909 Posted January 7, 2004 Report Posted January 7, 2004 Sat. night, ready for the late night Olds trip and the shee is making a strange WHIRRING shound ideling. Pull in the clutch and it goes away, let it out and it starts again. Thinkin its cold trans oil I pull it down the sand highway to warm it up, pulling hard 1st...2nd...3rd....4t... LOCKUP!!!! Feeling like I just seized the motor, I pull in the clutch and lightly kick it over and it kicks smooth as silk! Kick it hard and fires right up, Clutch out and it dies, will not change into another gear or neutral, will not roll. I bring it home and dump the oil, no metal chunks in it so a buddy tells me it happened to 2 of his shees and its stuck in 3rd/4th and I can pop the clutch cover off and stick the fork back in and its good to go... WTF??? Has anyone else heard of this? Is this normal or did I break something expensive? Please help me get my learn on!! Thanks. Quote
Aussie Quad Racer Posted January 7, 2004 Report Posted January 7, 2004 i have had a problem with the linkage on the end of the shift shaft binding up(it within the clutch cover). I solved the problem by replacing it with an rz unit. Quote
spoin39 Posted January 7, 2004 Report Posted January 7, 2004 I have had the same problem, Take your clutch cover off and see if the shift change lever came off of the shift star. It probably did and if so you can either just pop it back on and hope it was a fluke or replace the whole rod and linkage. I replaced mine and haven't had a problem since. The shaft and lever comes together and is only like $30. Quote
909 Posted January 7, 2004 Author Report Posted January 7, 2004 Thanks for the 411 guys. This was driving me nuts since this motor only has about 10 hours on it since Trinity built it. If I were to replace with an RZ unit does this fix the problem? I know the forks and drum are superior units and I had anticipated running the RZ trans at some point but the thought of splitting the cases to do the swap isn't in the cards for this season. Is that something that can be swapped out without replacing other components? I just don't want it to happen again if I can avoid it in the first place. Sand doesn't mak the best repair facility, especially with the winds we had last weekend! Thanks for the help! Quote
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