Transmission Advice Please - 2009 R3

[lypkkj]

Driving into work one day my R3 stopped shifting gears. Turns out the retaining bolt circled in the attachment came loose and fell into the pan of the trans, luckily not damaging anything on its way through. My 2009 R3 had about 13,000 kms on it at the time.

My shop is quoting 17 hours to repair the issue? Can anyone tell me if this is reasonable? I grew up in a shop, my father is a mechanic and we could replace an entire truck engine and have it running and out the door in that time.

The reason given is that they need to remove the engine to split the transmission and then reassemble, that seems like a lot of work but is 17 hours reasonable for what I expect should be a competent mechanic or am I getting bent over?

Does Triumph have manuals like auto manufacturers that show what different repairs should take for labor time?

Any help here would be appreciated. I'm new to forums in general so hopefully I've posted this correctly, please let me know if I'm doing something wrong. Thanks.

 

[Evil Mitch]

Sounds like they are bending you over to me . 17 hours seems like a looooooooong time
Welcome to the forum by the way . Im sure someone else will clarify how long it should take shortly

 

[HansO]

Welcome and I agree with Mitch ... seems a bit long

 

[ruzzle]

I reckon that time is fair enough. Big job.

 

[warp9.9]

Having taken mine out and splitting it open they are doing good to get her done in 17 hours. it is a fair amount of work. Now while they are in there you should tell them to take a look at the gears since the will be pulling the shafts out to get at the shifting drum/spool. They should also inspect the rear out put bearing for play depending on the mileage. these are things that should be inspected since the engine is already open just for piece of mind. I believe 16 hours is what Triumph gave to do the update kit which required pulling the engine and splitting it open. I would say your not getting bent over except for the fact that the bolt should not have came loose. There was a rash of them doing that on earlier models due to improper application of the thread locker.
Is your shift lever floppy?

 

[lypkkj]

Having taken mine out and splitting it open they are doing good to get her done in 17 hours. it is a fair amount of work. Now while they are in there you should tell them to take a look at the gears since the will be pulling the shafts out to get at the shifting drum/spool. They should also inspect the rear out put bearing for play depending on the mileage. these are things that should be inspected since the engine is already open just for piece of mind. I believe 16 hours is what Triumph gave to do the update kit which required pulling the engine and splitting it open. I would say your not getting bent over except for the fact that the bolt should not have came loose. There was a rash of them doing that on earlier models due to improper application of the thread locker.
Is your shift lever floppy?

The shifter was actually pretty good up until the day it happened, I guess that retaining bolt must have been hanging on by the last few threads. After it happened of course I could rotate the shifter up until the pedal was almost vertical and little or no movement down.

 

[IMFASTTOO]

The shifter was actually pretty good up until the day it happened, I guess that retaining bolt must have been hanging on by the last few threads. After it happened of course I could rotate the shifter up until the pedal was almost vertical and little or no movement down.

ANYTIME you go into the engine gearbox check everything while you have the chance

 

[Idaho Red Rocket 3]

What about you and Dad doing it together and save all that labor cost ?

 

[TriumPhil]

Heel-toe shifter or standard, lypkkj???

 

[lypkkj]

What about you and Dad doing it together and save all that labor cost ?

Unfortunately my dads shop is about a 6 hour drive away in my hometown. So driving the bike there stuck in 2nd gear wasn't an option. If I had a truck and the time to drive it back that may be an option but I may just have to bite the bullet on this one.