I'm looking at buying a 2001 660 Raptor from it's original owner. After asking the guy about any transmission problems he answered with "I had an aftermarket shift fork installed because I was awar of the problem and wanted to prevent it from happening" Has anyone heard of this, just want to make sure he's not trying to pull a fast one on me.

Thanks

 

Its the gears not the shift fork. you have to upgrade the transmision gears to 02 or newer.

 

dont sweat the tranny B/S. Get it! great bike!

 

when the tranny detonates, the shift and shaft usually go as well. The gears are still the problem though.

~HoundDog

 

I don't know what to do. I know when I go see it this weekend I'm going to want it but I'm worried about the tranny.

 

dont sweat the tranny, its worse then it appears. it happends to like 1 in every 1,000 bikes. everyone hears about the problem, freaks, and spends 600$ on new gears.. The bike will be fine, oh, and ask him howmuch the "shift fork" was, maybee he updated the tranny and didnt know what it was called?