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MadHatter wrote:ya reckon?
It shed like 40kg i thought that was pretty good.
Id kill for a newer 9

Do you want to buy mine? (note: some assembly required)

Thanx heaps for the info. My 98 C has nearly 50K kays on it now. Guess I better start saving for a selector drum and some new shifting forks!! Could have a big job to do next year!

Actually my selector drum is fine, looks pretty much as new. From what I can tell the main problems are with wear on the gears and their dogs, as well as the thrust washers etc on the input and output shafts. A little bit on each adds up to a lot where you don't need it.

I'm taking photos of everything, I think I might put something together about this with photos, diagrams etc.

What mick says is the norm (plus shift forks if you have kept on riding it when the gearbox is rooted) of what most ppl find when they pull em down.

Stu

BLOOzx9 wrote:Thanx heaps for the info. My 98 C has nearly 50K kays on it now. Guess I better start saving for a selector drum and some new shifting forks!! Could have a big job to do next year!

why....i've got 89K on mine and no problems whatsoever...then again i'm a slow old guy like brett

i dont slam it thru gears on the back wheel....single gear no clutch wheelies only required on a 9, i ALWAYS use the clutch to change gear and try and be as smooth as i can.

Phil wrote:

BLOOzx9 wrote:Thanx heaps for the info. My 98 C has nearly 50K kays on it now. Guess I better start saving for a selector drum and some new shifting forks!! Could have a big job to do next year!

why....i've got 89K on mine and no problems whatsoever...then again i'm a slow old guy like brett

i dont slam it thru gears on the back wheel....single gear no clutch wheelies only required on a 9, i ALWAYS use the clutch to change gear and try and be as smooth as i can.

What you say is 100% right the nicer you are to these weak gearboxs the better they will last and if ya ride like brett ya may even get 300,000k out of it


Stu

You mean theres more then 1 gear ?
SHEEEEEEEEEEEET
Wheres that Bloody Little Book that come with "tiggr" I'm gonna check this out.........







OMFFG .
Cheers Brett

fair enough. but i give mine heaps. i'm not so gentle with the poor girl. i'm usually smooth with the changes but do change gears on the back wheel. love it. i dont use the clutch for upshifts when hard charging either, so i guess that may be cause for extra wear.

think i'll still budget for a gearbox measure and overhaul next year.

cheers

ummmm, i dont baby mine thats for sure......i call it "riding as the manufacturer intended"

if you are unsure ask ty, dave zx9 or any of the others i have ridden with as to if its not being used in it design criteria.

hey guys, a mate just had the same thing happen to his 98 ZX9R and it was found to be a bent shift fork!! it was jumping out of 3rd when coasting and no real major load on da cog box. he wasnt real happy either as he had only had the bike a month or two. i have found my '01 ZX9R seems to have a neutral between 5th and 6th at times to. good luck with it!!!!!!

Yes I'm still here reading away ......
Stu you'll keep mate, you'll keep.
Tiggr hasnt been finding as many False neutrals of late but then i have been riding "as manufacturer intended" more. 16oooks from new in 8 months maybe it might get better with wear, but i doubt it.
cheers Brett

Pontikat wrote:Yes I'm still here reading away ......
Stu you'll keep mate, you'll keep.
Tiggr hasnt been finding as many False neutrals of late but then i have been riding "as manufacturer intended" more. 16oooks from new in 8 months maybe it might get better with wear, but i doubt it.
cheers Brett

Yep
Yep
Me 2

The last of the clips and washers have come in, now I can start swapping gears to the old shafts and put things back together.

As Big Kev says...I'M EXCITED!

Now ya all geared up you have a good time hey!

ALLRIGHT!!

Three late nights, the help of a good mate, and surpisingly very little in the way of swearing and my bike is back on the road. The longest I have ridden it is to work this morning so I have to see how a longer ride will go, but overall things are looking good...well, nothing has fallen off yet anyway