'box trouble zx7r

green thunder · Post by **green thunder** » Thu Aug 31, 2006 2:13 pm

has anybody who rides a zx7r had any complaints with the 'box? for some reason 4th gear decided it wanted to throw in the towel on me. after 3 weeks waiting for the gears from japan and a clymers manual as my bible all is well... apart from some minor seepage and a few little vibrations. but i did save myself alot of money in labour costs =).

mrmina · Post by **mrmina** » Thu Aug 31, 2006 5:21 pm

what year zx7r and how many km's

I-K · Post by **I-K** » Thu Aug 31, 2006 10:22 pm

Given enough hammer, or a sufficient sprinkling of random manufacturing defects back at the foundry, any bike's gearbox will spit something out the side.

If a particular model has a design flaw in the gearbox, it'll develop a reputation for it by the time bikes start reaching 10-15,000km, max. That didn't happen with the ZX7...

green thunder · Post by **green thunder** » Fri Sep 01, 2006 12:18 am

well very coincedentally, the bike is a '97 and it had only done 12000 when i bought it and it crapped itself at about 16000. im always the unlucky one =(. it was the next step up from my rgv 250 at the time, i was too scared to get up it for the rent.

FrogZ · Post by **FrogZ** » Fri Sep 01, 2006 12:25 am

Not aware of any 4th gear stuff, you can root the 1st to 2nd to 3rd doing ham fisted monos

If you have already fixed it, what did you find ?

greenmeanie · Post by **greenmeanie** » Fri Sep 01, 2006 9:17 am

Never had any dramas with mine.

mrmina · Post by **mrmina** » Fri Sep 01, 2006 7:59 pm

greenmeanie wrote:Never had any dramas with mine.

SocialSecurity · Post by **SocialSecurity** » Sun Sep 03, 2006 12:10 pm

kwaka boxes have a fairly good reputation AFAIK...

cept of course C model zx9r's to a degree... how convenient

no trouble yet tho, but its awful clunky