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Anyone with a unbent 400 gear lever, need some pics

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Oddjob:
Cheers Dave, those are a great help. Honda really dropped the ball designing that. The angle of the link rod is obscene, why not extend the bush housing and bend the lever inwards to compensate. That way the link arm would run straighter and cause less wear on the rose joints, it's no wonder they failed quickly.

Ted, the real thing in my hand is always better than pics. I'll PM you my address again. Don't you keep your PMs, I have 50 pages of them so I can read them again if I need to.

Roo, there's shagged and then there's shagged. This one is beyond shagged, it's like a pretzel it's so twisted out of shape. The gear shaft end is all done, all corrosion gone, the linkage arm is still ok on that one.

I've got a CB1300 gear lever lying around and the 400 looks almost the same, I'm wondering if the 1300 gear lever setup would fit the 400. I'll compare lever lengths, bush diameters etc and see. The 1300 lever is really nice, if it fits you'd just need to swap over the link rod as the 400 one is much shorter.

Oddjob:
To show you what I'm working with I took some pics before starting work.

Have a look at these babies.

Front of lever. Chrome almost extinct. What you can't see is how twisted it is.



Back of lever. Chrome was already poor from the factory but it got worse.



Yay!! a good part. Gear shaft end.



Reverse side. The rose joint is SO knackered it moved back and forth by 3-6mm, that would have rattled it's head off on the bike. I'm not 100% sure if that's the alignment dot or just a deep pit in the chrome.



What the hell happened here.





And to show you how badly damaged this section was, check out the alignment of the rose joint bracket. Not only is it bent inwards but backward as well and like a nice Cocktail, it comes with a twist.

taysidedragon:
It'll polish out!  ;D

Johnny4428:
I can see it being sanded and buffed into submission.🤣

Laverdaroo:
You can undferstand why it was replaced Ken, saying that a bit of OCD thrown at it and it'll be as good as new ;D


Interested to see how your fiddling goes with the 1300 changer, that could be a really good fix mate. Keep at it mate.

I've an evening in the shed tonight as Bristol Badger is coming over to get his engine finished off. Cases are back together now so its getting all buttoned up tonight with a bit of luck. Im working on my frame so I'm banished outside so I dont blather him in sparks ::) ;D

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