said it was a simple procedure:
I pulled the spring halfway out when the vice grips slipped and the spring and perch hardware went sproinging around the foot well.
Installing the new spring was an exercise in frustration... trying to angle my body to use both arms while keeping the perch hardware from falling out... retrieving the hardware after one or the other fell out... trying to get a good angle to hold the clutch down while getting the top perch in the correct spot...
Bro-Tip: Compress the spring and hold it with zipties on each side. This gives you more room that trying to hold it with vice grips. After the assembly is installed, cut and remove the zipties with diagonal cutters.
The feel is not heavier or lighter, exactly. It is more linear through the range of travel.
Went on a long drive down to St. Augustine yesterday, so got some freeway traffic mixed in with some stop-and-go town traffic. The clutch runs a lot smoother throughout the range of travel, and I have a better feel for where the engagement point is, so my shifts are much less jerky in the 1-2-3 range.
It gets my vote for, "Task that should have been easier than it was." To preface, I work on cars, airplanes, helicopters, etc. I've performed much more difficult tasks in tighter spaces. All of the install videos said it was a simple procedure:
- Push clutch pedal in.
- Compress spring with needle nose vice grips.
- Pull spring.
- Transfer stock perch hardware to new spring.
- Install new spring.
I pulled the spring halfway out when the vice grips slipped and the spring and perch hardware went sproinging around the foot well.
Installing the new spring was an exercise in frustration... trying to angle my body to use both arms while keeping the perch hardware from falling out... retrieving the hardware after one or the other fell out... trying to get a good angle to hold the clutch down while getting the top perch in the correct spot...
Bro-Tip: Compress the spring and hold it with zipties on each side. This gives you more room that trying to hold it with vice grips. After the assembly is installed, cut and remove the zipties with diagonal cutters.
The feel is not heavier or lighter, exactly. It is more linear through the range of travel.
Went on a long drive down to St. Augustine yesterday, so got some freeway traffic mixed in with some stop-and-go town traffic. The clutch runs a lot smoother throughout the range of travel, and I have a better feel for where the engagement point is, so my shifts are much less jerky in the 1-2-3 range.
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