Death By Snoo Snoo wrote:argh...... it's just so wierd because i can accelerate all day long in 1st gear with some decent throttle and then all of a sudden i take off in first...and it will just bounce out and then slam back into gear.. and that can happen under very LIGHT acceleration...
That just keeps
is it possible that only SOME of the dogs that engage the gear are worn? So its a bit like pot luck if i get the worn ones when clicking into 1st which determines if it will jump out or not?
Dun work like that. In a nutshell, the way it works is like this:
-There are two shafts, the input and the output, each with six gears on it.
-On each shaft, half the gears are splined on, so they rotate with the shaft, and half spin freely on bearings.
-A splined gear on the input shaft mates to a free-spinning gear on the output shaft, and vice versa.
-The free-spinning gears also slide along the shafts, under the action of selector forks, and mate with the splined gears by means of dogs.
So, all the dogs on a sliding gear engage together. While it's possible only one of them has failed royally, instead of all of them being a bit worn, the prognosis is still pretty dire, and the long kms you've done with the gearbox doing that won't have helped things.
Still totally unsure, i can see a '00' R1 for $7,500 with 28,000 on the clock. But if i'm going to get diddly $$$ for the zx6 than theres no point...
If you end up keeping it, book it in to get it fixed *now*.
