FZS600 Gear issues, any thoughts?
Discussion
Hi all,
My beloved FZS600 is having some fairly nasty sounding gear issues.
This happens mostly in 6th but it does have issues in others, just not as often.
Basically in 6th it sounds like it wants to pop out of gear, it revs high and the grinding/mechanical sound is awful. When I pull the clutch in it mostly goes away.
The optimist in me said do the clutch plates and they may fix it, although its largely 6th that does it. I've done that today and it still has the same issue.
The issue is now creeping down to other gears, but mainly when I'm easing off and not accelerating.
The bikes done almost 85k and served me very well, I wanted to just keep it going until I need to replace it from the London rules next year
Any thoughts are appreciated.
My beloved FZS600 is having some fairly nasty sounding gear issues.
This happens mostly in 6th but it does have issues in others, just not as often.
Basically in 6th it sounds like it wants to pop out of gear, it revs high and the grinding/mechanical sound is awful. When I pull the clutch in it mostly goes away.
The optimist in me said do the clutch plates and they may fix it, although its largely 6th that does it. I've done that today and it still has the same issue.
The issue is now creeping down to other gears, but mainly when I'm easing off and not accelerating.
The bikes done almost 85k and served me very well, I wanted to just keep it going until I need to replace it from the London rules next year
Any thoughts are appreciated.
Mr OCD said:
Is that the similar engine as what the Thundercat has? ... IIRC they suffer from gear (fork) selector wear and on those it is an engine out job...
same engine basically, and it does sound knackered by your description OP, don't know why you'd throw clutch plates at it if only certain gears were affected 
Jazoli said:
same engine basically, and it does sound knackered by your description OP, don't know why you'd throw clutch plates at it if only certain gears were affected 
New bike it is then, shame, its covered the miles so well
Thank you all
Deranged Granny said:
Why not save yourself the bother and buy a 2007- bike now and minimise the cost to change before they attract a relative premium?
When I was talking about this a couple of years ago many said I was stupid to think that and that just buy and sell outside of London.. I dumped my 2006 blackbird in Feb 2016 accordingly changing to a 2011 Speed. Advanced planning for this and knowing my mrs wasn't going to sign off another bike purchase post birth of our son too 
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