Thruxton Warning - Gear Shift Linkage

The Street Twin, Scrambler and T100 don't use a linkage as the change lever itself clamps directly onto the shift shaft. I wish my SS used a linkage as the selector forks are less likely to get damaged by an impact to the shift lever if the bike is dropped.

 

Happened to me , luckily I was right by an Auto repair and he lent me a 10mm wrench to get it back tight, hit it with blue loctite when I got home and it's been fine since

 

There was a recall for this problem for dealers to reapply a thread locking compound to the threads. Apparently there was a problem with a batch used on the production line permitting the assembly to loosen.

 

My speed rs had the same. As above, I noticed it getting "sloppy " for changing gears and luckily, spotted it with a couple of threads left.
Loctite and all has been well after.

 

Thanks for the heads up I will check mine when back from hols.

Ta

 

I will ring my triumph dealer to check what recalls were do e when I bought it as I know there were a few done

 

The gear linkage recall RM/2020/01 was issued in January 2020.

 

Cheers 99.9% mine would have been done as purchased it nov 2021 but will double check

 

I had problems with gear linkage on both my speed twin and Thruxton R. Both were fixed by my main dealer. Yes disappointing that oem parts should fail on new bikes.

 

I had problems with gear linkage on both my speed twin and Thruxton R. Both were fixed by my main dealer. Yes disappointing that oem parts should fail on new bikes.

 

I very lightly dropped my gen1 Street Twin on the left hand side. Despite holding the bars as she went over I bent the gear change lever and from that point downshifting, especially 4th to 3rd required the lever to be raised slightly before applying downward pressure.

This issue is well known and my local dealer said it would be at least £600 to repair. I bought the parts and did it my self in about 6 hours - £150. If I needed to do this again I recon 3hrs.

The interesting thing was one of the clutch springs was not seated against the pressure plate correctly and there was some ware on the clutch basket pressure plate bolt spigots.

Anyway, I used the revised Triumph gear selector shaft (T1991944 from memory) and now both clutch and gear change are smoother than before the drop. Mine has done 18500 miles.