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Alright so. First off if this is in the wrong forum let me know and I'll move it.
I have a 77 ironhead that I've ridden the living tar out of for the past 4 or 5 years. So I ride the bitch hundreds of miles down to the LA area and low and behold when I get to where I'm going the clutch cable snaps... no big deal we had a van and a trailer so I threw it in and rode home. So I change the clutch cable when I get home no biggie.
When I get the primary case back on and set the clutch I notice the bike shifts fine but it doesn't snap back into position after it shifts. I have to move it back into position before shifting again. I do have forward controls. Soooo I take it apart and reset the clutch a few times. Same issue.
So then I take the case off and with the case off throw the linkage on the shifter arm and bam, It's springs back into position after every shift just fine. So I throw the case back on.... and it goes back to being a douche bag. So I say screw it and go for a put to see if it's going to perhaps fix itself. On the way my dumb ass forgot to tighten the crap out of one of bolts on the linkage and it pops off. I take my foot and lift the linkage with my foot so it's not dragging on the ground and pull onto the sidewalk. throw another bolt in and guess what? Now it the shifter goes 3 or 4 inches forward and backward without shifting at all.
So I take the case back off to see if I can get it to shift with the linkage on the bare shifter arm and nope. It is completely fried now I guess. I'm not exactly sure what I need to here as I can't find anything like this online and can't find it in my manual. So here I am.
Thanks for any help you guys could offer.
Emil
I have a 77 ironhead that I've ridden the living tar out of for the past 4 or 5 years. So I ride the bitch hundreds of miles down to the LA area and low and behold when I get to where I'm going the clutch cable snaps... no big deal we had a van and a trailer so I threw it in and rode home. So I change the clutch cable when I get home no biggie.
When I get the primary case back on and set the clutch I notice the bike shifts fine but it doesn't snap back into position after it shifts. I have to move it back into position before shifting again. I do have forward controls. Soooo I take it apart and reset the clutch a few times. Same issue.
So then I take the case off and with the case off throw the linkage on the shifter arm and bam, It's springs back into position after every shift just fine. So I throw the case back on.... and it goes back to being a douche bag. So I say screw it and go for a put to see if it's going to perhaps fix itself. On the way my dumb ass forgot to tighten the crap out of one of bolts on the linkage and it pops off. I take my foot and lift the linkage with my foot so it's not dragging on the ground and pull onto the sidewalk. throw another bolt in and guess what? Now it the shifter goes 3 or 4 inches forward and backward without shifting at all.
So I take the case back off to see if I can get it to shift with the linkage on the bare shifter arm and nope. It is completely fried now I guess. I'm not exactly sure what I need to here as I can't find anything like this online and can't find it in my manual. So here I am.
Thanks for any help you guys could offer.
Emil
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