hi all,

my friend has just brought himself a 04 gas gas txt pro, the clutch is stupidly stiff to pull in, was wondering if any one else has had this problem or noes what it could be. i have drained the system and bled it with new fluid just incase it was some thing simple along with changing the gear box oil. any help would be very appreciated

thanks

lee

Had this problem on a 2004 last week, turned out the clutch plates had swollen. The complete pack was only 0.2mm out. But that's was enough to cause the problem. Fired another clutch in and all was good

Check the hose isn't trapped or damaged. Also make sure your using the correct oil Dextron II. other oils have been known to damage the rubber seal in the clutch.

If you replace the clutch pack with a DP clutch from GGUK, dont use ATF, it swells the clutch pack and you'll be back to square one.

hi all,

my friend has just brought himself a 04 gas gas txt pro, the clutch is stupidly stiff to pull in, was wondering if any one else has had this problem or noes what it could be. i have drained the system and bled it with new fluid just incase it was some thing simple along with changing the gear box oil. any help would be very appreciated

thanks

lee

You actually need to just replace one or two steel plates with thinner ones. This brings the cutch pack in to the correct hieght. Any Gas Gas dealer should fix you right up.

If you replace the clutch pack with a DP clutch from GGUK, dont use ATF, it swells the clutch pack and you'll be back to square one.

HI i have a 05 280 with a dp clutch and have always used atf with no problems in 7 years

ok so pre 05 you shouldnt use atf, what oil should i use?

Rebuilt an o7 250...put a new dph clutch why we were at it.... we then added atf oil and it made terrible noise...after racking our brains thinking we put something back wrong we noticed on the clutch box a big white sticker stating "do not use ATF oil !!!" put normal bike gear oil in and it's all fine no noise