hey everyone. This gt262 is a garage find, probably sitting for many years (couldn't tell you how many). My role in it all is I was asked by the owner to have a look and see if I could get it running. KNowing nothing about its history, I figured I'd pull it out of her garage and bring it to mine, where I am more comfortable and have all my tools. So, grabbed my trailer, but when I went to move it, it was in gear and the shifter was loose and wobbly. So, muscled it up on my trailer, brought her home, and first thing I did was wash off the years of dust and dirt. Must say, it cleaned up nicely, and this made me a little more positive. So, went on to pulling the seat, rear fender and gas tank to get a good view of the trans and shifter linkage. Well, looks like the last user had a strong arm, because the 2 brackets that hold the crossbar of shifter bar were busted off...thus the loose play in shifter. I am guessing this is were it was put to bed in the garage and left till I came into the picture. So, she's stuck in gear I am assuming? The gear box is a tuff torq by kanzaki by the way. The pulley up top turns and after removing the belt, I was able push it to a location closer to my shop, in gear of course. Neutral would have been nice in this instance. I knocked the gear arm a few times to see if it would break free but it seems quite content where its at. Anyway, so as to get something accomplished, even though I pulled the tank, I wanted to hear her turn over. there was still some gas I could see in the filter, so pulled the neutral sensor and jumped it and had a charger on the battery, and gave her a go. It cranked, and with a little bit of starter spray in the air box, it came to life. So, that made me happy. the carb seemed to handle being woken up like a champ. So, my gut is telling me I got a trans problem. Oil check on trans looked nice and full. couldnt say if it was one of those after the fact fills, where previous user had problem first then added fluid to try and fix. Whatever the case, this is where I'm at. Any help on freeing up the gearbox or any advice or direction would be greatly appreciated. I currently have an la115 that I use all the time, and this gt262 seems like a much better built machine, wanna say more solid, so it would be nice to bring here back to her former glory. thanks ( :
Added a pic so you can see the shifter bar broken and the trans linkage stuck where it's at...wanna say it's one of the higher gears based on my pushing experience.
Added a pic so you can see the shifter bar broken and the trans linkage stuck where it's at...wanna say it's one of the higher gears based on my pushing experience.