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So I've put a few hundred miles on this voyager since I got it, but last night was pretty scary, I think my final drive exploded.. was happily cruising along at like 80 when all of a sudden it sounded like someone dropped a bunch of rocks in my engine, it was very loud, sounded like something failed catastrophically, and I was terrified any second what ever was bouncing around would catch and lock up my rear wheel at those speeds. Luckily that didn't happen, and more luckily this happened at an off ramp so i was able to coast off the freeway. I haven't been able to take the bike apart at all yet, but its for sure an issue with the final drive. Engines still fires right up and purrs along thankfully, shifts through all the gears, but as soon as you start to let the clutch out the bike wont move forward at all, instead as you let the clutch out the bike will start to squat (like when your accelerating hard) and it will actually totally stall out the motor without moving the bike an inch, if I give it a little throttle when letting the clutch out to keep it from stalling, itll squat, then finally break loose whatever broke and it basically sounds like someone is hitting the drive shaft with a hammer, hard and fast. The bike wont move at all, just bangs the drive shaft.
Has anyone ever experienced this?? I've been a professional bike mechanic for years and this is honestly the first time I've ever heard of a stock bike having any kind of issue with its driveshaft. I can still see the u joint in place. anyone wanna take bets? I figure i either literally snapped my drive shaft in half, or I blew out the splines that go into the gear. I've definatly been pushing this bike somewhat since I've gotten it, Its been up to redline more then enough, but i was literally just cruising in traffic maintaining speed when it broke.
Onto my main question, my whole purpose of this bike is to turn it into a turbo bagger. It'll happily cruise at 80 at around 4200 rpm or so, which isn't bad, I mean my r1 doing 80mph is cruising along at 7000rpm! but it also revs up to 14k. But still, I try shifting into an imaginary 6th gear almost daily, like that extra gear would just be perfect. When the turbo eventually gets added I feel like even more I would want that extra gear for cruising.
I read alot about the hondasaki rear end conversion that was done on here, but I think its just a little past my skills, im not a good welder and how he had to weld the 2 shafts together makes me nervous, especially about holding up to the power this will put out with a turbo. Since then has anyone else found another way or option to change the gearing to the back? and is the gearing between the vn and the kz the same. looks like the voyager rear end is 3.83 is that the same for the kz? If only there was a way to convert to chain drive. If I can get the rear end taken apart this weekend ill try and get some pictures of it.
anyone have a a spare rear end they wanna sell??
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