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- 1981 GL1100 Innerstate("The Turd")SOLD!!, 1996 GL1500 Innerstate
What a pita this was. I'll describe the process later, but here's some pics...and I ain't even finished yet....yeesh..
Otay...rested up overnight, and ready to continue.
I will start by saying, if you are planning on adding a shifter support like this to your GL1500/Valk, DO NOT, I repeat, DO NOT buy one of the cheap knock-offs!!!!! I did, and it bit me in the ass. Go ahead and spend the $$$ to get the original design pivot support with the teflon coated bronze bushing!!(https://www.goldwingfacts.com/threads/gl1500-auxiliary-shifter-pivot-for-sale.472905/) Once I got mine all together and tightened up, the cheap, soft aluminuminum of this pivot bound up, and gouged the crap out of both the bore, and the pivot that rides in the bore. I had to use files and emory cloth to dress both up to get it to pivot smoothly again. It bound up bad enough I had to use a punch and hammer to get the dang thing apart. GET THE GOOD PART to start with!!!! Learn from my mistake.
Here's the seal/shift lever location. Frame rail almost directly in front of them.
Along with the side covers, the lower shielding has to be removed. This one piece of shielding cannot be removed without removing the exhaust, as it is bolted TO the exhaust. The exhaust will HAVE to be removed to change the seal, but not if only installing the new shift pivot thingy.
Pic of seal/lever once everything is out of the way....
Lever that your foot shift lever attaches to. Without some sort of support, the lever moves in directions it shouldn't, causing the seal to leak.
Seal puller for small seals like this. Only way to get the seal out, really.
Puller in use.
New seal installed. This is the new shift support/pivot. The small red dot on the pivot is in line with the center of the shift shaft sticking out of the engine casing. This support keeps the lever from pulling/pushing up/down on the shaft as it comes out of the casing, which is what causes the seal to leak. This pivot simply allows the shaft lever to rotate the shift shaft, rather than move it up/down as it rotates. If you do not have floorboards, this is where the pivot would go, except I did not have the crash guard on it at the time. The crash guard will go behind this pivot.
This is how it all fits together with floorboards. Still need to trim the metal shielding that covers all of this stuff, and install all of that stuff back on. I had to cut about 1/2" or so off of the spacer there to make up for the thickness of the pivot support.
I'm headed back out to the garage to put the rest of it all back together.....are we havin FUN YET?!?
Otay...rested up overnight, and ready to continue.
I will start by saying, if you are planning on adding a shifter support like this to your GL1500/Valk, DO NOT, I repeat, DO NOT buy one of the cheap knock-offs!!!!! I did, and it bit me in the ass. Go ahead and spend the $$$ to get the original design pivot support with the teflon coated bronze bushing!!(https://www.goldwingfacts.com/threads/gl1500-auxiliary-shifter-pivot-for-sale.472905/) Once I got mine all together and tightened up, the cheap, soft aluminuminum of this pivot bound up, and gouged the crap out of both the bore, and the pivot that rides in the bore. I had to use files and emory cloth to dress both up to get it to pivot smoothly again. It bound up bad enough I had to use a punch and hammer to get the dang thing apart. GET THE GOOD PART to start with!!!! Learn from my mistake.
Here's the seal/shift lever location. Frame rail almost directly in front of them.
Along with the side covers, the lower shielding has to be removed. This one piece of shielding cannot be removed without removing the exhaust, as it is bolted TO the exhaust. The exhaust will HAVE to be removed to change the seal, but not if only installing the new shift pivot thingy.
Pic of seal/lever once everything is out of the way....
Lever that your foot shift lever attaches to. Without some sort of support, the lever moves in directions it shouldn't, causing the seal to leak.
Seal puller for small seals like this. Only way to get the seal out, really.
Puller in use.
New seal installed. This is the new shift support/pivot. The small red dot on the pivot is in line with the center of the shift shaft sticking out of the engine casing. This support keeps the lever from pulling/pushing up/down on the shaft as it comes out of the casing, which is what causes the seal to leak. This pivot simply allows the shaft lever to rotate the shift shaft, rather than move it up/down as it rotates. If you do not have floorboards, this is where the pivot would go, except I did not have the crash guard on it at the time. The crash guard will go behind this pivot.
This is how it all fits together with floorboards. Still need to trim the metal shielding that covers all of this stuff, and install all of that stuff back on. I had to cut about 1/2" or so off of the spacer there to make up for the thickness of the pivot support.
I'm headed back out to the garage to put the rest of it all back together.....are we havin FUN YET?!?
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Got it all trimmed, and put back together, and made sure it all worked as it should. Here we go...
