Trans..2nd gear/ Tremel Tricks..one more time

[myac455]

Guys, Seeing I've got my bike all stripped down, I thought I'd take a look at the trans.
I did a search last night, and spend several hours reading about a neat chopper, and a few other mentions of 2nd gear, but I never found the how-to stuff.
I looked under info/ tech tips/ trans ??
Is there a sticky somewhere that I'm missing?
Thanks in advance
Mark

[TruthHammer]

http://www.xs11.com/forum/showthread.php?t=5090

[myac455]

http://www.xs11.com/forum/showthread.php?t=5090

Thank you ,Sir

[myac455]

Guys, Seeing I've got my bike all stripped down, I thought I'd take a look at the trans.
I did a search last night, and spend several hours reading about a neat chopper, and a few other mentions of 2nd gear, but I never found the how-to stuff.
I looked under info/ tech tips/ trans ??
Is there a sticky somewhere that I'm missing?
Thanks in advance
Mark

Of course, that would be Dremel, or in my case , a H-Femel.
Works okay. I bought it 10 years ago to slick shift a T-5 trans. Still working!
Their electrical stuff seems to be okay. Air tools? Junk

[Tenorman]

My thoughts on "new" gears...and the Dremel Fix...

I don't want to start on a war on the Dremel Fix, but when I did my bike two years, I searched for new gears from Partzilla.

The 1st Gear was still available, but they showed that the 4th Gear was, but later emailed me that it wasn't. I bought the 1st gear (about $100.00 with shipping).

I found another 2 NOS gears on eBay...4th and 2nd...bought them...about $100.00 each. I then bought a good used transmission on eBay...another $100.00.

You'll look long and hard to find the 5th gear although they do come up on eBay once in a while...maybe $100.00 if you're lucky.

I ended up using the 5th gear from the used transmission along with the 2nd gear washer. (I had the new second gear cut so I could use 2 washers...one on either side.)

If I had to do it all over again, I would have contacted these people

http://www.fastbygast.com

The FJ owners site has a ton of information on these transmissions, because they also had problems with the 2nd gear on the early FJ1100 and FJ1200.

By the way...I never found a NOS gear that was undercut...I don't think that they ever existed. All that I found was NOS...NEW OLD STOCK...

Hope this helps....

Tenorman

[myac455]

Thanks for the info.
I'll get into mine in a week or so.
I have no idea on the miles on mine , but I know it's got plenty of years of use.
I guess it's just something that has to be dealt with on these bikes.
I'll make it drive-able and dependable some way.
Not going to be power shifting and yanking the wheel in every gear, like in the 70's. LOL

[jetmechmarty]

I don't want to start on a war on the Dremel Fix, but when I did my bike two years, I searched for new gears from Partzilla.

The 1st Gear was still available, but they showed that the 4th Gear was, but later emailed me that it wasn't. I bought the 1st gear (about $100.00 with shipping).

I found another 2 NOS gears on eBay...4th and 2nd...bought them...about $100.00 each. I then bought a good used transmission on eBay...another $100.00.

You'll look long and hard to find the 5th gear although they do come up on eBay once in a while...maybe $100.00 if you're lucky.

I ended up using the 5th gear from the used transmission along with the 2nd gear washer. (I had the new second gear cut so I could use 2 washers...one on either side.)

If I had to do it all over again, I would have contacted these people

http://www.fastbygast.com

The FJ owners site has a ton of information on these transmissions, because they also had problems with the 2nd gear on the early FJ1100 and FJ1200.

By the way...I never found a NOS gear that was undercut...I don't think that they ever existed. All that I found was NOS...NEW OLD STOCK...

Hope this helps....

Tenorman

I concur. New gears were still available when I did mine. Today, I'd want a precision grind followed by case hardening.