paging Kawasaki types

This positive neutral thing, is there a knack to it? I seem to be going from
first to neutral a lot when setting off.

 

Change the angle of your gear shift lever and this should help, also
check the tension on your clutch cable against the spec.

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Hmm. Never had that. I'm trying to remember the mechanism in my
head, and frankly failing, but ISTR that is works with a spring and
ball bearing, that, once the output shaft is spinning, the
centrifugal[1] force ensures it doesn't engage. So, it could be that
the ball bearing / spring is gunged up and not moving properly. But
this is something of a guess.

It's not too bad to get to, as it's outside the crankcases, behind the
so-called "transmission cover", on the gearchange side of the engine.
Less than an hours work to get to it - remove LH fairing, clutch m/c,
sprocket cover, front sprocket, rear wheel (to be able twist chain out
the way and remove front sprocket) and then transmission cover.
<thinks> And you need to drain the oil to. And the trans cover has
its own gasket, which will need to be replaced.


[1] don't start [2]
[2] you know who you are.

 

Its under warrenty so I'll be taking it back to the shop but I just want to
make sure its a real problem first. It has some rearsets[1] fitted so it may
be, as suggested above, that the gear lever position needs fettling a bit.


[1] Bare shiny alloy, which has now been introduced to wet salty roads for
the 1st time. I can *hear* them dissolving in the car park.

 

Cheers,ta.

 

YEah, deffo do that

heh. Have the roads been re-salted since it pissed down last week?

 

Just been looking in the Haynes book for my ZX9, the neutral switch is
as Champ says but the actual mechanism consists of two steel balls
located in two small holes on fifth gear. The manual warns against using
grease to hold these in place during reassembly as they need to move
freely for the mechanism to work. I don't see how they can be got at
without stripping the gearbox. I've had four Kawasaki's with this system
and never had any problems with any of them.

 

Ok, have tightened up the gear lever and positioned it in a better spot for
the dainty flash foot.

Much stopping and starting has revealed that the PNT makes a click when it
disengages and taking that as a cue to change top second seems to have
solved the problem. Still think its a bit pointless though (imo).

 

Speaking as a part-time user of a none-down/five-up arrangement - I'd
love a PNF on the KH500.

The bad news is: the KH500 had one - but I've got a H1E motor in the
bloody thing.

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