Yet another Roadster with a dead transmission

[Dawg68]

You send the entire gear pack including the shafts. He can beef up the circlips like he did for @Rocket Scientist. I would also look at replacing the forks while you have it open. I caught my failure early and it looked like it started with a slightly warped fork. I wish @Claviger was still on here (he was like my HGTV... do things I wish I could but can only watch someone else with actual talent), I think he found out the start of his dog issues was with the fork as well. Why take the chance if you already have the thing cracked open.

Thank you, so far my 14 R3R HAS 38K Km’s and I’ve never had an issue. My 17 R3T seems to be working okay but last season I noticed that on occasion when shifting between 1st and 2nd it seemed to land in between gears. Happened only a couple of times, I had wondered if I was shifting too light. I’ll know more this season. Thanks again

 

[RockOn]

With only 136,000 miles on my Classic, I'm thinking that maybe there's a few with solid trannys out there.

Geez, I hope the same guy that built your tranny did mine too!

 

[albertaduke]

When you sent them off to Robinson Transmission did you send just the gears or the entire input and output shafts complete?

I sent the whole transmission in one piece

 

[Dr.D]

Well I just added a bunch of hp to mine so fingers crossed. I’d hate the +2 grand for the fix but being broke down on the road side is going to be embarrassing and inconvenient. The down time not having the bike to ride will be awful. Sometimes I drive mine a bit hard.

 

[Bondysbike]

Well I just added a bunch of hp to mine so fingers crossed. I’d hate the +2 grand for the fix but being broke down on the road side is going to be embarrassing and inconvenient. The down time not having the bike to ride will be awful. Sometimes I drive mine a bit hard.

On my third ...so far so good!

 

[Lemieuxfan]

28k miles plus on my 2014 R3R my tranny hasn't gave me any issues knock on wood...

 

[Dr.D]

It’s good to be on this forum so when it does go down I’ll have some technical support.

 

[bernard]

2014 R3R, 44,000 miles, 4th gear dropping out under load, usually back into 3rd. Looks like it's my turn to become an uncertified Rocket technician. It sounds like either Robinson or Carpenter can rework the gearbox, including a billet 4th. 6 of one, half dozen of the other?

 

[Tripps]

Sorry to hear that, if you're doing it yourself, you might save a couple bucks by sending it direct to Robinson, I think a few guys here have, @warp9.9 probably could enlighten you.

 

[1olbull]

On your '16 or a previous Rocket?

I also have a 2011 R3R and curious what the last 6 of your vin are?
Perhaps identifying the bikes with tranny issues by their VIN sequence (last 6 digits) would be interesting to see if they are in a group.
I can run your VIN if you wish (need all 17 characters).
This is what mine looks like and reveals only the sequence number: