TURBO200R4
stand up straight and grab the world by the a$$
That is what i was thinking .
Riding style and gearbnox problems
- Thread starter Mike Rocket
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That is what i was thinking .
Rocket Scientist
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- Black 05' Rocket III standard
I don't flog my bike to hard. It's an '05 and had the second gear issue before I bought it. Whoever replaced the second gear likely reused the old circlips. They were nearly all installed the wrong direction. I believe that's what caused my trans failure.
CamaroCarl
Get busy living or get busy dying.
So I worked at the Harley factory in Kansas City for 17 years. Spent a few of those years on the vrod powertrain assembly line. The transmission input and output shafts came from the supplier fully assembled. The engine case was split in half, we installed shift shafts and shift forks, then dropped in the assembled shafts with gears on them. My point is maybe same way at triumph? Maybe triumph was buying their trans shafts already assembled from a supplier? Triumph factory workers might not have had anything to do with it. Did triumph change suppliers at any time? When Harley first built the vrod they teamed up with Porsche, so a lot of the early suppliers were in Europe. I know cylinder heads were from France, lot of stuff from Germany. That changed every year. You can look at the outside of a vrod powertrain from 2004 and 2014 and they look the same. But inside there are 20 parts that were made by different suppliers in different countries. By the end almost nothing came from Europe. Sad to see really...The quality of parts coming from places like India was definitely not the same. So there is a chance that different year rockets have transmission parts from different suppliers.
sonny
Living Legend
NOPE. Clips were installed at the factory in England by trained mechanics. Have done a lot of research on this. Know exactly what your talking about when it comes to Harley. Kind of like the clutch basket from China that was not heat treated correctly. Not even going to mention the stator's that went south under 10,000 miles that Harley ignored.
Gregger
Living Legend
A Triumph FACTORY trained mechanic....
Martin-Brighton-uk
Supercharged
Presenting Sir Clip of House Rocket.. (I just finished all seasons of Game of Thrones)...
Mike Rocket
Rocket 3
Fantastic video again. Wonderful informative stuff. Thanks for posting it. Is there still any doubt about which way the circlips are fitted or are you sure now as there seems so little difference in the rounded and flat edges?
Martin-Brighton-uk
Supercharged
I put the clips in following the manual which indicates which way the curved outer radius should be facing.
Mike Rocket
Rocket 3
Thanks for the answer. I have the official Triumph manual but when i look at the drawings it still seems a little unclear. I hope it's all fine for you now. I just hope i do'nt have to do it on mine. Good luck with it.
Bondysbike
Turbocharged
Crickey...you’re a bundle of laughs aren’t you....jeez.
