Squeal or sweak letting out the clutch

[txrider]

Dri-Slide could work. It's moly suspended in a solvent which evaporates and leaves only a dry moly deposit.

[Guest Nogbad]

I will use chain lube. A little on the plates will likely hurt nothing. If it does, what have I lost?  I can clean the plates.

 

If you wait, you risk notching the tranny input hub. That costs as much as the clutch plates.

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I don't do a lot of urban miles, and don't have a history of keeping bikes forever. If I do notch the input hub slightly, what effect will that have?

 

I don't agree that you can clean plates that have been contaminated with lubricant. It soaks in and then cokes with the heat of clutch slip, glazing the plates and rendering them useless.

 

A dry clutch is just that - dry. Some dry type lube on the splines should be a good idea, but any kind of sticky lube will attract lining dust and may end up causing the plates to stick on the hub.

 

Feel free to disagree, but so what if the input hub lasts only the same time as a set of plates.