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1988 Honda Shadow VT800. The gear shift is stuck. Will not move up or down. Looking at the diagrams, there is are 2 gear spindles. One from the left, which involve removing the flywheel, and one from the right, which involves removing the clutch. Neither moves. What could be causing the blockage?

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Something may have broken, like a dowel on the shifting drum and jammed the mechanism.

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Drove my 1988 vt800 shadow into the garage cause it wasn't charging ? Put in a new stator and all is well Except now the shifter won't move ? Tomorrow I'm bleeding the clucth and move the shifting bolt closer to the case We'll see all was perfect prior ?

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    just changed the stator on a 1988 Honda vt8oo and found that I had the same problem when I got done, Removed the the case once again then went to the shifter shaft and played around with it till it got centered,went in 1/4 inch more and all was fine.

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