Posted by bob on April 17, 2005, 6:56 pm
Friday, the driveshaft on my bike went out AGAIN. It happened in Feb,
with only 11K miles on the bike. This time, I only had 3k on this
drive shaft/rear end.
WTF??????/
The dealer seems pretty concerned too. He's checking alignment, etc.
I do NOT hotrod the bike.
Any ideas??? (Trade it in is looking good)
cheers
bob
Posted by Bruno on April 17, 2005, 9:04 pm
On 17 Apr 2005 15:56:00 -0700, bob wrote:
>Friday, the driveshaft on my bike went out AGAIN. It happened in Feb,
>with only 11K miles on the bike. This time, I only had 3k on this
>drive shaft/rear end.
>WTF??????/
>The dealer seems pretty concerned too. He's checking alignment, etc.
>I do NOT hotrod the bike.
>Any ideas??? (Trade it in is looking good)
>cheers
>bob
I'm on my fifth Yamaha, all shaft drives, and never had a problem.
Must be something wrong with that particular bike.
--
I'd rather have a bottle in front of me
than a frontal lobotomy.
Posted by bob on April 18, 2005, 9:53 am
Yep. As I said, the dealer was pretty concerned about it too. I
suspect some misalignment, stressing the shaft. They're gonna check it
out pretty carefully.
This time I ain't gonna baby it. I still have a year of the extended
service so this isn't consting me anything but "no bike" time.
If it happens again, I'm gonna start working on Yamaha for a
replacement bike. I belong to the STAR Riding and Touring organization
with a couple hundred members here in Phoenix, so really pissing me off
is probably something they're not going to want to do.
cheers
bob
Posted by Jeremy Yeoman on April 18, 2005, 12:28 pm
> Friday, the driveshaft on my bike went out AGAIN. It happened in Feb,
> with only 11K miles on the bike. This time, I only had 3k on this
> drive shaft/rear end.
> WTF??????/
> The dealer seems pretty concerned too. He's checking alignment, etc.
> I do NOT hotrod the bike.
> Any ideas??? (Trade it in is looking good)
> cheers
> bob
>I had the same thing happen to my bike with 1000 miles on it. The rear end
>was shot and when they put it back together they drove it down the road and
>was still making noise. They took it apart and the drive shaft wasn't
>being held in there right. From the factory they didn't put lock tight on
>some bolts! I was out of a bike for 3 weeks. I asked for a loner, and
>they don't do that not even for a new bike. The owner did loan me his
>personal bike, and I really liked that. I will never buy from anyone else
>just for that reason. I have also had the starter on my 1100 go bad, and
>1000 miles later the new one getting there.
Posted by bob on April 20, 2005, 12:21 pm
Spoke to the mechanic today.
Last time, it was the coupling/ring gear, which they replaced along
with the pinion. They did NOT replace the drive shaft.
This time, it was the shaft itself that stripped the spline. The
mechanic thinks that there was wear on the shaft that they didn't
notice. THIS time they're going to put a new shaft, new coupling, ring
gear...the works. He says there is NO misalignment. We shall see.
I AM going to stress the drive line this time. If it fails again, I'm
talking to Yamaha, not a dealer.
cheers
bob
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>with only 11K miles on the bike. This time, I only had 3k on this
>drive shaft/rear end.
>WTF??????/
>The dealer seems pretty concerned too. He's checking alignment, etc.
>I do NOT hotrod the bike.
>Any ideas??? (Trade it in is looking good)
>cheers
>bob