Honda CR 250M gearbox

[Kev]

Hi all
I have a 74 CR 250 that has a suspect gear box. I have taken the clutch case off and can select gears while watching the selector pawl on the selector drum. Is it normal in a static situation to not grab all the gears ? Just wondering if the gears need to be rotating to make the gear selection. I would think that I should be able to select the gears by moving the gear lever and get all gears but I could be wrong. This gearbox only grabs a gear up or down after that the selector arm does not move far enough to grab the next pin in the selector drum.

Kev

[matcho mick]

Kev, yeah,sometimes you need to spin the shafts to get them shifting,usually then dogs will all line up ,& shift up/down,hold bit of tension on gearlever,& rotate a shaft,then you will find drops into a gear,pretty normal static on the "bench situation",but if your'e experiencing shift probs when riding (your sus box query),the above might not show up worn/bent shift forks,so really you should split cases & have a sticky,cheers
ps sorta remember bitd ,3rd was a problem on early CR's??

[Kev]

Thanks Mick, that's what I was hoping. I have very little experience mechanically so I'm trying to avoid splitting the cases.

[Kev]

Ok I attached a drill and socket to rotate the main shaft and while spinning that I then held pressure on the gear lever and all gears were selectable. Thanks for the tip.