Gen 1 gearbox.

[ooliganpete]

Hiya.
My Gen 1 5th gear has started to start 'jumping' and rattling. I think the tapers on the cog are buggered.
I've been told it's a complete strip out job that's very expensive and may be cheaper to swap out the engine. Any help, thoughts, ideas will be appreciated. Thanks.    

[Rocketgeezer]

The only way it may be cheaper is if you got a used engine from a junkyard or ebay ...........and then you would be taking a chance that its good and not worse than what you have, cheapest way that would get your bike fixed is get yourself a good shop manual, and have a it, you do have to pull the eng and split the cases, and you will need a few tools, and while not absolutly nessessary, a bike lift makes things a lot easyer, something to remember is all you would spend for this basic equipment will not equal what a shop would charge for just the labor, but if your not the mechanical type, get out your credit card and wait and PAY

[ooliganpete]

Thanks Rocketgeezer. That's just about what I was thinking....split and rebuild. Was offered a good Gen 2 engine but need 32 bit ecu and other things. That would make it just as expensive as getting someone to strip mine.

[firemanjim]

What year is your bike? And can't you put the Gen 1 stator and rotor on the Gen 2??

That said, it is not hard to pull the trans, just requires time and wrenching.

[wildphil69]

i have a couple complete gen 1 trannies