Howdy! New member, new owner, and a question

[JohnnyRockit]

Hi everyone, I’m John from Dallas and I picked up my first ZR-1 yesterday. It is a 1991, red/red with 22,000 miles and looks to have no mods.

I flew into Detroit yesterday morning, went to Discount Tire to replace the original Goodyears (didn’t trust 24-year-old tires for the trip) and hit the road back to Dallas. I did a little over 800 miles yesterday, so 400 to go today.

I have maintenance records and receipts from every trip to the dealer from day 1. The “Service LTPWS” and an occasional “Service Ride Control” message comes on, but I tried to read through the archives on the site over the last week, so I have a pretty good idea where to start with those. No radio sound as well...

The question I have has to do with the clutch operation. The clutch engages at the very top of the pedal travel, I mean if I touch that pedal with my foot I can induce slip. When driving down the highway at say 1800 rpm, if I accelerate, I can see the revs climb about 400 rpm momentarily and then drop back down. So, what do you think, worn disc, bad clutch cylinder, bad fluid?

From the maintenance records, I’d say it is on it 3rd or 4th clutch master cylinder at this point…so it looks like every few years they addressed some issue with the clutch.

Let me know where I should start and I hope to meet some of you!


John