shifter linkages

mech o1 · Post by **mech o1** » Mon Oct 26, 2009 10:21 am

my question to all my fellow superhawk owners is how to get slop out of the shifter where the bolt goes through to bolt up the shifter and foot peg any input will help thanks guys ..........mech 01

e3steve · Post by **e3steve** » Mon Oct 26, 2009 1:40 pm

Pic, Mech?

EDIT: Sorry Mech, is this the part / location?

rbaselt · Post by **rbaselt** » Tue Oct 27, 2009 9:17 am

Replacing the shifter pedal and/or the pivot bolt with new parts is one option. Alternatively, you could fit a properly-sized sleeve into the shifter pedal. --Randall

e3steve · Post by **e3steve** » Tue Oct 27, 2009 10:06 am

Inexpensive jury-rig solution: buy a cheap set of feeler gauges, take off the pedal and slip the stepped fulcrum bolt into place; slide the feelers in, size by size, until one is found to take up the slack but you can still rotate the bolt, just, by hand. Cut it to length with a pair of scissors, et voila! Bung it all back together with the 'shim' in place, packing out the sloppy pedal's journal; it's not a spinning component on an axle,merely moving through a few degrees.

I got my old Triumph 5TA Speed Twin through the statutory road test (M.o.T.) when I was a kid by using the same 'fix' on the swing-arm bushes!

A more professional remedy would be, as Randy says, bushing the pedal.