Ok... So I'm FAIRLY mechanically minded. LOL But this is just the oddest thing.
I got a set of gorgeous Mad Scientist Moto levers. Brake went on like a breeze, like they do.
So I get into the clutch. First problem, I can't get the darn thing off. it won't come out of the housing. So I look and look, and it seems that I have to remove the electrical housing. Huh...interesting. But that pops right off and VIOLA, the clutch lever comes out. Problem solved. So I put on the new lever. Wham, bam, thank you ma'am.
But wait. It's AWFULLY loosy goosy. What the heck? OH!!! BUSHING! Duh.
So I take it all apart again... And first, while we're at this lull in the story... do you have to have ELF HANDS to work for Kawasaki? My GOD are the spaces to get to fasteners small.
Anyway... I pull the thing apart again. I pull the bushing from the stock lever. I put the bushing into the MSM lever. I go to put the lever into the clutch lever housing. And it won't go in. Just won't go in. It's like the bushing is too tall. But the bushing JUST CAME OUT. How can it be too tall for a space it JUST CAME OUT OF? That doesn't make any sense.
So I pull the bushing by itself out of the lever, and for the LIFE OF ME, I cannot make that bushing slide into the clutch lever housing. It's like it's a fraction of a millimeter too tall.
WHAT am I missing? Is there some little screw somewhere that you loosen to get the housing in, that you tighten after its in? It slid right out. But it will NOT slide back in. There's no burring. It's a brand new bike.
I got a set of gorgeous Mad Scientist Moto levers. Brake went on like a breeze, like they do.
So I get into the clutch. First problem, I can't get the darn thing off. it won't come out of the housing. So I look and look, and it seems that I have to remove the electrical housing. Huh...interesting. But that pops right off and VIOLA, the clutch lever comes out. Problem solved. So I put on the new lever. Wham, bam, thank you ma'am.
But wait. It's AWFULLY loosy goosy. What the heck? OH!!! BUSHING! Duh.
So I take it all apart again... And first, while we're at this lull in the story... do you have to have ELF HANDS to work for Kawasaki? My GOD are the spaces to get to fasteners small.
Anyway... I pull the thing apart again. I pull the bushing from the stock lever. I put the bushing into the MSM lever. I go to put the lever into the clutch lever housing. And it won't go in. Just won't go in. It's like the bushing is too tall. But the bushing JUST CAME OUT. How can it be too tall for a space it JUST CAME OUT OF? That doesn't make any sense.
So I pull the bushing by itself out of the lever, and for the LIFE OF ME, I cannot make that bushing slide into the clutch lever housing. It's like it's a fraction of a millimeter too tall.
WHAT am I missing? Is there some little screw somewhere that you loosen to get the housing in, that you tighten after its in? It slid right out. But it will NOT slide back in. There's no burring. It's a brand new bike.
