Burgman 400 CVT issue  By  danno (Read 8,315 times)

Are we talking the clutch bell itself or where the clutch bearing rides in the CVT cover? Too fast an idle, revving the engine while stopped with the rear brake applied, creeping along at 5 mph and a clogged CVT air filter can all cause the clutch bell to overheat along with worn out or slipping clutch shoes. The bearing will turn its socket in the CVT cover blue if it is past time to replace it.

How many miles are on the bike?

That is your clutch pads causing that they must be slipping pretty bad. I have never seen one that bad.
Alleyoop

That can be caused by a high idle condition (does the wheel spin up while on the center stand with the engine idling?), slow speed riding below 10 mph (like when creeping though neighborhoods or cemeteries to go sightseeing) which keeps the clutch constantly slipping, revving the engine to hold position while at a traffic stop instead of using the brake or from worn out clutch shoes (does the engine speed up wildly when you give it hard throttle or just rev a bit and dig in solidly giving steady acceleration?).

You need to tell us which applies along with how many miles are on the bike. You also need to pull the clutch bell off and inspect the clutch shoes and see if they are worn out.

Hard to comprehend a clutch worn out on a Burgman 400 in only 11,500 miles. One would expect 50,000+ miles before you got to that point. Are you the original owner? If not possibly the previous owner like to sit at stoplights gunning the engine against the brakes heating up the clutch. If you can get a look at how worn the clutch shoes are and find that they have plenty of material left you can run that until they are worn down however you may just want to remove the nut and pull the clutch bell so you can clean things out. If the bell is still in the correct thickness range for continued use and the shoes are good then cleaning may get you going for 20,000 or so miles.

What year is your 400?

If you can turn a wrench you can fix it yourself. A shop is going to charge you big bucks for a new clutch plus labor, you will be lucky to walk out of there at $300.00 bucks and that is just for the clutch and labor. It all depends on what they replace, If they replace the whole clutch assembley sell your house, if they replace the clutch and bell sell the car.
All you really need is a new clutch and to replace it is very easy.
You can buy your own clutch and put it on. From the looks of it through the bell holes it looks like you have a clutch with more than 3 pads: So if your going to do it yourself you need to take the bell off and see which type you have.
Like this one, has 5 pads.

www.racingplanetusa.com/clutch-suzuki-burgman-9806-p-140814-1.html?utm_source=google&utm_medium=google_merchant_us&utm_campaign=google_products_us&gclid=Cj0KEQjwx4yfBRCt2rrAs-P5vtkBEiQAOdFXbQE7wbc1vR7HktOYkQbXTophjILoyVeJ_R30UzppQ8saAosm8P8HAQ#.U-Po5mNLtAM

Here is another one this one has only 3 pads:

www.sip-scootershop.com/EN/Products/C10324/Clutch+Standard+for+SUZUKI+.aspx?gpc_origin=pla&gpc_feed_alias=us&gpc_pid=C10324&gclid=Cj0KEQjwx4yfBRCt2rrAs-P5vtkBEiQAOdFXbbKMzPWLBzIAfG5czwG0d7DHWg8vBE0RpWfUNelrOXQaAjIm8P8HAQ

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