This last trip at Glamis I was running up China Wall on my 2001 DS in 3rd, went to shift down to second and hit neutral. Obviously on a hill that steep you come to a full and complete stop in about half a second. So I got down off the hill and didn't try it again since we wanted to go for a ride. However it doesn't seem to miss a beat at any other time, I haven't been riding it much this last year (i was using the Baja quite a bit) and it's been babied all of it's life. I've done some searches and nothing I found touched on this subject at all, the closest thing I found was people having trouble shifting from first to second, but missing an entire gear seems odd. I suppose it's possible I hit it too hard, however I rode my Baja up the same hill in the same gear etc without any problem just two weeks before. From the posts I've read, people seem to blame the shifting forks any time a machine is shifting out of normal, and the 2001s have the weaker forks, so I suppose that could be the problem, however it seems to do pretty well otherwise. I guess if it's something that troublesome I'll just leave it alone till it breaks. Replacing those shift forks means splitting the cases, right? Or is there something else that could be easier to do that might help if this problem persists (assuming I didn't just hit the lever too hard.)

 

There is always the possiblity of a shift fork being bent just slightly in this case. But if this is the first and only time I would say it was prolly just a bad shift. The shift forks are not as fragile as you might think. It's when we abuse them that they get bent out of shape[img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-wink.gif[/img] Hey I made a funny....any way. If you amsh down to hard to many times or even one time in some cases to hard your gonna prolly end up with shift fork issues.