Looking for an engine

[rocketeer]

While passing a car on a mountain pass, my transmission broke. I made it to the shoulder and as I tried to downshift, my rear wheel locked entirely.

I just got the word from the shop that they started the diagnosis and found many pieces of gears in the lower part of the engine. They say it may be cheaper to replace the engine. I did some web searcing and did not find any rocket engine resources.

Does anyone know a good source? I am located in Denver.

 

[scot in exile]

Did the dealership say why this happened? and are they talking to Triumph about it.

 

[Loot1112]

Check on Ebay, There are usually a few used ones.

 

[biker1059]

There's a seller on ebay that usually has an engine. There's two on this page.

Triumph Rocket 3 engine items - Get great deals on eBay Motors, triumph rocket 3 items on eBay.com!

 

[warp9.9]

Yes those two engines are at Pinwall's and have been for sale since September 2010. If memore serves me right they ar eboth 05 engines one with about 20k and the other with about 12k look closeley as one has some damage on the casing.

 

[HellFire]

A major failure on a 2007 would surely be an interest to Triumph, they've participated in repairing older bikes than that. I would give them a call to at least discuss it with them.

 

[Kmutt]

Pinwalls would be your best bet. Although maybe a salvage yard could be handy. But I think pinwall has video of the engine running before tear down.....good luck!

 

[rocketeer]

Thanks for the input.

To be more specific about what happened, I missed an upshift and gunned it in "false neutral". I could feel and hear rattling in the transmission, but I was already committed to passing a car. I mashed it into gear and got back into my own lane, but the rattle kept getting worse. As I stated at th beginning of the thread, I managed to get to the shoulder before the rear wheel seized.

I am fortunate it did not lock up sooner. I had my wife on the back. It could have been tragic.

I bought a demo and it has been nothing but trouble. I took it in in earlier because of a noise, and they found it was due to a bearing that had been installed backward at the factory. Triumph only partially paid for the repair since it was out of warranty.

 

[rocketeer]

A major failure on a 2007 would surely be an interest to Triumph, they've participated in repairing older bikes than that. I would give them a call to at least discuss it with them.

HellFire, Who do you suggest I contact? It is being serviced at the Triumph dealer where it was purchased.

 

[HellFire]

I talked to Peter at Triumph USA the last time I had warranty problems and before that to document a transmission noise complaint just in case it turned into something worse. I don't have the number handy, but it is in the warranty book with the bike paperwork.

The last one was trivial, but I had to call to go over the dealers head over a cracked valve cover gasket. It was the dealers fault, they should have paid for it, but Peter at Triumph took care of it out of warranty. Your dealer should be the one on the phone with them, but I understand that some of them can't be entrusted with that kind of responsibility (too greedy/lazy to do it in mines case).