Magoo strikes again...

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Ok the 1200 wouldn?t select a gear and when I put me glasses on I was amazed to see I had lost all the little pins out of the selector shaft what a twat!
I cant find them anywhere searched high and low can anyone advise on size and diameter as on a website I looked at they are ?6.84 + vat each I will part off a bit of stainless bar if necessary.... thoughts..

Andy
 
Ok they look like 4mm x 12mm hardened steel pins is my guess agreed?
 
Don't feel too bad about it andy. We all make mistakes.
Yesterday I was chatting to a mate who runs a motorcycle repair business, and he told me about one of his customers who had bought a Kawasaki 1300 as a restoration project. When the bloke got the bike home and up on his bike lift he discovered a problem - it wouldn't shift into second gear. He could only get first and neutral. There was nothing obviously wrong selector mechanism so he figured it must be inside the gearbox. A bent shift fork maybe? So he pulled the engine out of the bike and split the crankcase. Not a simple job with one of those behemoths.
When he couldn't find a problem with the shift forks, he was at a loss. That's when he rang my mate the motorcycle mechanic, who told him that the Z1300 has a little centrifugal gizmo that only lets it shift into second gear when it's rolling along. It's to help find neutral when stoped at the lights.
 
All is not lost I found a supply they are about ?7 for 50 and about ?9 postage but I guess I will never run out.... keep it in mind cuz I will send them on for the cost of postage alone if any one needs them,  to teach the other buggers for charging so much if nothing else. They are just the sort of part you lose easily if they bounce off the garage floor they are gone!! Talking of which I am moving house within the month so I am going to Epoxy the bloody new garage floor before I move stuff in..
 
that centrifugal gear selector inhibitor is common on Kawasaki's. I bought a 305 belt drive bike for breaking, only to discover that the belt drive sprocket had been removed from the engine, and left loose, I was told that it now wont select the gears, so I reassembled everything, got it running and found that they were all there, got the bike MOT'd, thought about keeping it for a city commuter, and then sold it on as a runner, but sadly didn't make a huge amount, although it wasn't too bad in the grand scope of things.
CLEM
 
Andyp had a mate who painted his garage floor bright yellow. We all said what have you done this is ugly its giving me a head ache just looking at it, till he dropped the world smallest nut it stood out like the proverable
Good luck with the move
 
Small things dropped on workshop floors always bounce into the most inaccessable recess in the workshop, or into a pile of swarf and dirt where they find the most camouflage. I dunno how many hours I've spent on my hands and knees sifting through crap on the floor looking for tiny little screws or 1/8" bearing balls. The other rule of dropped things is that the more difficult they are to replace, the better hidden they will be.
 
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