tigersfriend
New Member
I just bought my first Harley so I am not familiar with the internals of the motor, I have a lot of experience with Japanese bike engines so I understand transmissions. The problem I am having is sometimes when I shift from 3rd to 2nd, it goes right past 2nd gear and goes into neutral (the neutral light comes on as well). It does this about one out of every ten times I downshift, whether I am downshifting from 3rd to 2nd, or all the way from 5th down to 1rst. I noticed that if I am very carefull, I can upshift every single gear without making any clunk sound at all, except going from 2nd to third, it always has a clunk going into 3rd which I thought was odd as that problem usually happens between 1rst and 2nd in almost any bike. The engine has 20K miles on it and otherwise runs perfect and I am really hoping I am not dealing with an internal problem such as a bent shifting fork.
Please, can anyone help, I LOVE my first Harley and dread the thought of having to tear the entire engine down for what is so far a minor irritant.
Thanks, Chris
Please, can anyone help, I LOVE my first Harley and dread the thought of having to tear the entire engine down for what is so far a minor irritant.
Thanks, Chris