wobbly shift pedal

R100 · Post by **R100** » Sun Jul 13, 2014 9:30 am

I am referring to the rear of the shift pedal where it pivots on the shaft at the footpeg.
A little slop is to be expected on an old bike, but mine was ridiculously loose.
In a perfect world I would find a worn out bronze bushing that could be replaced.
No such luck.

What I did was wrap the bottom half of the shaft with .004" aluminium shim stock cut with scissors, some grease, and assembled it. A huge improvement.

Note - .004" aluminium shim stock - a.k.a. beer can.
Won't last forever but replacements are cheap and readily available.

G-Man · Post by **G-Man** » Sun Jul 13, 2014 9:59 am

R100

Nice fix! I use to make head gaskets out of that stuff for my BSA bantam!

Do you know if it the pivot bolt or the pedal that's worn? The bolts come up on eBay.

I think I'm going to get quite upset when I put the gearshift back on my 1964 project. I hate sloppy gear shifters so I might be looking into my bronze off cut box.....

Or, maybe in homage to Mr Honda's love of rolling element bearings, how about a needle-roller bearing..... :-)

G

R100 · Post by **R100** » Sun Jul 13, 2014 10:41 am

G-Man wrote:I might be looking into my bronze off cut box.....

Now I'm jealous.

jeeper44 · Post by **jeeper44** » Tue Sep 02, 2014 8:31 pm

I'm putting my Superhawk back together, and I noticed the same thing-the shifter lever was a very sloppy fit on the bolt, allowing the shifter to move so much as to be able to hit my freshly refinished primary cover, which just ain't gonna do. I was thinking I'd slip some thin feeler gage stock in there. A bushing would be a much more satisfactory solution,though.

R100 · Post by **R100** » Tue Sep 02, 2014 8:44 pm

jeeper44 wrote:I'm putting my Superhawk back together, and I noticed the same thing-the shifter lever was a very sloppy fit on the bolt, allowing the shifter to move so much as to be able to hit my freshly refinished primary cover, which just ain't gonna do. I was thinking I'd slip some thin feeler gage stock in there. A bushing would be a much more satisfactory solution,though.

I have used those in the past.
I have a set I call "sacrificial feeler gauges".