Preventative Maintenance
 

What else would be recommended to be doing as prevention rather than cure with electrical connections & general grease/ lubricating ,on new Tenere apart from the swing arm & head bearings?
I'm looking to keep this one for a while so would like to keep it as reliable as possible.
Hopefully I'll be ordering Kev's Fuel mod & CO2 soon followed by DNA filters when the originals are a bit grubby.
Sorry if this is a repeated question or thread but I go a bit cross eyed looking at a small phone screen searching for to long.

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Thanks Pepsi,
I like the sound of sorting things over a coffee ( or beer ) In the comfort of my own home instead of under darkness in the rain in the middle of nowhere.
Hopefully I won't get arrested hanging around the gymnastic club to long trying to 'acquire' some matting !

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Go with oiled foam or the standard yamaha paper filter if yer intend to keep the ten for a while...
DNA / K&N are great filters for road use..but they will let dust though....

Here's a picture to illustrate the abrasion points on the loom that Pepsi is talking about. The main culprit is the spur for the injector (circled), which has been known to have caused a number of non-runners. I used foam pads that glaziers use to separate glass in transit, but old inner tube, or whatever you can lay your hands on will do.

http://i864.photobucket.com/albums/a...psd6f087fd.jpg

Watch out for the top radiator hose rubbing through on the inlet valve inspection cover bolt heads - I've had to pack this out too.

Another couple of things that spring to mind that you can add to your growing list of jobs...

Chain adjusters - take them out and grease the whole thread.

Treat the caliper sliders and pad pins with "red" brake grease.

Give the spokes a covering of ACF-50 (and everything else that isn't plastic or protected by paint for that matter!)

Waterproof the reg/reg connector with dielectric grease.

Cheer's Fella's,
Looks like I'll have plenty to keep me busy over Christmas rather than watching Indiana Jones or Star Wars again.

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Some good advice on here for me, iv'e recently purchased a 2012 660Z which iv'e enjoyed riding and getting right into the bike, it's a totally different type of bike to what iv'e been used to for the last 30 odd years or so of biking, anyhow i put the bike away after a decent but wettish boxing day, didn't use it for a few days after due to icy roads and been lazy over the xmas period, went to start it up a couple of days ago with no joy, battery seemed ok but i put it on charge anyway and bought new plug for it, tried it again yesterday after putting fully charged battery back on along with new plug(genuine ngk) and still no joy, didn't have much garage time on my hands yesterday so i just give it a good spraying of wd40 and left it, managed to start it today and went for a couple of hours ride with no probelms but think i'd better start doing some wet weather maintenance sharpish as i usually keep my bikes for a long time and hopefully the XT will be a keeper as well.

Yamaha might be reading xt660.com as I found a foam pad already on the frame where the injector wire runs past. But added some more anyway after this photo was taken. Tenere's a Nov 12' model.
[IMG] http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e3...ps66e04039.jpg[/IMG]

With the extra padding using some old push bike road tyres.
http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e3...ps8933b0ed.jpg

Another spot where wires were rubbing is by the top right radiator mount because of the single zip tie securing it. so I re-secured these with 2 zip ties in 'Daisy chain' type fashion. As to keep the wires close to the frame. http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e3...ps30b5fc91.jpg

...closer to the frame. ( sorry a but of text was cut off in posting ). http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e3...ps28190d3a.jpg

Interesting that. Can anyone else with a later model Ten confirm that the additional pad stuck to the frame is an official Yamaha improvement?

If it is, it would mean that (as Desert Racer suggests) Yamaha are aware of the injector wiring is a problem. Which therefore begs the question why they haven't advised dealers, or at instructed them to retro-fit the pad to earlier bikes?

If you poke a finger up the inside frame where the two frame tubes intersect behind the tank, you can easily feel if a foam pad has been fitted without taking the tank off. I already had mine off as to re-locate my O2 eliminator next to the throttle cables out the way.

http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e3...psf2b5e35d.jpg

Just for info, I've just had the Swing arm & Head set apart for greasing (even though the bike hasn't covered 2000kms from new yet) as I've heard of Yamaha being a bit light handed with the grease gun.

Swing arm main pivot was good (probably would have done 12 months) but the linkages where a bit dry.
Steering head top bearing was good but bottom one was dry.
The bonus was though that my old DRZ Steering head spanner also fits the Tenere which makes life easy.

It may be worth considering loosening the Swing arm main pivot bearing occasionally & spinning it in place to help prevent it from ceasing in there, rather than having to bash it out with a hammer, & having to go & get another nut & bolt, just a thought. :047:

Cheers Ken

Had a go at the Cush Rubbers today as there was a bit of movement starting in the sprocket carrier.
http://tapatalk.imageshack.com/v2/15...89397bf770.jpg
There was still a small bit of movement so I put another piece of inner tube in against the smaller blocks next to the hub.
http://tapatalk.imageshack.com/v2/15...95e86eae2a.jpg
Now the sprocket carrier is firmed up nicely.
On measuring the depth of the lugs that go between the rubber blocks they are about 25mm & the depth inside the hub itself is about 35mm. So the sprocket carrier lugs are only sitting against a half to two thirds of the Cush rubbers. Maybe that's why they get destroyed so quickly. Hopefully now I won't have to touch them again for a fair while. ( Thanks to Kev ).

I couldn't get my hands on any ACR 50 so I used this on the spokes instead,
http://tapatalk.imageshack.com/v2/15...8074aa10b9.jpg
The write up sounded as though it would achieve the some thing as ACR.
http://tapatalk.imageshack.com/v2/15...3f1756e6fe.jpg
It does stay tacky for a while so probably best to leave it overnight before going anywhere dusty.
http://tapatalk.imageshack.com/v2/15...6f5a57f724.jpg
All done & ready to go.

The other useful thing I learned today after struggling before is you don't have to touch the chain adjusters when you remove the back wheel ! Which makes life a lot easier. Doh.

Hi Desert Racer, great write up. I was finding various bits of loom rubbing yesterday when I had the tank off. Seeing how clean + shiny your spokes and wheel are has made me ashamed of mine!! I shall put a bit more effort in! Steve

Dirt has no shame!