Other 1999 WR400F

Mihylo33

Mihylo33

Trfsrfr:
Yeah I have to keep reminding myself of that, but she does pretty well for me on the track.
I keep telling myself that if I can learn to maneuver this big heavy thing around the track, that I'll be that much better when I get the 250F running and lose 50 lbs...
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I’ve been losing 50lbs since 2008.
 
2Wheels

2Wheels

It will get more stable if you raise the clamps a bit. I usually have about 8-10mm showing over the top.
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Trfsrfr

Trfsrfr

I went to the track 6 weeks ago and broke my bike (and my arm).

After the crash riding back to the truck It would go in and out of 1st gear, but thats it. Would never hit 2nd or higher.
I was hoping that I would pull the cover and find a broken shift drum cam piece or something similar (and inexpensive) but that didn't happen. I didn't find anything wrong with it.

So I started spinning the shift drum and it appeared to go into all the gears.
Have any of y'all experienced something similar? If I had a broken shift fork would it go into the gears as I just stated?

I really dont want to split the cases cuz thats $1000.00, but I wasn't expecting to NOT find anything wrong either. Normally when I break something, its usually very obvious whats broke.

What am I missing here?
 
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Trfsrfr

Trfsrfr

timoyz:
I only use grease on my scooter paper gaskets just for this reason.
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I tried your grease method when I did the water pump back in Aug, and thank you @timoyz! That is an awesome solution to that problem. That gasket is intact 100% right now, so not buying that again for this fix.

timoyz:
Sounds like a bent shifter hitting the stator cover.
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If it was that...well that would be like winning the lotto for me right now. But I ain't that lucky this time.
 
Mihylo33

Mihylo33

Trfsrfr:
I tried your grease method when I did the water pump back in Aug, and thank you @timoyz! That is an awesome solution to that problem. That gasket is intact 100% right now, so not buying that again for this fix.


If it was that...well that would be like winning the lotto for me right now. But I ain't that lucky this time.
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Even a slightly bent shifter will cause an issue these days.
Sorry to hear about your arm. What happened?
 
Trfsrfr

Trfsrfr

Mihylo33:
Even a slightly bent shifter will cause an issue these days.
Sorry to hear about your arm. What happened?
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Nope, it's clear. Shifter arm is fine.
I was coming into this semi-long, sweeping wide left-handed, not-exactly-slow, 3rd gear kind of rut at the track I been hangin out at, and was about 1/2 way into it when my front wheel popped out, then knifed, and I flew over the bars and landed in the hard packed desert. My left wrist took the majority of the initial hit. Real damn sure I broke it, but never saw a doc or got an x-ray. I've broken enough bones to know though. Today is my best day since and thats 5-6 weeks now, which is about right...
2Wheels:
Yeah I would not be as concerned with my bike being broken. At least not until my cast is off
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Funny you mention the cast. I had a cast kit here at my place in case I ever needed one (again) for myself, but I gave it to a rookie skydiver friend of mine when he snapped his fibula a couple weeks ago. Otherwise I had planned to use it.

I'm broke, bikes broke, time for a break I guess.
Call me Ken Roczen lol!
Too bad too, cuz I was getting good.
 
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Trfsrfr

Trfsrfr

If I can move the shift drum with my hand, and watch the spring loaded stopper-lever click into place for each gear, does this mean the transmission internals are good and I'm just not seeing the problem ?
 
timoyz

timoyz

If you do it by hand, at the drum, and it goes in all gears and you verified by spinning wheel, then yes, you are missing something.
 
Mihylo33

Mihylo33

timoyz:
If you do it by hand, at the drum, and it goes in all gears and you verified by spinning wheel, then yes, you are missing something.
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If you sit in your hand until it goes numb and it feels like someone else is doing it for you then that’s cool with me....... just sayin. But then for $40 you can get a Dutch rudder by lovespeed. Just sayin...........
 
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