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Wow, Shaun, thanks for letting us know! Hope to see you out in our hills and hollers! Best! docc

The gear that drives the vertical shaft (bottom pointer of #5, is that the helical gear?), is left in my gearbox to spin, but with nothing to engage. Is it rattling around? Like a blender blade in a margarita mix?

Looks like the V11 Sport is " passing on the inside . . . . "

Cross posted this to "How to . . ." Too great not to try and archive! Thanks, @Gmc28!

This result posted by @Gmc28 on February 14, 2022.

I gotta love how nervous Mike Campbell gets with the hapless bassplayer, then gives him the , "Yo, bud, we're in > F <" signal at 1:33 . . .

Not sure, either. Gotcha covered, bud.

Probably very few of us saw the 10 duplicate posts that Guzzimax triggered.

That "odometer transmission"/"odometer gear" (GU04762500) looks to be an assembly of five parts: the screw-in "housing", gear driven shaft, two thrust/shimming/striker washers, and the gear that drives the shaft. That last one . . . I guess mine is still rattling around in there . . .

And the Workshop Manual, Gearbox Disassembly N/3, page 4 (last step of 14): "Remove the odometer transmission "Q" [pictured bottom right of page 5] and keep the striker washer positioned inside the gearbox." (emphasis added by this poster.) So, yep, that little booger is down in there. Don't let it ruin your day!

In the gearbox assembly section (N) of the 1999-2001 Workshop Manual, Page 24, I see: " Fit the odometer transmission: Position the shimming washer using the special tool; "

The washers are part of an assembly (odometer gear GU04762500) depicted in the 1999-2000 Parts Catalog under Frame/Dashboard (#5, below). I do believe I can make out those two washers, but it is vague . . .

Flat blade screwdriver, about a #2. Visible in the upper right of this image "Air Bypass Screw" (green arrow):

Yeah, I like the clean look of removing the drive and plugging the hole. The trouble is retrieving the lower thrust washer (I'll look for that on the parts diagram). This is how mine came out - the upper washer is visible, below, on the screw-in part that is inverted in this view. The lower washer, apparently, is below the geared shaft and did not pull out with it . . . I was VERY lucky that the lower thrust washer found its way to be captured, perfectly, on the gearbox magnetic drain plug, below:

Here is the post with the cap, or plug, along with a part number/link:

There is a series of posts I made in "Installing Speedhut Gauges" in How to . . . Let me look for the post specific to the cap. Know that if you decide to remove the drive from the gear box, there are TWO (2) thrust washers that need to come out! Here is a link to the post showing the drive, but with only one of the washers:

Lots of significant changes for an 1800 mile bike. Collectors, and purists, will cringe, and shy away. I once rode a hotted-up GB with the 600 cylinder, 10.5:1 Wiseco piston, and custom semi-downdraft intake for the >no-idle-circuit< Mikuni. It, too, had a SuperTrap exhaust. The fellow told me he stacked every (exhaust) plate he could find in his shop. There must have been twelve, or more! I asked the clever Aussie about his air filter . . . "Filters just slow the air down!"

And then, one more year to the Twentieth South'n Spine Raid ! "Collect Them All ! "

When mine was found cracked, under warranty, the dealer said, "Landing wheel stands will do that." I said I never wheelied it, but his technician said it pulled nice wheelies. He, rather abruptly said he had no recollection of that, whatsoever . . . .

I mean, your 2001 V11 has the spine frame tab for the upper frame plate? Do that. It's just fasteners and fiddly. Bacon surgery.

Today, joined V11LeMans.com . . . 2003.

Interesting, the presence of the LongFrame boss on 2001 V11s! (No new swingarm, just the later, braced lower rear subframe . . .)