Maybe one day I'll get a new clutch basket for it, I know the springs are loose,,, but for now I don't need it.
As an FYI... 4 of the 6 springs are
always loose, if it is anything like the Suzuki clutches I mentioned earlier. They engage sequentially to provide a progressive resistance to the torque pulses. They are also of different spring rates, with the shorter ones being heavier. The two longest springs should be slightly preloaded when installed.
When Vstrom people were noticing clutch chudder, some of the earliest backyard hack mechanics were jamming washers into the spaces to try to alleviate the symptoms. The real noise and chudder was because the retaining plates were coming loose and floating under torque. A couple of different guys now rework the baskets, replacing the rivets that hold the retaining plates on with some Allen head bolts.
But even on those, which got so bad you could feel the driveline vibration at certain rpms, they seldom ever resulted in any serious problems. Can't recall any stories of clutches fragging due to loose parts.
I belive the throttlebody stop screw needs to be cranked a bit so I can get the real idle adjust in middle of its stroke.
No! Don't mess with the 4 mechanical stop screws. The linkage should never actually hit those screws, ever. They are just set to prevent the butterflies from ever getting closed so far that hey jam or score into the throttle bore.
The way to get the idle adjust into the center of its range is to use the four air screws that you use to sync the TBs together. You can open all 4 screws or close all four screws the same amount to affect the idle speed with your idle adjuster pre-set to mid range. The idle speed adjuster is just another air bypass on your 2nd Gen bike.
Once you are happy with idle speed just resync to the one(s) with median vacuum to maintain about the same idle speed.
I wrote up a procedure several years ago on how you can adjust the throttle mechanical linkage called the "Really Completely UnAuthorized TBS", that you should be able to find on here if you want to give that a go.
