In your message dated: Mon, 09 Dec 2002 15:31:51 PST, The pithy ruminations from Kevin Harrington on <Re: Fw: Fw: Re: FJR1300 PRODUCTION CANCELED.> were: => Hey! Countershaft stripping! That's the same thing
Do you mean that the front sprocket stripped, or the engine output shaft went? => that happened to me but in only 4000 miles... Really In my case, the engine output shaft was stripped...after about 50k miles. => look hard at saving the output shaft--the whole motor Um, what do you mean "saving the output shaft"? => must be disassembled to replace it :>( The mechanic Yep. Good time to do any "other" engine work. => that started the job said the nut was tight--just a => weak sprocket or something. Started a whole bunch of On my bike, the sprocket wasn't terribly worn, but it had started to rotate (and strip) the output shaft. The bike was running fine--I brought it into the shop for other work and they found the problem before the shaft was so stripped that it could no longer drive the front sprocket. Mark => horrible events that only RSRBOB saved me from--Thanks => again. Make sure you have a good shop do the => work--order parts in advance if you can, some will be => hard to get in time to rebuild while the disassembly => is fresh in their minds... => FL Kev => => => --- "Thomas H. Keyworth" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: => > I realize this thread is now a couple weeks old, and => > I must confess I don't always keep up you guys (but => > I do peek in occasionally) but..... w/ both GTS' => > down right now, (think I stripped the drive => > sprocket/shaft a couple weeks ago - haven't had the => > heart to open it up to find out yet - the other's => > STILL in the shop, still waiting to have the fuel => > injectors synced).. I finally decided to go down and => > get the FJR 1300... hah! silly me. Of everything I => > read on Yamaha's site, nothing alludes to the fact => > that they're impossible to get. ----- Mark Bergman Biker, Rock Climber, Unix mechanic, IATSE #1 Stagehand '94 Yamaha GTS1000A^2 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://wwwkeys.pgp.net:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=bergman%40panix.com I want a newsgroup with a infinite S/N ratio! Now taking CFV on: rec.motorcycles.stagehands.pet-bird-owners.pinballers.unix-supporters 15+ So Far--Want to join? Check out: http://www.panix.com/~bergman
