2007 Harley Davidson XL 883 Sportster "broken bike shifters" Questions

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...bike will move but will not come out of gear and has play and shift lever Sounds like you have a broken shifter pawl. It's behind the clutch assembly in the primary cover. You'll have to take ...

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...broken and jammed in first or second gear. I have a 2007 harley 883 sportster. took the bike down and the gear shifter pedal got bent and jammed. Can't switch gears stuck in first and the engine will ...

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...bike in that area....doesn't seem to be the clutch....i can change gears but only by moving lever up and down until it gets into gear....harder to get to higher gears.... There is a spring inside the ...

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...broken... The bike fell over and the shifter lever broke, did not want to replace so I jury riged the shifter to the remaining shaft. Seems to work fine but can't get the bike to kick into gear. I ...

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...broken in the transmission. With the engine off and the bike on the kickstand with the transmission in neutral, gently depress the shifter lever down until just before it shifts. Then, let go of the ...

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...bike a bit, I would guess that you have a shifter pawl spring broken in your transmission. It's either the return spring or the spring on the pawl itself. To test the spring, start from the "neutral ...

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bike is. The first thing I'd suspect is some sort of linkage bind or it needs some lubrication. If the transmission is not shifting through the gears, you may have a broken shifter pawl or shifter

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broken in? No, sorry to tell you that you don't need to break a gear in. There is something not quite right in the transmission if it's jumping out of gear. If I had to guess, he probably broke second

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...bike will not shift into 3,4,or 5th. The toe/heal shifter has excess play and nuetral can be difficult to find. Shop tech says there is a broken spring in trans which requires the teardown of the ...

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...bike home i noticed the shifter was down against the frame.i took the shifter off and noticed that it would not go into gear from nuetral.the shaft that the shifter was attached to is free ...

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