Saturday I had a “hey man” project to work on. A friend of mine dropped off the carburetor from his Yamaha YFZ450 on Friday night. I generally don’t work on powersports equipment any more these days but this is a friend whom I’ve built many snowmobiles and ATV’s for over the years when I had my business so I told him to bring it by and I’d take a look at it for him.
Disassembled.
Nasty looking inside. Jets plugged up as well. No wonder why it wouldn’t run.
After removing from carb cleaner.
Ready for reassembly.
Thanks for looking.
Mike
. Those "butter" screws are pretty good when you use a JIS driver instead of a P#2. Everyone with a Japanese bike should own a set of Vessel or Hozan drivers.
I've only put 75 miles on it so far and my face hurts from smiling. My 690 was fun, this is another level of fun.That's going to be incredibly fun for you! I miss my 990 Adventure often.
It fantastic to see someone use the correct tool for carb screws, not that I'd expect anything less from you Mike
That's going to be incredibly fun for you! I miss my 990 Adventure often.
Seeing that bike gave me horrible flashbacks to last year on Ophir Pass just outside of Ouray, CO. We were running that trail solo as a last afternoon run and four guys were trying to ride their Adventures up the shale rock shelf road and NOT doing so well. They were exhausted and said they had been there for over two hours by the time we arrived fighting trying to get the bikes up the trail. I tried telling them that wasn't the trail for those bikes inexperienced riders or not and that they should turn around, head back down into Ophir and take the highway around because it got rockier further up the trail. They didn't want to listen and instead blocked the trail for another hour fighting the terrain.
By this time there was a line of about 8 vehicles behind my wife and I who wanted to get by but they wouldn't cooperate and share the trail. One guy in a new JL went around me and started heading down towards them. We tried to help but two of them wanted NO help whatsoever and didn't even want us near them. The other two guys were more than willing and even let another guy ride his bike up while we pushed and tried to keep him upright. Those big heavy bikes went down and went down hard multiple times breaking fairings, mirrors, one clutch lever and one foot brake lever but they still wouldn't let us help nor get past them.
Once we got the two out of the way that would allow us to help we all just bulldozed our way down the trail as it was already around 5:00pm by this time. I hated to do that and leave them on the trail but they really gave us no choice when we wanted to assist them. The guy in the JL had his 85 year old dad with him right in front of us. I thought his dad was going to get into a fist fight with the one guy as he started to get out of the Jeep ahead of us to confront him. Kinda funny, kinda sad but frustrating for sure.
Now every time I see one of those big Adventure bikes I cringe a little.
Mike
Your post just cost me $25It’s time for a LOF service on the 2006 2500HD Duramax. I racked it, removed the tires & wheels for a rotation and it’s also time for brake fluid service. I flushed it just before we moved so it’s a little overdo. I also opted to replace my brake lines seeing as how the truck is 14 years old now so I purchased some stainless steel flex lines to replace the rubber hoses.
The brake line kit come with aluminum crush washers but I’m not a fan of them so I planned on using copper instead. I’ve purchased copper in bulk and I’m getting low do I need to resupply.
Drilled and deburred a hole in the knuckle for an Adel clamp to secure the new brake line.
More to come. I really need to schedule some time to repaint my chassis. It needs it.
Mike
- Those drill guides are such a simple little product, but look like they can make life so much easier.
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