Getting the bolt that holds the shifter on????

[themess]

1) What model and year is it?

2) Show a photo or two.

3) Spray with PB Blaster and let it soak a few hours.

4) Don't do anything rash.

[rombi]

I will post a pic when I get home.
It is a 82 650e. I have done this on other bikes but you see what I mean there just isn't any room in front of that bolt. Maybe tonight I will see another option now that the frustation level has dropped and I have a better outlook on it. Thanks for the ideas.

[Splittie]

Can the footpeg be removed to give more room??

[daWrench]

I think if you have a cheap wrench 10mm, you could heat the wrench up just about half an inch from the box end so that the tool would face rearward while the box end is on the head of the bolt. To turn the wrench use some needle nose vise grips, You might only get an 1/8 of a turn out of it at a time but it should work. Use "PB breaker, or WD-40" on the bolt, not heat. If you melt the seal behind that linkage you more issue's. Makeing specialty tools help you do what you need and save you from buying them for a high price.

[daWrench]

Or just use a drimmal tool and cut the linkage off the shaft! You can buy a new one for 21 bucks on (Cycle Parts Nation.com)

[Draketh]

The way my bike is, is there is the shifter arm, and its hold onto the shaft by the spines and a little bold that brings together each end of where it slides on the shaft to clamp it on tight.

Maybe soak the whole shaft and bolt down with some WD40 and let it sit, or PB Blaster.

[rombi]

here is what I am looking at. I can not get a box end on it. Not enough room. I hope you can see by the pics.

[rombi]

try that again

[rombi]

getting fuzzy

[rombi]

very fuzzy
see how deep that is set in there? Maybe I am missing something. I worked on F-15's for four years and never got so ****ed/confused whatever

[rombi]

Some more info now that I am thinking about this. I will come clean. I was chasing a stray cat down the driveway, rough gravel washboard type and the I was dirttracking it a bit and there was some wheel hop. BOOM the chain breaks/comes off/ grenades what have you. I can not see what is happening in the front sprocket. I can not shift it up or down, the shifter is tight. So I had some fun and I now come crawling back to seek help.
I think the chain bounced off not broke. It feels like it is on the counter shaft yet not to the side.

[daWrench]

Lol

We all have fun some times! If you can turn a wrench on a P.W. F-100 220 jet engine and read the T.O. books then you can figure this out. How bout takeing the rear side cover off the engine that is just above the shifter and that covers the chain. You get that chain loose an she might just start shifting again. An like I said earlier, If you have to cut it, just cut it. The whole shifter assem. is only like 60 bucks or so. An remember if you want to play, you have to pay!

[rombi]

Another nice day and I had to take the car.

[Suzuki mad]

This is going to sound weird. If you keep some weight on the up stroke of the gear lever the remote (thats what we are looking at) will come down. (I hope) That should give you a bit more clearance, then you should be able to get a spanner on it to undo it.

Suzuki mad.

[themess]

Doesn't sound weird at all. The shifter lever has to have a position in which there is easy access to the bolt. Maybe rocking the chain a bit will allow moving the shifter lever into a position in which there is access. Or removing a cover, or both.

It would help to see a clear photo from another GS650E. And, I guess, that a GS550E would be very similar.