auto5man
09-03-2013, 12:47 PM
Hi All,
Some of you may have been reading my posts in the new member forum....picking it back up over here as it seems like a more appropriate place to post these long winded questions and discussions.
Okay, so I have the clutch off and the primary driven gear off. The gearshift drum stopper part seems okay but the gearshift drum will only rotate two gears and seems to hang up in the middle. Still does this even after I remove the drum stopper and the shift spindle from the crankcase. I even took the star looking part (drum stopper plate) off and the neutral indicator shaft off from the other side....shift drum still won't rotate freely beyond the two years.
So I'm scratching my head trying to figure it out....found this other part that fell out of the case when I took the right cover off and couldn't figure out where it went:
176614
So I got to looking a little closer and figured out that this little part had broken off in the crankcase at the threaded end. My service manual pictures were not very clear and didn't show this even as a separate part in the parts breakdown diagram (that seemed a little odd). Here is a couple pictures of the case:
176615
and close up:
176616
The pin side of this little broken part notches into the shift spindle assembly into the "shift return spring" assembly area. Not sure exactly what the function is but I'm assuming this spring action returns the foot shifter back to 'zero' after shifting. If that's the case then my other problem of the shift drum only going through two gears won't be solved by fixing this part. And that brings up the next question....is this part even fixable (getting that broken bit of bolt off from the case does not look easy, and if was able to I sure havn't seen that little part for sale)? Or am I left now with getting a new right side crankcase. What are my options to tackle this problem?
Hopefully my post and questions are clear, I tend to get wrapped up in the problem I'm focused on and don't always include all the information someone else needs to help.
Some of you may have been reading my posts in the new member forum....picking it back up over here as it seems like a more appropriate place to post these long winded questions and discussions.
Okay, so I have the clutch off and the primary driven gear off. The gearshift drum stopper part seems okay but the gearshift drum will only rotate two gears and seems to hang up in the middle. Still does this even after I remove the drum stopper and the shift spindle from the crankcase. I even took the star looking part (drum stopper plate) off and the neutral indicator shaft off from the other side....shift drum still won't rotate freely beyond the two years.
So I'm scratching my head trying to figure it out....found this other part that fell out of the case when I took the right cover off and couldn't figure out where it went:
176614
So I got to looking a little closer and figured out that this little part had broken off in the crankcase at the threaded end. My service manual pictures were not very clear and didn't show this even as a separate part in the parts breakdown diagram (that seemed a little odd). Here is a couple pictures of the case:
176615
and close up:
176616
The pin side of this little broken part notches into the shift spindle assembly into the "shift return spring" assembly area. Not sure exactly what the function is but I'm assuming this spring action returns the foot shifter back to 'zero' after shifting. If that's the case then my other problem of the shift drum only going through two gears won't be solved by fixing this part. And that brings up the next question....is this part even fixable (getting that broken bit of bolt off from the case does not look easy, and if was able to I sure havn't seen that little part for sale)? Or am I left now with getting a new right side crankcase. What are my options to tackle this problem?
Hopefully my post and questions are clear, I tend to get wrapped up in the problem I'm focused on and don't always include all the information someone else needs to help.