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Thread: Deglazing centrifugal clutch shoes and drum. Bead blast and/or Scotchbrite pad?

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    Deglazing centrifugal clutch shoes and drum. Bead blast and/or Scotchbrite pad?

    The centrifugal clutch is just beginning to slip a bit on my 250ES. It's not bad and the trike is still totally rideable but I can tell that there's a bit more slippage than there should be and I'd like to address it now rather than waiting for it to get worse. This particular trike has kind of a hard life as a utility trailer puller around the yard as well as being used to entertain kids who don't fully understand the importance of downshifting when slowing down.
    I just took the C-clutch apart and everything really looks pretty good. The shoes have lots of friction material left and the drum is just barely grooved. I'd rather not throw a bunch of money at the machine right now so I was hoping that I could get away with just deglazing everything and putting it back together.
    I was thinking that I could bead blast the friction material on the shoes and scrub the drum with a Scotchbrite pad until it was roughed up a bit.
    Has anyone done anything similar here? It sounds like a good idea to me but it might be a bad idea in reality. I'm not sure about the bead blasting, there might be a better way. I figured I'd check here before I did anything. Thanks.

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    I don't think there is anything to deglaze. The C-clutch is a wet clutch and if its slipping, it needs a fresh set of shoes. There is no wear criteria in the book for the C-clutch so basically if its slipping, the shoes are done.

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    My advise is if you are going to open the motor up for any maintenance on the clutch, you might as well replace the C-clutch shoes and tranny clutch plates and be done with it for a long time.

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    In a perfect world I would but I have a lot of other projects that are soaking up my money at the moment. Taking the side cover off is a small job so I'm not really worried about the time involved.
    I'm not a clutch expert but I would think that the friction material in a wet clutch could get glazed over just like a dry clutch. It seems to me that breaking up the glazed surface would at least somewhat renew the shoes.

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