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Maintenance & Technical => KX500 Original => Topic started by: kiwikx500 on August 13, 2008, 04:45:36 PM

Title: Loose gear shift
Post by: kiwikx500 on August 13, 2008, 04:45:36 PM

The new gear shift loose on the spline, is there any material that can be used that goes around the spline to pack it out a bit ?

Cheerz

Title: Re: Loose gear shift
Post by: hughes on August 14, 2008, 07:56:54 AM

The shift is a clamp style, make sure the bolt is tight on the shifter. Might be some wear on the splines of the shift shaft.

Title: Re: Loose gear shift
Post by: BDI on August 14, 2008, 07:59:20 AM

May get lucky and just need a new shifter do to the shifter being aluminum and the shaft being steel if not the shift shaft is easy enough to change.

Title: Re: Loose gear shift
Post by: KX500freak on August 14, 2008, 08:28:06 AM

i have a simple and good solution for this.
if the shifter innersplines are good,and on the shaft also,
but still you can see /feel tiny freeplay?

take it off and splitted halves where the bolt goes through,
these halves can be grinded a mm wider with a 1 mm thick cuttingdisc.
so the split is a bit wider now, then you can tighten the bolt a bit more .
then it grabs deep and free of play in eachothers splines
did this mod on my both bikes ,never had any issues with shifters come loose :-)

Title: Re: Loose gear shift
Post by: kiwikx500 on August 15, 2008, 10:08:06 AM

What a cracker of an idea, cheers.