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Post by Mr. Wibbens »

It's been 6 or 7 years since I filed my basket, still looks pretty damn good to me :wink:

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Post by kdxmaniac »

tell em wibby! :grin:
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Post by KDX Butterfly »

filed your basket?
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Post by turtle »

As a recent graduate of the basket filing academy myself, I am glad to see this. Thanks, Wib.

Butterfly, others can speak better to this than me but the basket he's talking about is the clutch basket. Simply put, it holds the clutch plates. Over time it becomes notched and your clutch plates cannot move as freely and have a harder time releasing fully. This results in clutch drag. Filing the notches out of the basket eliminates the issue.
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Nay I say! :mrgreen:
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SS109 wrote:Nay I say! :mrgreen:
you just HAD to go and say that, didnt you? :busted: :lol:
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96 ktm 300
96 XR400R
07 hayabusa
77 kz 1000
85 goldwing 1200
02 BIG DOG PITBULL

gone but not forgotten
96 kdx 200
98 ktm 380 "because it dang near killed me!"
97 ktm 360
96 ktm 250
93 wr 250
94 dr 350s
93 kx 250
07 gsxr 1000
99 bandit 1200
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Post by dfeckel »

I just realized the last time I had my clutch apart that the shop manual for the E series KDX instructs that the last fiber plate (the one with the angled cuts into the fiber) goes into the notch at the top of the basket fingers, not aligned with the rest of the fibers. I see Mr. Wibbens's plates are not in that configuration, as are probably most of the E clutches out there. I was putting in my Dyna Ring at the time, so I didn't have a chance to assemble the clutch pack the recommended way to make a comparison. Does anybody think that it makes a difference?
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Post by Julien D »

I have had mine both ways. It does not seem to make any difference.
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