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  • Dusty54
    Dusty54
    9 months
    Bike: 1991 FLSTC Heritage Softail EVO 88cube S&S motor - otherwise all standard.
    Problem: When slowing down get a grating noise from below. Loose the ability to get higher gears. Noise tends to significantly reduce if clutch applied. 
    Suspected: Drive belt was over riding the front sprocket. Removed front sprocket and replaced with new one. Adjusted pawl. Refitted everything. Selection of all gears with bike off ground and hand turning back wheel and no motor running is good.
    Test Drive: no problem selecting 1st and neutral. When riding gets into 2nd good. Cannot get third. When slowing down the grating noise starts up.
    Question: Anyone got ideas. Appears to me to be a gearbox issue but I have never pulled a gearbox apart. 
  • Daz666
    Daz666
    9 months
    Quoting Dusty54 on 14 Feb 2024 05:43 AM

    Bike: 1991 FLSTC Heritage Softail EVO 88cube S&S motor - otherwise all standard.

    Problem: When slowing down get a grating noise from below. Loose the ability to get higher gears. Noise tends to significantly reduce if clutch applied. 
    Suspected: Drive belt was over riding the front sprocket. Removed front sprocket and replaced with new one. Adjusted pawl. Refitted everything. Selection of all gears with bike off ground and hand turning back wheel and no motor running is good.
    Test Drive: no problem selecting 1st and neutral. When riding gets into 2nd good. Cannot get third. When slowing down the grating noise starts up.
    Question: Anyone got ideas. Appears to me to be a gearbox issue but I have never pulled a gearbox apart. 

    Just guessing here but sounds like you could have a bent fork insIde the box, which should slide around the shift drum but its not selecting the gear.
    Try to find a manual or google up an exploded or normal diagram of the box for your model year..
  • Dusty54
    Dusty54
    9 months
    Thanks for the response. I have the workshop manual. No the issue is exactly the same as before I did a pawl adjustment. I am suspecting the clutch could be the cause. I have the bike running on the jack and the noise appears to be coming from the primary side. I guess I will be pulling the primary off again. Thanks
  • tussuck
    tussuck
    9 months
    I'm guessing the spring in the Tranny....
     
  • tussuck
    tussuck
    9 months
    Well, dont leave us all hanging here!  
  • brucefxdl
    brucefxdl
    8 months
    Quoting tussuck on 23 Feb 2024 08:55 PM

    Well, dont leave us all hanging here!  

    maybe he has found his gears a pissed off for an overdue ride.
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