2014 KtM 450 sx-fe tranny problems ?

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Edited Date/Time 5/16/2014 1:43pm
I have a customer who is having a false neutral between 3-4th gear, and having the bike refusing to shift up from 3-4th. Has anybody who owns/rides one had a similar issue ? Or have any other dealers been hearing of complains like this ?
Customer is a vet master rider(good rider) and not a super fussy guy BTW....
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EastFlorida 5/16/2014 8:40am
5/16/2014 8:40am
Your best bet is to go to KTMtalk. If you can't find the answer there, well, you can't find it....
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activeMX 5/16/2014 8:54am
5/16/2014 8:54am
Sounds like a blown tranny. Shift fork could be wasted. Splitting the cases is the only solution.
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TeamGreen 5/16/2014 8:57am
5/16/2014 8:57am
three9zero wrote:
I have a customer who is having a false neutral between 3-4th gear, and having the bike refusing to shift up from 3-4th. Has anybody who...
I have a customer who is having a false neutral between 3-4th gear, and having the bike refusing to shift up from 3-4th. Has anybody who owns/rides one had a similar issue ? Or have any other dealers been hearing of complains like this ?
Customer is a vet master rider(good rider) and not a super fussy guy BTW....
I had this problem w/ the race-gear-set that they put in as a Factory Services part(s). Replaced it with production trans from '14 SXF. Working fine.

I'm of the opinion that when I 1st started riding the bike it had a very "sensitive" gear-spacing that got beat up really quick from missed shifts while on the gas. Also, getting the Stock KTM shifter adjusted just-right is almost impossible for some boots/feet & going to an after-market shifter with a different length/height seems to help.

Oddly, the best gear box I've ridden, lately? Husky FC450.
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TeamGreen 5/16/2014 8:58am
5/16/2014 8:58am
activeMX wrote:
Sounds like a blown tranny. Shift fork could be wasted. Splitting the cases is the only solution.
Yup, I had an unhappy shift-fork and gear dawgs.

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IceMan446 5/16/2014 9:21am
5/16/2014 9:21am
I thought the only tranny problems were on the new yamaha???

Guess not.
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Berni 5/16/2014 10:27am
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I don't know in the 4 stroke models, but in my 2stroke if I don't use 15w50 oil, it refuses to shift if I have the gas open even if it is just a little, with 15w50, I can powershift WFO with a light touch to the clutch
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KMC440 5/16/2014 10:41am
5/16/2014 10:41am
I found a solution to a problem years ago on my 2stroke... the damn thing had a light switch clutch making gear changes a 70% proposition. TypeF transmission fluid changed after each race day was the fix. Until I tried it I wouldn't have believed it.
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Digger29 5/16/2014 12:43pm
5/16/2014 12:43pm
I run a 50-50 mix of ATF and 5-20 motor oil and my 13 300SX shifts awesome. I change every it 3 rides and it comes out red just the way it went in. Been doing it since the 90s with all of my 2 strokes and have never had a tranny problem.
overthebars39 5/16/2014 1:43pm
5/16/2014 1:43pm
three9zero wrote:
I have a customer who is having a false neutral between 3-4th gear, and having the bike refusing to shift up from 3-4th. Has anybody who...
I have a customer who is having a false neutral between 3-4th gear, and having the bike refusing to shift up from 3-4th. Has anybody who owns/rides one had a similar issue ? Or have any other dealers been hearing of complains like this ?
Customer is a vet master rider(good rider) and not a super fussy guy BTW....
What oil is he running? My KTM's where always picky in the oil department.

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