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alright sounds good, i'll search around for a manual so i don't screw anything up. lol

Alright, well i finally found time to go out and start taking it apart to see what happened.. pulled the cover and pressure plate off and went to take the adjuster out and luckily, the ball and push rod was welded to the adjuster and got them all out in one piece.. as apposed to them being stuck inside the shaft. From here so far what i have bought is a new push rod, ball, and a pancake bearing with the adjuster, so i'm just waiting for them to be shipped to my house.. like i said before though, this is the first time that i've owned a clutch atv so i'm not sure how this all works entirely... i'd imagine all i'd have to do is just replace the rod, ball, and adjuster (with pancake bearing) and readjust it so the actuator arrow and tension point arrow on the case meet up, and be good to go... or is there more work normally required?

yeah, this is the first time i've owned a clutch atv so i wasn't really aware that something like this could happen... the design sounds pretty stupid to me but whatever, now i'm aware that i can't coast with the clutch held in for a extended period of time like that. I will be getting the pancake bearing though whenever i go to fix it up. weather is pretty shit right now though so i'm just waiting for a reasonable time to take it apart and check it out.

ah, wonderful lol.. alright, i'll pull the cover off and try to see if i can confirm... yeah, i know the basics and can find my way around. thanks for the replys

just another bit of probably useless info.. when the clutch went out, i was pretty well slowed down. it just gave out probably about 5 seconds too soon before i was planning to make a turn around.

Hey, so i just bought this 1998 banshee.. i've been riding it for about a month now and have seen no noticeable problems with it. However, as i took it for a ride yesterday evening about an hour or so into the ride I decided to go ahead back to the house and park it for the day, so I pulled in the clutch and shifted from 3rd down to 1st and held the clutch lever in as i put on the brake to slow down and turn around back to the house... well when i did that, it seems the clutch went out on me and I heard the RPM shoot up while i was still holding in the clutch (and of course a pull on the bike from the clutch giving out)... and now when i pull the clutch lever, there's no pressure what so ever and when i try to pull it out of neutral with the clutch lever held in, you just get a light kick (like you would with not holding it in at all and just trying to shift into 1st that way). I'd of course not want to ride it anyway as it is but i did check to see what'd happen anyway... when the clutch lever is pulled, you can see the actuator moving accordingly. I know i'm going to most likely going to have to take it apart to see for sure what the problem is.. i've also tried tightening the clutch cable up by the lever (which did bring back the "pressure" to the clutch lever) but i still got the same problem... I pull in the clutch lever and try to pull out of neutral and it acts as if i'm not pulling in the clutch at all. I was just wondering if maybe someone who knows more about the mechanics of these things could give me an idea as to what might be wrong with it before i go ahead and tear it apart looking blindly for a problem... p.s. sorry for the long post, i'm sure there's alot of useless info and probably some stuff that i'm missing.