Possible clutch noise / rattle

My 1980 kz750, 22,500 miles, has a fairly loud noise coming from the right side of the engine. I think it's coming from the clutch.

Are these bikes known to have a lot of clutch rattle when the bike's warmed up ?? Is there a specific part, or parts that are known for doing this ??

There is a guy on the KZ650 site that sells clutch basket dampers. I bought a set but haven't installed them yet... forums.kz650.info/index.php?topic=4820.0

Bumping and old thread here as it seems the dampers are stuffed in all my clutches, tool steel would probably be softer than the rock hard dampers in mine. I checkedout the kz650 forum but can't see any pictures.

Have you got around to fitting it yet? (no probs, often i hoard bits for years before fitting them)

Apart from this geezer in Australia, anyone else doing clutch damper inserts? I take it these were never available as a factory part only as a clutch basket assembly?

You are correct, they were never available separately. That's probably because installation requires removing the old studs and welding in (or otherwise fastening in) new ones.

You may want to check out the following posting. This guy makes new ones out of Viton. I believe his email address is turbosteve84@verizon.net. Ed

forums.kz650.info/index.php?topic=4820.msg130663#msg130663

No eBay APP ID and/or Cert ID defined in Kunena configurationI found these on EBay as well. Hope this helps.....