I'm going to share with you a common practice on Kawasaki transmissions and I bet your race bike probably has it so your race quad I should say. And I also want to give you some history. So a lot of the lessons I give in class are my failures, so where I got into trouble as a mechanic or whatnot. And this is a funny one because this takes me back to my history with the other instructor here at Dirk Bach when I went and started working for him when I was 21 or so right out of college. We had a customer and this is so important where we talk about work orders but we had a customer bring a KZ1000 motorcycle legendary bike right and this is back in the mid 90s into the Honda Suzuki dealership that worked out. It was Honda Suzuki Kubota BMW at that time. And being a young fresh college graduate or whatnot I was really excited because the owner that had just bought the bike literally from a garage sale or something said that the transmission was bad. And I was like oh give me the job, give me the job, I'd love to have that. And so we walk over the motorcycle and we grab the shift lever on this Kawasaki and we shift it down to first gear and the transmission would turn the back tire which shifted in a neutral and it would go fine but it wouldn't go into second. And so sure enough that seemed like a logical diagnosis to you guys that there's transmission problems, not at all. There is absolutely nothing wrong with this motorcycle. What the problem was is we didn't know Kawasaki's. So we were a Suzuki, like I said Suzuki Honda shop and I pulled the motor split the cases, did all the precision measurement like we just did in the last video, couldn't find anything wrong. I think my gut started getting a little not. It thought it's got to be something I'm missing. Got my coworker over, my boss there and Dirk and said hey take a look as he couldn't find anything right, says well maybe you've destroyed the evidence in the disassembly. That happens sometimes, whatever was broke or whatever is wrong maybe there was dirt or something that was jamming up and just not allowing it to shift. We just didn't know. And so put the bike back together, stuck it in the chassis, went to fire it up, carbs on everything else, did not one time try to shift it. Just didn't even try. Go to take, go to fire the bike up on the bench or whatnot and I go to shift it in first gear it goes fine. I grabbed the lever by hand, go neutral it goes fine, won't go into second gear. I'm like oh my god I must have done something wrong. Pull the motor, split the cases again, couldn't find anything wrong. And at this point where there's you know, you know, 10, 15 hours of wasted time at this point, I thought I'd do a call out and I call a buddy of mine that I went to college with and Hogi were yeah. I called Mike Gregory and what was the other kid's name that's up there, Jackson, cycle, oh it's a climber. Jason Klein, where I think it is climbers what we know him as but I call it say guys, this crazy I'm working on this old cowie down here. We can't, we cannot figure this transmission out. So it's a lot like you guys getting to be friends and calling something working in our dealership and he goes let me guess it won't shift past neutral. I said yeah that's exactly it and he says because they don't. Well like what do you mean they don't? He was that's the design just go ride the bike so that Kawasaki that you know I'd taken in and out all those times at this point I put it back together went and rode the motorcycle. So it only allows you to shift past second with centrifugal force because they have three tiny little balls. Well I'm going to start to show you the components here but basically there's little ball bearings in here and do you see how that limits the sliding action of this gear? Okay but why don't we focus on the microfiche to show you where these parts are in act. Right here number 37 you've got your shaft and you can see here the little groove that you see on the actual part right in front of you guys. These little balls are inside the gear and they ride in this track and so what happens is ask the motorcycle spins enough RPM the balls fling up into the gear they come out of the track and then it allows movement. Okay I don't know why I don't know what the point of the design is but it's a Kawasaki thing. I still see these on newer bikes older bikes you name it. I'm going to disassemble this. I just wanted to show some of these components. Can you see the ball there? We've just packed it full of grease because that's how you assemble it. You just put some grease on there and that allows you to slide the gear onto the shaft but just let me have their little pick set. I'm going to go ahead here and I'll show you so that ball is pushed up in that hole right there. I'm going to go ahead and push it down to see how it locked it. So it limits the travel. You can spin this usually. See how I flipped it up with the grease and now I got it off. So that is I'm curious to see how it would say in the manual of how to actually get these out. What I've done is just packed a bunch of grease in there from the top side or slid it over as far as I could and put a bunch of grease in there and then when I flipped that up now it allows me to go ahead and remove the gear. Can you imagine what that was like for me though? 22 years old or something. I'm feeling pretty proud and I took a motor apart three different times and couldn't fix it. Now what the interesting part was is could we charge the owner of the motorcycle for any of the transmission service? Zero. The owner of the vehicle is who brought it to us and told us there was transmission problems because he didn't know how a Kawasaki operate either. The guy ended up tipping us if you will because when he bought that bike he bought it dirt cheap from a garage seller what not because it had a bad transmission. Oh wow. Interesting. Sorry. Now he needed the carbs clean and he needed the bike gone through and brought back but he did not need 20, 30 hours worth of labor to do that. So it was a big loss, big learning lesson for me. So as you guys that's another reason here we do all these different motors as we want to be exposed to things that seem outside the boxes. This just sound kind of crazy you guys sitting here thinking that how many people knew that there was a motorcycle out there that wouldn't shift past neutral? Non-running. You knew about the Kawis? Okay. Did you have one or? We have one come into the shop and I tried to just shift it through the gears. I can figure out either in the owner of my boss from the owner of the hotel at the same time. Yeah. It's a Kawasaki. Yeah. I was pretty sure 20 years ago, not near the amount of people knew that. You get what I'm saying. The big fail was two things. I took something apart before reading a manual or before researching it and here's what's going to happen. You guys are going to go to work and you're going to, with today's economy or what not, Kawasaki shops. Do they work on Suzuki's and Honda's and everything else? It's been happening for years but it's a lot more than used to be unless that shop is super, super, super busy with their own product. They're going to take stuff from another dealer or from another brand and you're not going to have the service manual. See, one of you use your resources and I really recommend that. As entry level technicians too, if you get handed that job or you know something's coming and it's on a product that the dealer doesn't normally service, request the literature, request the service information. You guys all know how to find those here. I teach you about trade vent in those different places where we can download those manuals pretty cheap. This is just stuff where you have to have product information or you're going to waste a bunch of time. All right, well that is my, just my quick demo here on Kawasaki Transmissions and you guys all know about the balls and the details.