Hello all, this is one of my first posts and i'm hoping to get some much needed help. So I have a recently new to me 1998 vmax 1200 with 17000 miles on it. Soon after I bought it i noticed the clutch was slipping slightly when i gave it more than half throttle. So i rode it as it was for a day or 2, then after about a 30min ride I noticed it was slipping a lot more anytime I gave it any throttle, on the way home I tried to just slowly make it home and long story short I fried my clutch. I was unable to move the bike at all with the bike in gear and the clutch lever completely out. So I towed it home and pulled off the clutch cover and saw tons of burnt clutch pieces and it reeked of burning clutch. I ordered a barnett clutch kit with the pressure plate 6 spring conversion. I replaced all of the friction plates and steel plates as well as the pressure plate. I could not get the pressure rod #2 according to the manual to fully seat inside the middle hole with the steel ball behind it. After a lot of cursing and drinks I got to thinking that maybe the pushrod #1 behind it wasnt fully pushed in. So I opened the clutch bleeder valve and got an allen key inside where the pushrod was (in the middle of that hex nut with the little ears on it) and I pushed and the pushrod moved in. So I reinstalled that steel ball and the #2 pushrod and voila it was seated. I threw the pressure plate on and the springs (gold ones that came with the kit) and torqued them to specs (about 5ft lbs-6ft lbs) and put everything back on. Also changed the oil with castrol rotella 15w-40 NON SYNTHETIC HEAVY DUTY TRUCK OIL which I have read is a good oil. I bled the clutch and made sure everything was good and took it for a ride. For about 5-10min it was good the clutch lever released closer to the handle bar grip which was a good feel. After those 10min the clutch started releasing further away from the handle bars and it started slipping again.... So I rode back home and parked it and ordered some heavy duty springs for the clutch to hopefully cure the slipping( green springs for the barnett pn 501-82-06023). I am going to put them on today and hopefully fix the slipping, if not I am open to suggestions because I am not sure what is the problem..... Would appreciate some advice or insight on this issue. Thanks guys.
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