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I'm wondering Ted why Honda made the gear lever curved, is it so it avoids hitting anything?
Ted, I'll fish my old change assembly out and bob a piccie up on here. If any bits are betterer than the bits you have its yours mate, If it saves an unexpected faff, it might help you out buddy
Quote from: Oddjob on November 21, 2021, 06:41:44 PMI'm wondering Ted why Honda made the gear lever curved, is it so it avoids hitting anything?I think it was simply to make a mundane looking, vital part have some form of artistic presence as well Ken. It's similar to thee swoop of the headers etc.....I'd like to think anyway.
No Ted, the pivot pin located on the footrest bar was what I meant.
Hi Ted, I think I'm correct in saying that many of us here are in a fairly similar age group, and can possibly remember when these bikes were introduced. It was a time of 400/4's, Yam LC hooligan bikes, Kawasaki 3 cylinder suicide missiles. The young wannabees that bought them just filled the petrol tanks, kicked the tyres, and wrung their throttle cables to breaking point. The fact that so many of them survived says a lot about the build quality! I'm sure that you, me, and many others here were brought up with a view to a certain amount of mechanical sympathy. One of the old adages that was drummed into me was "if it moves, oil it". I shouldn't think many of these original gear linkages saw a drop of grease in their life. I've been very fortunate that I bought my bike in 1988 from an enthusiast, and it's had a fair bit of TLC ever since. I am still running the original gear linkage, but I had it re-chromed about 5 years ago. So, I know you won't forget to fill that mid section of the spigot with grease, and if you can, get hold of an aerosol can of 'dry' grease with a nozzle and fill inside the rubbers on the rose joints. Have fun. Mike.
The trouble with the ball joints is that even new there is a lot of movement not meant to be present. That's why I replaced mine with proper Rose joints and now there is no slack at all present. Yes grease will help but it won't cure what is frankly a poor substitute for a proper Rose Joint. I'd agree 100% with the lack of grease on the pivot pin, even when they were still fairly new it was not uncommon to have the gear lever vibrating around like it had Dementia. If the new footrest is ok can I have the old one to play with Ted, I may be able to come up with a solution that not only replaces the entire lever setup but also encompasses a pivot point that is sealed and thus holds grease.