Adjusting Clutch
 

Hi, my 00 SVs's clutch is giving me some grief, In first gear with the clutch in, the bike will creep forward at a reasonable pace if i let off the brakes. I tried adjusting the cable up at the handlebars but it didnt make any appreciable difference. When going from neutral into first the lever dances a bit unless you click it in firmly, and from first to second it sometimes pops out into neutral unless you click it in hard.
It's worst in the mornings when the oil is cold, once it warms up it goes away a bit, but its still a pain in the ****.
Anyone know what i need to adjust to sort it out. the actuator down by the front sprocket looks a bit different to the one on my bandit and i dont want to make a balls of it.

Yeh mines been doing it for a while as well.
Has nobody got any ideas. :(

That's what was happening to mine. I went to adjust it and the cable snapped. Check the cable before you do any big journeys. I was lucky, mine snapped as I got to work and I managed to get trailored home. It's easy to fit a new one. They cost £10.97 for original Suzuki parts and take about 45 mins to fit.

Any major clutch adjustments should be done at the sprocket end with the worm gear (not the barrell adjuster).

Thanks I shal give it a go.

new cable it is then, as the worm gear is as far in as it'll go while still leaving some thread for the locknut

check the adjustment down at the bottom end too.

Remove sprocket cover, clean any gunge from the area, preferably remove the mechanism (2 fixings) and clean+grease the helix, undo the locknut and adjust centre screw so it just takes up the slack onto the pushrod when the lever/cable angle is a bit less than 90deg.

Don't overtighten either of the mounting bolts or the centre locknut. Stripped/sheared bolts here are a pain! Gentle nip is all.

You want the clutch operation range to be more or less equally each side of 90deg. (simpler to see in reality than to describe).

Then adjust the cable (use both the cable adjusters at the bottom end and at the handle-bar end) to give a few mm of free travel at the lever.

http://www.sv650.org/sv_manuals.htm