feedback on grizzly clutch

[pat the rat]

just done a re-grease to my clutch on my grizzly the other day.tried it out today. looks like i lost a bit of top end and it seems like it revs a little less. would having to much or not enough greasecause this.any help would be great.

 

[sparky660]

With to much grease the rollers cannot go all the way to the end of the groove. As a result the belt won't go all the way to outer edge of the pulley. This will reduce your top speed. I would say that you have to much.

 

[cabman]

You only need i tablespoon per roller, no more.

 

[pat the rat]

i put on about 150 miles since i greased it and now it seems like its ok. my revs are back to normal and so is my speed. maybe it needed to settle itself. before i greased it i asked my dealer and he told me i needed about half the grease jar that yamaha sells.its good for two re grease . i was concerned cause i thought i had put to much.

 

[sparky660]

You probably forced the grease out of the grooves allowing the weights to shift out to there farthest.

 

[SledderSteve]

Thanks for the report

 

[Hatchers]

before i greased it i asked my dealer and he told me i needed about half the grease jar that yamaha sells.its good for two re grease . i was concerned cause i thought i had put to much.

Sounds like that guy needs some more training . Using half the griz grease on the primary rollers is waaaaaaaaaay to much

As the guy above said - about a table spoon per roller should do fine. I like to lightly coat the rollers and roller surface areas, then tab a spoonful or so on each roller. Don’t worry about making it look pretty, it will just heat up and pack even.

 

[pat the rat]

well ive put about 400 miles since and it seems ok. i thought that half the jar was alot so i put about 1/3 of it.it did look like alot but i never greased one before so i went with the dealer's input. can this cause me problems down the road.

 

[SledderSteve]

As you know from having it apart, there's plenty of areas inside the clutch for the extra grease to hide. The only problem you may find down the road is cleaning out that extra grease the next time you have the clutch apart.

Otherwise, you should be good to go.

 

[pat the rat]

hey,thanks man,seems like everybody that i asked about this couldnt answer me.i love this site,the people on this site are really helpful.

 

[SledderSteve]

No problem,

We're not currently strong in number but I'd like to think we make up for it in heart.

I spent about 5 hours doing the clutch on my '05 as I sunk it last Fall and didn't get around to working on it until this Spring. I won't even get into how the float in the carb stuck and drained all the gas into the engine and airbox.

The clutch looked like a dried up mud wasp nest. I finally had to resort to using a pressure washer to clean out all of the nooks and crannys. Had to use a Scotch-brite pad on each of the inner rollers to get them all smooth and shiny again.

It was not pretty but the bike runs great now.

Guess I qualify as the "Before" picture on a preventative maintenance poster.