Hi Guys,
The last time I went riding I was having trouble shifting caused by the shift lever not returning to its home position. Today while putting it away for the winter I decided to take things apart and find out why. What I discovered; the shift lever was almost seized to its pivot pin - it took a pretty good pounding to drive the pin out of the shift lever. But after a bit of time with some fine grit sand paper and then reassembly with a bit of grease, it now pivots quite smoothly.
This might be obvious maintenance for the old timers in the crowd, but I'm a new guy!
And another bit of trivia for other new guys who might want to look into this; the adjustment rod is reverse threaded at the transmission end of the rod...
Happy Thanksgiving!
Bob
The last time I went riding I was having trouble shifting caused by the shift lever not returning to its home position. Today while putting it away for the winter I decided to take things apart and find out why. What I discovered; the shift lever was almost seized to its pivot pin - it took a pretty good pounding to drive the pin out of the shift lever. But after a bit of time with some fine grit sand paper and then reassembly with a bit of grease, it now pivots quite smoothly.
This might be obvious maintenance for the old timers in the crowd, but I'm a new guy!
And another bit of trivia for other new guys who might want to look into this; the adjustment rod is reverse threaded at the transmission end of the rod...
Happy Thanksgiving!
Bob