Earlier tonight i was riding around in the driveway. The motor locks up. Doesnt give any signs of anything going wrong. It just locked up and stalled out in a instant.
It seems like it got stuck in second gear, it wouldnt shift so we figured it broke second or something. Heres the kinda confusing part, even with the clutch lever pulled in the bike would not roll and kickstarter would not budge.
Got it to the garage and pulled the clutch cover off, everything looked fine. The top end spun freely. So we took the motor out of the bike and split the cases. NOTHING was broken in the tranny. No metak shavings or anything and every gear looked fine.
The motor had been running for 2-3 hours and shifted and ran fine. I know i cant totally say it wasnt a install error but you would expect a install error to be noticable right away when you first start the bike up.
We are totally stumped. All we can come up with is the tranny some how got wedged between gears or something.
I would really like to know what happened so it doesnt happen again, i got lucky and was just rolling around the driveway when it happened. If i would have been on the face of a jump i would have been screwed.
It happened under fairly "light accerlation" but the motor was being dogged on pretty good a couple minutes before it happened.
BTW its a 124SE motor with a kitaco clutch and tranny kit.
Im just wondering if any of you motor builders have ran into anything like this before?
It seems like it got stuck in second gear, it wouldnt shift so we figured it broke second or something. Heres the kinda confusing part, even with the clutch lever pulled in the bike would not roll and kickstarter would not budge.
Got it to the garage and pulled the clutch cover off, everything looked fine. The top end spun freely. So we took the motor out of the bike and split the cases. NOTHING was broken in the tranny. No metak shavings or anything and every gear looked fine.
The motor had been running for 2-3 hours and shifted and ran fine. I know i cant totally say it wasnt a install error but you would expect a install error to be noticable right away when you first start the bike up.
We are totally stumped. All we can come up with is the tranny some how got wedged between gears or something.
I would really like to know what happened so it doesnt happen again, i got lucky and was just rolling around the driveway when it happened. If i would have been on the face of a jump i would have been screwed.
It happened under fairly "light accerlation" but the motor was being dogged on pretty good a couple minutes before it happened.
BTW its a 124SE motor with a kitaco clutch and tranny kit.
Im just wondering if any of you motor builders have ran into anything like this before?
:grin: of people including myself are run'n Takegawa parts with no problems !!!! 
