FZS 600 - Gear lever sticking? What Do?

[zark]

No idea if I'm thinking along the right lines with this...

03 plate Fazer, 58k on the clocks ( 8O )

My commute is about an hour, and for the second half of it (so engine warm, oil warm) sometimes when I change up a gear, the lever stays high, so it's not there when I want to change up another cog, or I have to tap it down to the middle position with my boot, to then lift it up to engage the next great etc... All a bit annoying if I'm trying to smash the traffic light grandprix, or even just not get lorry-squashed.

So, is this a 'thing'? I've tried an oil and filter change, but no difference. the good book shows a spring on the other end of the gear select shaft (next to clutch plates) that I could replace... But would mean binning some nearly new oil, and a gasket for the sake of a £2 spring. But if that's what it is, I suppose I'll have to do it? Seems better when cold too?

Edit: number 2 on this schematic

I just don't want all that aggro for it to make no difference, or be something else altogether!
Clutch cable only a month old. Oil, new. Cleaned a load of crud from behind the sprocket cover, but nothing that'd stop the gear lever returning to centre??? It's fine going down through the gears, though feels like putting your foot in a bag of mud sometimes... Not the nice positive 'snick' into gear that I'm used to...

TL:DR gear lever doesn't always return to centre, gear change a bit off sometimes. Fix with new spring or should I be looking elsewhere??
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[andym]

Try a quick spray of WD40 around where the gear lever connects to the engine first (I've had a similar problem).

If it improves then take the lever off and give it a good greasing up

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[Chris45]