All three dealers have tried to adjust it. The problem is difficult to duplicate on dry flat land of a dealership.

 

try wiggling or moving the shifter, it sounds like it isn't engaged completely. Make sure your two screws for shifter are there for the black ****.

 

rockingred My fourman comes out of gear somtimes when I am working it hard?

 

Over 2000+ miles of hard trail-riding, and the trannys has never hiccuped, although I did lose the 2 shifter screws early on!

 

Thanks for the reply's.

When this happens to your machine does it comes out of gear or does it make a grinding sound, or just pop out of gear? A little more info. When my rubicon starts this grinding sound, I am pushing a lot of snow or going up a sand dune, putting a large amount of pressure on the engine. (I live at 8000 feet in Utah)

I have had the dealer adjust the cables 3 times, still does not fix it. I have checked the screws, they are in correctly. Thanks for all for the hints. I will keep trying.

 

today I noticed a odd grind/whine sound after about 2 hours of strait Full throttle at 30MPH (its all it had) breaking trail threw 1 foot of fresh Wet snow that had fallon on the 10' snow base of a slead trail. The sound appeared when I was cutting full throttle cookies in a snow covered parking lot with a icy base. but went away after a 20 min cool down...

 

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what are you talking about hiofficer? the honda matics came out like a year or two ago. Are you one of those guys that has fun just going around posting bullshi*?

 

UrbanCowboy

While its true Honda started using the Hondamatic only two years ago in the Rubicon, it has been used in other Honda products at different times for decades. I think most people first became aware of the Hondamatic when it was used briefly in a 750cc street bike back in the late 1970's. I suspect hiofcer has one of these street bikes. If it's not the 750 I hope he post's what it is.

The bike was not very popular. I think mostly because people like to shift gears on a street bike,but I also remember the bike being SLOW compared to the manual shift version. This is a good example of no matter how good the Hondamatic transmission is, compared to a manual shift tranny in terms of performance its still a compromise. Honda also used the Hondamatic on some of there factory motocross bikes in the 80's. The riders did not like it because the manual shift bikes were faster, particularly off the start. I wonder if Honda chose to go with the torque converter tranny in the Rincon because they were going for more of a sport performance?

 

I rode a late 60's 350cc twin that had a hondamatic, very smooth!

 

when mine pops out of gear u can hear the gear grinding and it spins around hitting the other gear as it slow's down.