My XJ600 ran fine, but it had a problem shifting out of gear into neutral. In order to get it into neutral, we needed to give it a pretty hard rocking back and forth to get it to finally slip into neutral. After talking to a few guys, I decided to change the clutch cable on it. Now it switches to neutral just fine, but the clutch cable was about an inch longer than the old one (found out after putting it on).
My new issue is this: shifting is fine, but now no amount of clutch will keep it sitting still. In neutral it sits and hums like a champ. I've tinkered with the stops at the lever and down by the bottom connector as far as where the bolts are and how far out the stop is, but I either have a really loose clutch (the spring doesn't retract the clutch cable completely), or it's so tight that it might as well be in a permanent clutch.
No matter where it's at, I can't shift it into first. So I took off the cover next to the clutch and watched a couple videos. I decided that the teeth on the push rod weren't in the right place and it wasn't catching when the clutch lever was pulled. So I turned it so that it was between 7 and 8 o'clock, lined up with the teeth on the outside lever. I can hear it catching when I manually push it, but it doesn't seem to actually engage the clutch.
So now I'm sitting inside with a bike that ran fine, but had a hard time shifting to neutral, but now doesn't leave neutral without kicking forward a foot and dying. Any advice?
Final Note: I am not tech saavy, I figured a clutch cable would be an easy fix, but I'm thinking this is going to be more work than I've ever done on a motorcycle.
