Recent content by scdrtramp

I've been riding for 50 years and there is no way a drum brake is better than a disk brake period. I will get it changed, I have the swing arm and all that is needed. I can and will weld the bosses on my heritage frame. thanks everyone.

I was afraid of that. thanks for the drawings

Hello all,, I have an 83 Heritage Special. It has the spoke wheels and a drum brake on the rear, which is terrible.I also have a 78 650 special that has mags and disk brakes front and rear. I love the disks. I want to change the heritage to disk on the back. I have a parts bike that has the...

If you look close at pic two the two legs on the spring are different. Should they be this way?? When the downshift problem first happened I pulled the clutch and the shift shaft looked just like it does in the pic, one leg of the spring is actually unde the lever possibly limiting the travel...

I had a chance today to look further into my shifting problem and found that the large spring that springs it back is bent I believe.

I'm going to check out the rotor today, the trans woes bike is waiting for me to get started on pulling the engine. I found a parts bike to get parts from for the trans, but had to buy this 79 with the parts bike to get it.

I’ve had the bike out twice now, and limped home both times. Lol. First time it was the vacuum port caps left the scoot somewhere out in the country. The pic shows the fix to limp. Lol. Today it started running shitty and it turned out to be a crimped fuel line. The bike is still not...

Maybe the clutch is the problem with the downshifting, but when the wheel locks in neutral I think the clutch might be out of the loop. When the wheel locks is stops dead mechanical like. and the shifting problem is also mechanical I think. After going down to third, which it does fine, the...

when it locks, the wheel is what locks. it has done it with the engine running or off. after it wouldn't downshift the second time I tried to reposition in in my shop and it would not roll backwards with the clutch in and not running. it would only roll backwards after I removed the clutch.

I just got the bike last fall. I know the clutch is new because I removed it. prior to the problem the clutch worked fine.

when trying to downshift to second it will not even shift down at all. and never got it in neutral after that. I removed the side cover and clutch assembly and can downshift it then.