Gray Area KTM

Alright, so this is the Gray Area KTM Shift Shaft Support Barring setup, along with the Billet short shifter. So, granted, it's a little dirty in here. I've been running this for quite a while now, and absolutely love it, so figured I'd go ahead and make a video on this. So this is the billet piece itself. Pretty easy install. I think the only thing that's kind of a pain was getting the bolt up here lined up. I remember correctly I actually had to take this entire rear set off in order to actually be able to get access to where that bolt is. So, if you're doing this, I would recommend that you also get the oil seal for back here. Maybe consider going ahead and changing that oil seal out early. I think it's a fact that you're taking off a pretty good amount of stuff just to be able to get access to it. So this here is the billet bracket, the short shift bracket. Now obviously it'splined just I'll tell you the splines. It is a far more superior cut. I'll say that the accuracy is, there's a lot more accuracy and precision that's put into these brackets themselves. This here is the original unit. I'll just hold that up there. That kind of gives you an idea of how much shorter it is. So it does require a little bit more force to use it, not much, but I find that the benefits far outweigh the tiny bit of extra force that's actually needed. Bolts does not come with bolts. That's kind of a downfall. I went to Lowe's, got some bolts. I want to say these are I wanted to get some bolts that were actually longer. The idea here is this bracket here. It's I didn't want to reuse my OEM bolts because when you start doing that, then you're looking at a smaller amount of thread engagement on that bolt because of the spacing. And I've had issues And you don't know or have not had a KTM for a while. The al Even using a torque wrench I've had issues in the past where I've ripped out threads in the past, which is not ideal. So what's needed to install this? Pretty simple setup. Racket goes in place. There's actually a bearing sleeve inside of here. Let me see if I can get my light. Right there. See that bronze bearing? That slides right over the shaft and that provides extra support for the shift shaft because it obviously sticks out. And it'so this provides just another means of providing support for that shift shaft because any kind of deflection or flexing that occurs out here is obviously going to be amplified further in and that's going to take a little bit of a toll on your bearings overall. Right? We're talking about long term here. So that helps out quite a bit. As far as installation, pretty straightforward. You are going to, again, You'll need to undo your shift linkage and then you can go ahead and install all this stuff. You'll actually need to pull this off entirely. And with this, there's two bolts in the back. There are 14mm back here. And you get these two 8mm. These hold on a bracket and inside of here is your sensor for your kickstand. Pull that off and you're actually going to have to do some trimming. Right up here for clearancing reasons, you're essentially just going to have to grind that section down. Not a big deal. Just take a, You'll be good to go. Let's throw all this stuff together. No problem. As far as this goes, I got this off of eBay as well. I want to say it's 120mm in length. I did not If you look on here, there's, it's really not much play, right? This is my original one. Okay. And just look how much play there is in this. I mean, massive amounts. So and that's, So pretty much running a washer in the middle is a spacer and then I have an Allen head bolt that runs through. These are actually the OEM Desk Boots. I pulled those off. I was able to use those. Let's pull it back. And that's pretty much it. Just allen head bolt that goes right through and no problems at all. Slide that back on. Okay. All right. So, shifting, right? I mean, I can do it with one hand, but look how little the travel is. And it just makes shifting so much better and so much smoother in general overall and reduced so much of the play. I mean, you can look and see, I'm barely tapping this and it's already starting to see how it's already executing everything. There's no crazy amounts of slop. Everything's nice and smooth. Right? And what's awesome is this can be used if you're doing GP style shifting. This will work on RC 390s, 390 Duke's. This is actually a first gen 390 Duke. I'll show Nothing too crazy. So, yeah. Any questions? Absolutely. Let me know. I'm going to probably end up changing out either the lever or the rear set at some point. And definitely worthwhile. One of my favorite things that I've done so far. One of my favorite, I would honestly say, is R6 rear shock. Huge difference, especially if you're just doing normal driving. So I highly recommend that. If you have any questions, definitely feel free to let me know and I will gladly answer them. That's it for now.