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It really only takes one or two shanked 1-2 shifts at WOT to bend a fork or remove some material from the gear dogs/pockets. It happens. Also, the rare but possible false neutral and trying to get it back into gear in traffic, etc. happens. And as Wfooshee mentioned, it's a progressive...

Yeah, I'm thinking the wife wants it to go as well. Gotta make it look like you're trying.

Pull the clutch cover off again and see if you can watch the clutch pressure plate and spring move when you actuate the clutch. Did you pull the little plunger out that pushes against the bearing on the pressure plate? There's a ball bearing beneath it; it may have fallen out. Been known to...

am wondering why I should entertain either doing the job myself, or paying a dealer to do it. -- Because if neither of you do it, you run the risk of burning a valve or three. Are there symptoms of needing a valve check? -- Nope. My fuel economy hasn't fluctuated in a very long time. -- Got...

Overdrive compared to drive compared to underdrive. It's a little more confusing on an FJR because of the primary and secondary reduction gears in the box, but think of a rear wheel drive car. Overdrive simply means the engine is spinning at a slower RPM than the drive shaft. Drive means...

It is.

The clutch packs are engaged in eight different stages, IIRC, and that acts as a means of "gently" applying power to the wheels, so I guess you could say that acts like gearing stages in a transmission, true. Also the rear tires grow in diameter as the car approaches the end of the track...

Relevant Onion article. I've little issue with Yamaha making a marketing decision to update their FJR transmission to a 6 speed in order to sell more bikes, but I do take issue with people thinking that having more gears to play with is better. People seem to not understand the point of having...

I'm thinking that they may be referring to the primary gears between the crank and clutch basket of the new slipper clutch. In addition to not being able to shift like conventionally straight cut gears, helical cut gears produce an axial load on the shaft under torque, which they'd have to...

I'm good with Gen 3.5. Gen 4 to me would encompass a significant engine casting or frame change, wheelbase change, etc.

THEY FINALLY COLOR MATCHED THE SIDE PANELS!! I'm an '06 owner, so I'm a fan of the blue. I have to be honest, I like what they've done with most of the upgrades. However, it doesn't look like they've changed the engine casing at all to accommodate a sixth gear (just going by the pictures)...

Went to the Los Angeles Motorcycle Show in Long Beach this morning and they had a '15 people could pet. I asked: "So where is the 2016 FJR?" And got answered with a smile: "EVERYONE has been asking us that question, and we don't know anything." There's some fodder for the "enough demand"...

Fixiert.

This is fun for you, isn't it....

I'll be damned, I just looked at the clutch fiche for the '09 A and AE models, and the clutch hub, spacer, belleville spring (3,4,& 5) are different part numbers between the models, and you're right, the AE has no wire. Still don't know the purpose of the wire, but now I'm guessing the...

Mine's been out since the beginning of '12. Zero difference in clutch operation or the 1st gear "kerchunk".

Wish I'd seen your struggle earlier, I'd have said to throw the damn wire out! It serves no mechanical porpoise, if I had to guess they use it as an assembly aid at the factory to hold the belleville spring, spacer, smaller friction disc and steel disc (15-18 in the fiche) in place while the...

There's a clunk, but it happens so quickly that it might not be noticed. That can happen a couple/few times as the trans is popping in and out, trying to find a set of dogs that will grab and hold. What the video isn't able to show is that it can be felt more than anything, the instantaneous...

's a ****** video of my bike popping out of 2nd gear under hard acceleration. Shot from my old Droid 3 mounted to a Ram Bone, the quality is less than ideal. I also had to edit out the criminality, but you should still be able to hear the pop out at about 11 seconds into the video.

That right there makes me think he's popping out of 2nd, unfortunately. If I were you LKLD, I'd not buy any clutch discs before cracking open the clutch and seeing if any of the frictions are out of tolerance, or there's any thing burned/smeared. I'd only buy a gasket for right now. I highly...