Motorcycle Repair: dragging clutch, clutch adjustment, clutch basket

Question
Chris,
This may be a bit outside your realm, but my wife has a '72 Triunmph Daytona with a dragging clutch. I recently completed a rebuild on the transmission, which went well, but now the clutch won't fully disengage. I can turn the adjuster screw all the way in and it will be moslty disengaged most of the time, but it still isn't as free to roll as it is in neutral. The clutch lever is much stiffer than it should be.   
The clutch on the Daytona looks like it operates the same as other bikes I've messed with from the seventies and eighties. Any ideas or suggestions you might have would be greatly appreciated. My bike is running and I'm hearing it from the wife that hers isn't.
Thanks,
  Dennis

Answer
Hi Dennis.

I'm not very famliar with the particulars of British bikes, but many bikes from that era had 3 adjustment points;
1) Clutch freeplay at the lever end
2) Clutch adjustment at the clutch end
3) Clutch tension on the crankcase directly in line with the clutch basket on one side or the other.

The clutch tension adjustment will look like a big recessed screw on the side of the engine cover.

Check your repair manual for the details on the adjustment for that as well.

It could also be that the new plates and springs just need to be broken in.  Also, your wife was used to riding the bike with the old clutchplates and they were on the way out, so the new ones could just be more than she was used to, but I am not sure of that.  Give a call to a local Triumph shop and ask them there to be certain.

I wish that I could be more help to you.
Good luck and ride safe.
FALCON