Where is my clutch lifter rod?

[skiri251]

My clutch disassembly saga continues.

As some of you know, I removed the engine for stator replacement.
In a process, I needed to remove the clutch cover. The manual says I should remove the "clutch lifter rod" (attached pic from the service manual page 9-2).
I didn't see it in there!
I thought it was somewhere inside the "lifter piece".
Removed the lifter piece, release bearing, lifter plate but the rod is NOT there!?

Is it possible some one before me lost it?
Does the clutch function normally without the "lifter rod"?

It is a big enough part it's hard to believe I lost it when I removed the clutch cover...

 

[mcgovern61]

You may have lost it when you pulled the clutch cover (or it is still on the floor.) If you cannot find it, I may have one.

 

[Steve83]

I know the '83 doesn't use one, might be the same on the '82. Look at the release lever in the cover - if it has a cup on a flat spring that moves in & out, you need the rod. If it's a flat disk that moves in & out, it presses against the "lifter piece" and no rod is used.

 

[skiri251]

Here's mine looks like.

I hope this is the flat one.
I looked up parts on BikeBandit for '82. The schematic shows the rod (#11) but the parts list does NOT.
I guess this means no rod on '82?

 

[dan filipi]

That's the same as mine on the 83. No lifter rod.

 

[skiri251]

Thanks!
Phew.