Damn Detent Ball

I got my engine back together after a reverse gear upgrade & noticed that the damn little detent ball on the shift drum is missing... Tried shaking engine upside down (you shoulda seen that)  but still no avail.  dammit man.  Magnet probing produced the detent spring from inside the engine so I guess i'll have to take the s.o.b. back apart  again to see if it is in there .  SUX!!!

By the way James, I still got your 20oz. OD weights. Haven't been used. I'll send them back to you or any address you want if somebody wants to pay you for them.

just send them back here and i will pay you for it or credit...that sux!!

well that just sux.
did you check down around the oil drain plug? you might get lucky drainin the oil.
at least it's been good bike ridin' weather. how's the glide runnin'?

James, you don't owe for the weights, you sent them to me to use till my 16s came in, ( BTW guys, How many places ya know of that will do that? I didn't even ask for them.)  but my reverse went out before I put them in & I have been neglecting the ol Rhino ever since I got the Harley. I started working on it again last week & came across the 2 sets of weights & I need to send the 20s back to you.

Denny, the glide runs so good that I haven't put the rhino back together yet. LOL. I've put 7000 miles on it already & I just got it in May.  Took a couple weeks vacation & rode over to the Outer Banks. Kitty Hawk, Kill Devil Hills, Hatteras & such. Right on down the East coast. That was a couple thousand miles.  Done 950 miles one day... that was too much, Can you say sore ass? 
 I haven't put any oil in the Rhino since putting it back together & I don't hear anything shaking around inside the engine when I shake the engine around but if I don't take it back apart & look for it I know it will be in there. I've got the side covers off and I stuck a magnet in there & pulled out the little spring that keeps tension on the ball so..... back apart it comes. Not really a big deal, I just have to get over the initial cussing stage & face it.

Dang man hate to hear that...I hate doing things twice too...been there before!!

If you rode to the Outer Banks on a Harley ..... I am sure I heard you go by the house!! Hopefully you were entering or leaving on a Saturday. The traffic is bad enough during the week but real bad on the weekends.

Great riding in south Carolina for sure,before I got into riding in w.v. with the rhino, I had a 2002 ultraglide and had a great time riding, until on 2 separate occaisions with my son riding with me I had 2 people pull out in front of me like I was not even there,and about layed it down in the street with my boy on the back of my Harley..i decided to get rid of it and then in 2007 got my rhino and got my son a 4 wheeler and started riding in w.v. and have not looked back,i love Harleys but there are a lot of people on the road that don't know how to drive,in the woods u don't have to worry about a tree pulling out in front of u...lol

Dang it man.....  That's a tough break...

Good luck getting er redone!!!

Hey Wingman, Kitty Hawk has got be a cool place to live. We stayed there at the Holiday Inn Express 2 nights. We stayed at Virginia Beach Sat & Sun & then went to Kitty Hawk Mon & Tues.  I had heard about the rush of traffic on saturdays. We stayed in Hatteras too. Just rode around & explored from Corolla to Ocracoke island. The ferry rides get too long to go any further. The only real traffic jam was when we were getting the ferry back from Ocracoke Island. Great riding & lots of good seafood. I like the secluded beaches of the Outer Banks way better than the commercialized ones like Virginia Beach.

Saturdays is like the march of the penguins. 250,000+ people leave by noon and their replacement shows up by 6pm. Another month and things will slow down once schools open back up.

Yet it still seems like a well kept secret when you have a whole beach as far as you can see both ways to yourself. Especially when going there from Virginia Beach or Murtle Beach or somewhere like that. Especially down near Hatteras.