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Originally posted by thewright1
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I've watched how my local bike shop uses them, (they have pretty large platform ones) and they use them to raise the bike to an easier working level. They either use the center stand or those paddock stands that hook on the front and/or back tires.Cy
1980 XS1100G (Brutus) w/81H Engine
Duplicolor Mirage Paint Job (Purple/Green)
Vetter Windjammer IV
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OEM Luggage Rack
Jardine Spaghetti 4-2 exhaust system
Spade Fuse Box
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I'm looking at the photos on http://www.xs11.com/xs11-info/tech-t...strations.html what makes the gear appear bad, when the paint is grinded off?1980 XS1100SG
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IT is more a matter of the corners getting rounded off. When you shift the bike you are effectively shoving those dogs into the slots on the other gear. When they gat to rounded on the corners, they tend to slide back out, but the shift forks is still nudging them in so they go back in when they can and then back out and ...well...repeat...repeat...repeat. The ole in and out thing you see.
And when the more they do that the more they wear and the more they pop out and the more your screwed, or at least your gears are.
The fix is to grind on the gear to create the undercut and to lessen/eliminate the rounding over of the gear. This tech tip goes to a little more depth on the process and the concepts.Life is what happens while your planning everything else!
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From the factory, there just isn't much engagement of the dog of one gear and the slot of another. As DGSXR stated, the edges round off.
In this pic.. you'll see just about how far the gears mesh. Just think of all the torque.. wheelies, 1/4 mile runs, etc... run on just this little bit of steel meshing. They mesh by just about the thickness of this washer...
That's why many do the washer swap while they're in there. That gives them nearly double the contact on the gears. I posted some pics about that here...
http://www.xs11.com/forum/showthread.php?t=16390
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