I thought I'd report on my experience and give what I hope is the "wrap up report". I want to give a good review of the dealer where I purchased my C14 and the warranty work they did. However I don't want everybody flocking to them with their warranty work unless I get approval first so that will be delayed a bit. If you've read my previous posts on this thread you'll recall that I was filled with dread and woe. Not so any more. Both Brian and Deziner were correct, I was over worrying it. The bike runs as good as it ever has and I'm not experiencing any strange new vibrations, nor any noises, electrical gremlins, or other irregularities. I rode around the area shifting up and down while listening for any noises that were out of place. I even turned on the outside mic on my Sena to listen. I only heard my top case rattling. Went home and removed it and rode some more and all was well. A few days later I loaded up the bike and went to the COG event in Russellville AR. and put over 1300 miles on it. I put paper towels under it last night after the return home and this morning they were all still dry, no oil leaks. I have to say that I was very pleased.
Now to be honest I might have been more accommodating to the service department than others would or could depending on their mechanical abilities. Because of the lower profit margin on warranty work I tried to make the job for them as easy as I could. When they had all the plastic off I went and picked up the plastic, my windshield, the tip over (Top Block) protection and some associated hardware so it wouldn't be laying around their shop. Then when the bike was repaired I trailer-ed it home semi naked and checked things over before I reinstalled the plastic and made sure everything was routed correctly. My C14 is far from stock with a cruise control and various lights and other wiring going many places that I just didn't think should be the service department's responsibility to restore. I'm sure that some here will disagree with me on that. Had I taken all my farkles to the dealer for the original install of same, well then that would be a different story. I installed them all myself and many are involved or in the way during an engine removal. All the hardware was returned to me in several marked plastic bags and I was only missing one of those little white plastic washers that go under the 5mm screws on the fairing. However, I had plenty of spares on hand because I loose one of those almost every time I remove the fairing. On the paper work it only showed 14.5 hours of labor. I'm assuming that is what the maximum is allowed by Kawasaki for the warranty repair, but I'm amazed by that. It would have taken me a month and it still would have been done wrong.
Naturally in the course of the repair, my coolant was changed, my clutch fluid was bled and replaced (I was dreading having to do that), and my oil and filter were changed.
So in the end I am very happy, discounting the initial bad luck of breaking a gear tooth, I've enjoyed the good luck of a successful warranty covered very complicated (IMO) repair.
I hope that Joel's story will end up as well as mine seems to have.