Cheers and welcome to the forum.

What year bike?

 

02 exc
But i think it has a later engine but not 100% sure,
Thanks

 

Any help or if a mod could move it to a more suitable place would be much appreciated, tearing my hair out with it now

 

Well 1st and 3rd are on the same shift fork.
You are getting 3rd gear?

 

Yep all gears
Bar 1st
Thanks

 

To me it sounds like an obstruction or
a block to the shift fork going down (since 1st is down all the
rest are up).

 

Sounds probable as you say all the rest are there,
What would i need to do roughly to check if that was the problem?
Thanks
C

 

Well #3 is the 1st/3rd shift fork.

It's a bit of a pain in the @ss to get to it.

Just to make it easy on yourself, pull the clutch cover #26 (with the bike
on it's left side) and see how the clutch operates. It may be the
rod is not moving enough to get into first. Other wise you'll have
to pull the ignition cover side apart.

 

I had the spring break no 6 break on the gear selector parts. and couldn't select 1st gear. They are only small springs like a pen spring and easy to fix. That was on my 09 200

 

Is it worth while in there replacing clutch,?
Can you unbend the rod?
Or is it replacement only,
Just makin a parts list and seeing what prices are like,
Thanks

 

I'd replace the disks, you can get them for
under $80 on ebay with springs.

The push rods are like $20 at a dealer, or get one
used on ebay.

#53 50332017200 % PUSH ROD L=179MM 125/200'98 $22.35