KX Riders

Maintenance & Technical => KX500 Original => Topic started by: Rotorised on July 30, 2007, 11:23:32 PM

Title: Gearbox problems
Post by: Rotorised on July 30, 2007, 11:23:32 PM

I have recently pulled apart my gearbox to find that about %70 of all my internal gears have chipped teeth. The bike has always run fine and I always use the clutch on changes and changed the oil regularly with high quality oil.
Has anyone heard of this before? The first thing  I will do before putting it back together will be to sort out some sort of magnetic drain plug  :x
Also is there anyone here with any unused internal gears in good condition that they could part with for some cash?

Cheers
Brad

Title: Re: Gearbox problems
Post by: hughes on July 31, 2007, 01:58:12 AM

The ole 500 gear box is tough as nails. A photo of the gears could help some us tell maybe what went wrong, Sorry I have no gear sets. Most issue with the 500 gear box is shift forks bend.