2nd gear

I am replacing bad 2nd gear, and taken out the middle gear. But I cannot find the special tools or adaptor show on the service manual. The adaptor supposed to release the tension on the nut on the middle gear. I found the guy made own adaptor but it way too big. Please let me know if there are...

Got an opportunity to grab a vmax, stripped down completely to frame. Owner says it ran great, obviously i can't test that. It was pulled apart because it was getting beautified. It's an early bike, could be prone to the 2nd gear issue. What's a good price for a complete bike, but...

Hi, I'm chomping at the bit to buy an older Vmax. First I would like to know if the parts that were updated between 85 and 07 can be easily thrown on an older Vmax that didnt originally have them (eg. front forks, ignition system, brakes, etc). Also, can the updates that fixed the 2nd...

So I've got a '97 with ~20k miles that i picked up this summer. I rode it for about a month before second gear started skipping/slipping under full throttle at high rpm's. After researching here I concluded undercutting the tranny through Sean's shop this winter is the way to go. I continued to...