Checkswrecks
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I've got a 2004 that I bought a year ago with very few miles and it now has 18000. I took it in for the TPS recall a few weeks ago and the junior mech thought that rather than a ticker, my noise was something from the cat converter loose in the head pipe. He's young, had only one side fairing off, and I knew I'd be in there soon. I had the fairings off over the weekend to flush coolant & do the winter mx and got out the ol' stethoscope. No question, it's the #1 exhaust. I showed it to the service manager, he agreed, and he explained it to Yamaha HQ.
I'm the second owner of a 4-year old bike and Yamaha agreed to do parts and labor for the exahaust valves. I'm on the hook for anything else, which sounds fair to me. I previously worked at a Suzuki dealer and got shafted by Triumph's lack of support on a common Sprint problem.
[SIZE=12pt]So before anything else, because of their doing the right thing, my hat's off to Yamaha and when the time comes, I'll look at new Yamahas. [/SIZE] Actually, I've been drooling over 2008s, but that's another story...
Having been around here awhile and using the search function, I knew to order up the head bolts and I asked for a quote on doing the intakes. What I'm surprised about is to hear how little else people have had issues with. I saw IonBeam's string about cam chain tensioners, but little else.
So here's my question: While the top of the motor's apart, is the group experience with needing other items as good/quiet as it seems?
Bob
I'm the second owner of a 4-year old bike and Yamaha agreed to do parts and labor for the exahaust valves. I'm on the hook for anything else, which sounds fair to me. I previously worked at a Suzuki dealer and got shafted by Triumph's lack of support on a common Sprint problem.
[SIZE=12pt]So before anything else, because of their doing the right thing, my hat's off to Yamaha and when the time comes, I'll look at new Yamahas. [/SIZE] Actually, I've been drooling over 2008s, but that's another story...
Having been around here awhile and using the search function, I knew to order up the head bolts and I asked for a quote on doing the intakes. What I'm surprised about is to hear how little else people have had issues with. I saw IonBeam's string about cam chain tensioners, but little else.
So here's my question: While the top of the motor's apart, is the group experience with needing other items as good/quiet as it seems?
Bob