Hayabusa Gearbox - the fixed model

[Madmax]

Mark ............. it's that old saying if all else fails read the manual lol Also just download manual in PDF format and then you can print of pages as you want ? If not for free you can buy them online for under $10
Greeny thats Gazza the welder .................. pretty neat job hey ? He also jigs them while he welds them as it's imperative that they are welded central.

You know where, in the manual it says "Always use new circlips!"

I ordered the new circlips before did the last rebuild only to have Suzuki advise they had a computer failure and couldn't get the new circlips to my until the Monday I was to be riding the bike to and from work, so I used the old circlips.

The bad news is that while dicing down Brown Mountian on the way to Tathra and the Busa bash, I realised I couldn't select 1st gear at all! That'll f*** it! Pete pretty well confirms what I considered was the problem, One of the old circlips I used has grown under the pretty harsh riding conditions (redline shit) and has lifted out of its rebate in the shaft, allowing the dogs the separate sufficently so as to not be anywhere near each other when I go for 1st. I've got the motor out on the bench after a days work with most of the periferals off the motor.

The good news is that I did this same job this year already so I have an idea of what's coming. I have the new circlips, gaskets et al and have embarked on the job. Have been waiting for 2 weeks for billet selector shafts to come from Schnitz racing. They are being slow to deliver so I'm now on tentahooks waiting to see if they get here before I put the motor back together. I have a few days to spare so hopefully they'll get here Wed or Thursday.

Don't you just hate having to scrape old gaskets off the mating surfaces!! Worst part of the job.

Later.


Max