I am reassembling my 2001 cases and the Kaw shop manual for the identification of the shift forks for the output shaft seems to be wrong. In fact, it only seems to go together by swapping the two shift forks so that the shift fork with the offset pin goes on the 4th output gear and the shift fork with the pin in the center goes on the 5th output gear!
I have checked this over and over, and want to confirm it is wrong in the book before I seal up the cases. My manual includes suppliments through 2003.
Can someone with KX500 transmission experience confirm this.
I've tried manually shifting up and down the gears and it seems to work. It's a bit hard to tell with only the RHS case, while trying to shift, spin the shafts, hold the two fork pins in, keep the gears on the shafts, and protect the crank all at the same time.
I find it hard to believe that a factory manual that has been around that long with several supliments would have a major error like this.
Please let me know if you have an opinion as I need to button this baby up tomorrow.
Thanks, Barry