Shoulder issue with cleans

[Gerrich]

Rip,

I have a shoulder issue which occurs as I clean anything over 80kg. It is a sharp pain in the left front/medial deltoid on the pull that causes me to loose control of (drop) the weight. I have already tried a significant deload and working back up but same problem. It is not a lasting injury. I cannot even isolate the the pain doing other exercises. I have a similar issue with pullups, but not chins or other grips.

Do you have any ideas what this might be. Otherwise I am just going to have to limit my cleans.

[Mark Rippetoe]

Have you varied your grip width?