Husky250
02-06-2015, 06:34 PM
My poor DX has had a horribly slipping clutch since I got it in '03 or so. A couple years ago I put a clutch in it but that didn't help any. She doesn't see much use (outside of winter) since I have been training for either the Boston Marathon or Ironman since about 2007 or so. Well I finally got the wife to allow me to buy a new centrifugal off a timberwolf. ('bout time, we actually bought the dx for her). So yesterday I pull off the side case in prep of putting the clutch in today. I pull the side case and the shifter arm doesn't look right. SO I pull off the larger part and determine there is a large chunk missing... HMMMM where the heck is the rest of it? I fish around in there the best I can, and the first thing I come up with is a rock.... inside my motor. Really? How did my motor get a rock in it? Well there is a spot of JB weld on it from the previous owner. I assume The rock got in there when they owned it. Finally I find the smaller part (see picture) of the shift arm. Last winter the thing refused to shift out of 1st gear when I put it on the rack for the summer. When I pulled it down to ride it a month ago it shifted fine (other than that clutch slip). SO for the last 12 years there has been a rock floating around in the bottom end and I can only assume that for the last 7 or 8 months the broken part of the arm was also floating around in the bottom end. I found some shifter/clutch parts on fleabay for $16 and they are on order. I came in the house and looked at the daughter and said, "Today today today.... I consider myself myself myself... the luckiest man man man... On the face of the Earth Earth Earth!" That my friends is the Honest to God's Truth!