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Message: [QUOTE="David Trustrum, post: 626063, member: 21529"] Yeah not sure where I picked up the term rattlegun, a quaint colloquialism from some mechanic I guess. Don’t expect everyone to have a compressor but couldn’t live without one now. Sadly male ego being what it is, I feel I need a bigger one. :silly: Leaned away from the dragging theory, it was just -it gets worse when hot makes you think something is affected. Infact it seems to drop into gear when you let the clutch out a bit so it does drag. This means the selector drum isn’t turning quite enough to pass by neutral into the next gear (1st). It may get pulled in or vibrate in. The hooks that pull the shifter drum (that the star is attached to) may be bent (don’t think XRs have adjustment here). The star may have a sharp edge preventing the roller passing cleanly over the raised neutral position. Check the roller is ok & spring, maybe it binds slightly or a bolt is backing out. If this & your lever gets a clean bill of health then I would start to think shift fork or some play in the rod it slides along, or sliding gear binds up. All out of easy access sadly. When the bike is hot; Just out of interest if you are in 2nd & stationary & bike won’t go into 1st does it go into neutral or stay in 2nd? I’m assuming it shifts but doesn’t get past neutral. So now you are in neutral & not getting into 1st. What if you kill the engine? Presume it doesn’t drop in unless you rock bike back & forward? [/QUOTE]

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