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WhiteYamBen

22-03-11 23:37

Cush drive rubbers...

Well surprise surprise after a meer 4008 miles, cush drive rubbers are shot, i did think about kev modding it up but cmc offered to replace on warranty. 4008 miles doesnt seam alot for a set of rubbers.
Still, no money out of my pocket.

Travelling_Light

22-03-11 23:51

Sounds about right...

I seem to replace mine every 6K kms, so 4K Miles sounds about right, whats the Kev Mod?

WhiteYamBen

23-03-11 00:31

Quote:

Originally Posted by Travelling_Light (Post 151916)

I seem to replace mine every 6K kms, so 4K Miles sounds about right, whats the Kev Mod?

basically packing it with innertube rubber.

Kev	23-03-11 01:07

I have never replaced my sprocket rubbers in 70000 kms of riding my 3 XT660's, always done the sprocket rubber mod at 5K & all has been good.

Piipz

23-03-11 06:59

Hey Kev, can you post the pic the rubber mod. I can't find it anymore.

Tony660x

23-03-11 08:00

Quote:

Originally Posted by Piipz (Post 151928)

Hey Kev, can you post the pic the rubber mod. I can't find it anymore.

See this thread, this mod is exactly the same for an X, R or Z as detailed.

http://www.xt660.com/showthread.php?t=12422

Travelling_Light

23-03-11 09:23

Thanks All, that'll save a lot of cash over time!

21 incher

28-03-11 01:08

Here too...

Quote:

Originally Posted by WhiteYamBen (Post 151915)

You're not the only one who has had this problem, mine were shot after...well, around the 8000 mile mark I do recall, well, it is a single.

gregor

30-03-11 11:02

Wemoto now list these for the Tenere, about �19 a set iirc.

Useful if yours are too far gone to do the mod.

http://www.wemoto.com/bikes/Yamaha/X..._Tenere/08-09/

enduro374

30-03-11 15:51

Let's hope they're not made of the same soft cheese that Yamaha use.

Travelling_Light

30-03-11 16:33

Cheeese

Quote:

Originally Posted by enduro374 (Post 152634)

Let's hope they're not made of the same soft cheese that Yamaha use.

I bought the Wemoto ones 3,000km's ago, following a wheel-change over the weekend, I can confirm that these will soon be needing the Kev mod. So they are cheesey.

Jinxit

30-03-11 20:42

I did the kev mod to mine. I used a standard Michelin tube. After about 2K miles I had therear whell off for cleaning and found only two bits of tube left. The rest had melted and was in balls of rubber. The cush rubber was also really bad. Maybe i should have used a UHD tube? Any way replaced the tube with some more of the same but will need to check again in a couple of K miles.

Although it helps it is not a complete solution.

Kev	30-03-11 23:23

Quote:

Originally Posted by Jinxit (Post 152660)

This would be the first reported case of the mod not working. You need to make sure you have packed the rubbers very tight so there is no movement in the hub when assembled, you can double up on the inner tube if necessary & can use talcum powder for lube to assemble the hub & sprocket holder together.

Jinxit

31-03-11 12:06

Thanks Kev, Next time the wheel is off i will try to pack it out more. Although it is quite tight and a struggle to get the whell back in as the sprocket carrier is a little proud du to its tightness.

Martin

javahouse

31-03-11 13:36

A mate always does this with his bikes. Swears that spraying everything with WD40 prior to squeezing everything together works well. The tighter the better (to a point) He's not had any failures that I know of.

Had mine apart today, 9100 miles and quite tired, so replaced with wemoto rubbers AND innertube packing. It was pretty tight going back together. I'll report back later.

Rob

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