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So I finally got the bleepity-bleep-bleep phillips screws out (I had to drill 6 of them out) on the casing to get to the clutch. I thought the clutch spring just wore out and it'd be a quick fix. Should have known better, nothing is a quick fix for me (the spring is still intact and working well.) So here's a summary:
1982 Kawasaki CSR305
Goes into 1st and neutral. That's it.
 
........ummmm, sell it? :lol:

Are there metal shavings in the case? How can you tell that the springs are good?
 
80gs1000e said:
........ummmm, sell it? :lol:

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This might be the best advice. If you get only first gear and neutral it is not a clutch problem, but a transmission problem.

It sounds like a shift rod or fork is misaligned or broken inside the tranny.
If so, repair could be fairly easy, once the transmission is apart, but you will have to remove it from the bike.


If not one of those, you may be looking at damage of some sort, so new parts or a new transmission may be needed.

You definitely need a good manual before going any farther with this project.
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Well, I just bought the bike so I'm not about to let the first problem I encounter scare me away.
Fortunately, the guy who sold the bike to me gave us a really good manual for it and it does have pics of the tranny and instructions on how to rebuild it. My fiancee and I rebuilt his GS650 from the ground up (we bought it frame and three boxes of motor). He did most of the work, but I was the one to rebuild his tranny cuz I was able to make heads and tails of pics where he couldn't. Once I get the tranny outta this bike, I'm hoping for the same miracle to occur, if ya think it's the just something misaligned. Hope it's not broken.

I accidently dropped the bike one day (stupid me forgot to put the kickstand down :oops: :oops: :oops: ), the next time I went to ride is when I ended up with this problem. Think the drop was the cause???
 
Dropping the bike could bend a shift fork or damage something in the starwheel area. HOWEVER, the most common thing I see like that is just that the shift lever hits the case or footpeg, keeping it from moving further in the desired direction. With the cover off, you should be able to check if you go into the higher gears. BTW, you need to rotate the rear wheel by hand while you are checking.
 
I dropped my 400 on ice one day and had the transmission quit too. All of my gears turned into neutral but after turning the wheel a bit and going through all the gears with the bike turned off I got it to work normally. I don't think it was a clutch cable problem since the bike fell on the right hand side.

Steve
 
Thanks for that tip Don, I didn't know you had to rotate the back wheel, I'll have to check that tomorrow. Man, if that's all that it is I will be praising the heavens and the earth!!!
 
Since you have the clutch cover off, you shouldn't have to pull in the clutch. Check that shift lever for interference first.
 
My wife's Virago had shifting "issues" after she dropped it. Straightening the lever and lubing up the linkage seems to have cleared up the problem. 8)
 
Well, the shift lever does not seem to be in the right place (it's underneath the casing, is that right?) Spinning the wheel we can get it to shift through all the gears, but with extreme difficulty (and we had to turn the shift lever backwards in order to shift). But the lever does not appear to be bent, it just seems to be in the wrong place.........
 
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