So I'm putting my tranny back in and I see that the helical gear on the part in the transmission the trasmits to the speedometer cable has some wear... Do you guys lube these things? I wonder if this is what makes my speedo flutter.
don't know about the speedo but wanted to make sure you know to put the clutch bits back in before the swingarm was this just a spline lube or did you have other issues that caused you to pull the gearbox?
Started out as spline lube and turned into gearbox upgrade with circlip after I found some rather worrisome metal shavings in the tranny. Well, it probably cant't hurt to put a little of the stuff I used on the splines.
I'm pretty sure the spiral grooves at the end opposite the gear teeth lift oil up into it. I just put a transmission together and into my ST. I wiped the speedo gear with gear lube, dropped it in place, and dribbled some more gear lube in on top of it to keep it happy until the gear lube in the transmission starts making its way into everywhere it is supposed to go. The wear you see on the teeth is normal as long as its just shiny and no pitting. The contact area with the teeth on the output flange is pretty narrow and shows the narrow wear strip you see on the speedo gear.
