When trying to go in neutral it skips past and goes in to first.Hard to shift when trying to get neutral. shifts fine other then that..
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Your problem is being caused by a dragging clutch. This could be caused by a few things.
1. Clutch spring pressure out of adjustment.There is no spring pressure adjustment on this year Harley for the clutch.
2. Warped clutch plates. There are two types of plates, - steel (smooth plate) and - steel covered with friction material (fibered plate), that are staggered (stacked) alternately, that make up the clutch pack. Either one or both of these steel or the fibered plates could be warped, causing a clutch to drag. The usual cause of warpage is overheating because of slippage, and abuse of this slippage, such as trying to limp a bike home over some distance. However, if no abuse has been applied, then a splipping clutch will not usually cause warping.
3. Clutch cable has too much slack. If there is too much slack in the clutch cable adjustment, then the clutch is not being fully released (dragging), when you pull in the hand lever. The symtoms of a dragging clutch are hard stifting, a cluck or grinding of gears when shifting, and/or difficulty in finding neutral. I believe this may be your problem.
You should find the adjustment fitting (threaded hollow tube with locknut - that the end of your cluctch cable enters), where the cable travels into the transmission end cover, on the right side of the bike, behind the rear exhaust pipe.
Unscrew the lock nut, to allow adjustment of the cable, and turn the adjustment fitting tube counter clockwise to unscrew it. This will take up the slck in the inner cable attached to the hand lever. You should leave about an eight on and inch of free travel in the cltch cable, then tighten the locknut on the adjuster.
If this does not correct the dragging clutch, you will need to replace the clutch fibered drive plates.
Untill you can schedule this parts replacement, you can help to find nuetral, by shifting to nuetral while the bike is still rolling instead of coming to a complete stop. Also to help eliminate the clunk, when shifting, pull in the clutch lever, and rev the engine a couple of times while shift grears.
SOURCE: Shifts hard into 1st. When stopped hard to find neutral
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this is most likely caused from a wearing clutch. when the clutch is held in there are a series of clutch plates that seperate. and allow ease of drive force from the main shaft to the counter shaft. but if the plates get worn they tend to not disengage as well. and the gears do not engage as easily and finding neutral can be hard to find or impossible to do sometimes.
to fix this the clutch plates both the fibers and steels need to be inspected for warpage. im sure you will find the fault there. thank you.
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Have you always used the full synthetic amsoil? Has this problem been around longer than the synthetic oil use?
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If I am correct the warrior models have hydraulic clutches and as such aren't really adjustable. You will usually get a lever adjustment at the handlebars, although this is more to adjust the lever to your finger length. If you wind this adjuster so the lever is as far out as possible you will get more clutch travel which may help you.
It does sound like your clutch is dragging to me, it would explain your symptoms. This can be caused by 3 things:
1. Not enough separation of clutch plates. On a hydraulic system this should not happen unless you have air in the system. Bleed your clutch and see if it improves. You should feel a difference at the lever after bleeding if air was the problem.
2. Warped plates. These will mean that the plates will drag even with full stroke on the clutch as the plates become "thicker" as far as clutch operation goes. You can pull them out and check them on something very flat, a piece of glass is best. See if you can see gaps anywhere around the plates. Replace them all if you do.
3. Engine oil causing extra drag. If the wrong kind of oil is used it can imact the operation of wet clutches that you find in motorbikes. If this problem occurred since your last oil change then it could be the culprit. Change the oil and also remove the clutch plates and clean them of the old oil. Then soak them in the new oil before reinstalling.
If you don't abuse your clutch then it's most likely either number 1 or number 3. If you do abuse your clutch a bit then number 2 can't be ruled out. Start by bleeding it since this is the cheapest and easiest to do, and the most likely cause in my experience. Also bear in mind that you may have all 3 of these problems, although it's not likely, especially on a fairly new bike.
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clutch is fine but shifting in or out of gears is either hard or real easy and when in a gear it slips out .case fluid is fine but really having trouble with this .really dont want to tear it apart if not needed .im thinking its a bad shifting fork of some sort
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