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I am not sure if anyone has seen this, but I'll describe below:
I was riding out of my apartment on a fairly cold SoCal day, about 37° out. No warm-up, just powered on and rode off. I ripped out onto my street and down to the stoplight at the end of the road, highest gear I hit was 3rd. I go to downshift, and the lowest it went was N. I kept tapping down, but it felt "mushy". I made a U-turn, and started to ride back home, but upshifting worked. I decided to take the back way to work, and shifted all the way up to 5th. When I reached the next stoplight, I tried downshifting...only to find it would only get to 4th, and with some effort. I pulled over and tried getting it to downshift with a little back and forth rolling, with no result. I turned back around and limped the bike back home. I had the shift shaft replaced about a year ago, 9k miles on the new shaft. It's been about 4500 miles since the last oil change, albeit I didn't change the filter, but I did the change prior, about 3k miles before that. From the little info online I can find, it may be a broken shift drum? I believe this means splitting the cases to resolve. I've never done this before, but I'm a big DIYer, since I don't have the $2500 to spend on the repair with an indy shop (HD would be even more). I have an HD repair manual, so I know that'll come in handy. I've found the shift drum on eBay for about $250. The thing is, before I even start troubleshooting, where do I begin? I revisited the bike after a week, and there was no change (obviously). Does anyone have any insight on the culprit?
I was riding out of my apartment on a fairly cold SoCal day, about 37° out. No warm-up, just powered on and rode off. I ripped out onto my street and down to the stoplight at the end of the road, highest gear I hit was 3rd. I go to downshift, and the lowest it went was N. I kept tapping down, but it felt "mushy". I made a U-turn, and started to ride back home, but upshifting worked. I decided to take the back way to work, and shifted all the way up to 5th. When I reached the next stoplight, I tried downshifting...only to find it would only get to 4th, and with some effort. I pulled over and tried getting it to downshift with a little back and forth rolling, with no result. I turned back around and limped the bike back home. I had the shift shaft replaced about a year ago, 9k miles on the new shaft. It's been about 4500 miles since the last oil change, albeit I didn't change the filter, but I did the change prior, about 3k miles before that. From the little info online I can find, it may be a broken shift drum? I believe this means splitting the cases to resolve. I've never done this before, but I'm a big DIYer, since I don't have the $2500 to spend on the repair with an indy shop (HD would be even more). I have an HD repair manual, so I know that'll come in handy. I've found the shift drum on eBay for about $250. The thing is, before I even start troubleshooting, where do I begin? I revisited the bike after a week, and there was no change (obviously). Does anyone have any insight on the culprit?