Impossible to find neutral on new FXDC
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From: Honah Lee
Finding neutral
Few hints -- Never try from above. Always go to first and until you know the fill of really going in (my bike gives a small click when fully engaged if say I have missed neutral coming up and I pop it back to 1st.) make sure you really are in first. Then pull up slightly. If you pull up from from 1st and you really are not in 1st it will jump by neutral 75% of the time. Coming from second is the same but it requires about half the pedal travel and therefore a tad more difficult to master. Its all fill and you should not need to look but if you do it on a quite street were you can look you will see what I mean. I have see quite a few of the aftermarket shift rods that have the fancy spherical bearings that are too tight. This will indeed make neutral hard. If yours is the original loose ball 90 degree joint I doubt its your bike. I have the spherical bearing on mine and I tool a 1/4 bolt and two nuts and after putting valve lapping compound on the SS spherical joint and spun the bearing with the the bolt in my drill press for at least 20 minutes to lap a few .001's off it to free it up.
Also make sure your shifter is in correct position for you leg length,style of setting and most all for your boot. Most people do not realize that by adjust shift rod length you can change attitude of position of shift peg and distance it is from foot peg unless you are blessed with a hill and toe shifter. My last bike had floor boards and I loved them. You could shift with wood Dutch shoes if you liked.
Just my opinion--DaytonaPS thinks its easier the other way
Last edited by Jackie Paper; Jul 16, 2010 at 10:43 AM.
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oh and neutral is over-rated
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dont know if you have your hand on the brake or not but if you do trying releasing the brake... and make sure its the brake and not the clutch lol... that made a HUGE difference for me.
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Try changing the tranny to Mobil 1 gear oil, and Mobil V in the primary. This worked on my last 4 harleys, each one had 1k service after 1st weekend.
That avatar is amazing, Virginity huh, not what I was thinkin.
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