Topic: Transmission cover install

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How do you install the trans cover while properly engaging the shift lever? I had to remove the trans cover, to get to the Stator. Now it won't shift. What is the trick to putting the cover back on? I've searched the posts but haven't found what I was looking for. Suggestions, or point me in the right direction, please.

[MCRider]

Shouldn't be a problem. Doesn't make any difference what gear the trans is in, or anything like that. Just make sure you got the dowel(s), gasket and offer it up.

Doesn't shift? The cover sholdn't be the problem. The pedal pivot has an articulated arm that you may have disturbed. It needs to be engaged in the shifting dogs of the drum. Get it to shift before installing the cover. Be gentle and turn the rear wheel back and forth while shifting. Once the arm/pivot is seated, the cover should go right on.

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First, thanks very much for the help. When I removed the cover, it all came off together. The shaft the the lever pivots on came out with the cover. Do I need to separate the cover from the lever, and pivot point, and put them together separate from the cover? Or will wiggling the rear tire help it to fall together. I have the cover on tight. Again thanks for the help, MCRider. Oh, 78 750K.

[MCRider]

Well that explains it. I would think you'd need to put the pedal pivot with the articulated arm into its place on the side of the engine. The end of that arm has to be "fed" gently into its space to pull on the dogs of the drum to get it to rotate. I'm afraid you may have bent something when you tightened down the cover, if it weren't where it needed to be first. I can't imagine you could jiggle it into place from the outside.

Its gangly so a bend is recoverable. Or you may have just pinned it into place. If it were me I'd remove the cover and start over.