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I've got an old gearchange off a 400 lying around waiting to be experimented on Ted. Can't believe the amount of play in the rose joints, both have around 3-6mm of play. I'm going to replace the rose joints with better ones, replace the rubber boots with new, refurbish the gear lever and the mounting part and have it rechromed to see how it looks after.If it looks ok Ted I'll let you have it for road testing if your up for it. Nothing worse than pulling the old foot up to change gear and you end up lifting the entire foot off the footrest because there's so much play in the linkage. Really bad design by Honda, simple lever like the 500 would have been much better.
Something weird about that lever. As standard the long part of the lever sits outside the gear shaft fitting. Also I think that the gear shaft fitting needs rotating clockwise by about 30deg until the bolt is horizontal. This may require some further adjustment of the rose joint bar.
That's the bottom engine hanger bolt Ted. On the 500 that bolt is threaded both ends, could be the same on the 400. In which case loosen the nut on the gearchange end and take the bolt further through the frame by tightening the nut on the brake lever end. That should stop it hitting.