Transmission went south

mr hunt said:

The circlip issue has more to do with the shifting force through gear changes than it does engine hp/tq .... both times it happened to me were directly following track days where gear changes were hard and often at WOT.

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warp9.9 said:

I tend to agree with you. The cir-clip is a known problem. I wished I'd had payed attention to see if it was a consistent cir-clip moving or not I've been staring at the premature damage of a gear box for the last couple days in fact laying on the couch i can turn and see the exploded views in the manual thats been laying there for a couple weeks now. Believe it or not I use it as a quick reference I'm thinking I need to fire up my computer and go thru my transmission photos. Might even find someone recording of his transmission operating with a drill motor
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If they were helical cut i could understand some lateral force on the clips but not being straight cut

...and if you stare too long the pictures they will start moving on the page...stop the meds and take a nap then

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Walking Tall said:

Track days? On a Rocket 3?

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mr hunt said:

Probably the most fun bike I've ever punted around a track. It's a handful in the corners but the only bikes consistently ahead of me are Japanese litre bikes...the rest of the power rangers are embarrassed by 'dad' lapping them on a half-tonne brick

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warp9.9 said:

I tend to agree with you. The cir-clip is a known problem. I wished I'd had payed attention to see if it was a consistent cir-clip moving or not I've been staring at the premature damage of a gear box for the last couple days in fact laying on the couch i can turn and see the exploded views in the manual thats been laying there for a couple weeks now. Believe it or not I use it as a quick reference I'm thinking I need to fire up my computer and go thru my transmission photos. Might even find someone recording of his transmission operating with a drill motor

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Ishrub said:

I wish someone could operate on my smashed 4th gear with a drill too, just like keyhole surgery without removing it and opening the cases! Ahh, some day we will pour in a can of nanobots to fix it for us and then have them file back out and into their box until the next repair was required. Well I saw it working on "Red Dwarf' like that anyway I think it was.

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Dr.D said:

What the new Rockets lack in the corners, which ain’t much, they make up for coming up out of them even on a small straight way.

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mr hunt said:

Probably the most fun bike I've ever punted around a track. It's a handful in the corners but the only bikes consistently ahead of me are Japanese litre bikes...the rest of the power rangers are embarrassed by 'dad' lapping them on a half-tonne brick

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warp9.9 said:

Alot can be learned by pondering over what you see in a picture. Like this one the cir-clip has moved out of its groove. If you look and think long enough you will notice the slight damage to gear teeth. If this feller would have road a little more it would have ate itself up.

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