06 RS Rage rear heat excanger

[amwarrior]

I have a 06 rage that my girlfriend rides. I studded it for her last year and the studs hit the heat exchanger a few times. The sled has the stock tunnel protectors in it and I am thinking that they may not be tall enough. anyone have the same problem??????

 

[KnappAttack]

Notice the deflection in the tunnel protectors? Yamaha didn't tuck the exchanger up, so it hangs down and when the suspension collapses, the track hits it hard. They need to take a page from Arctic Cats ETT tunnel and suspension team on this one. Angers me this simple stuff gets overlooked. Now do you balme engineering, or the penny pinchers. I'll blame the accounts as this can't be a engineering oversite.

 

[NY_Nytro]

Knapp is correct, it's a poor design. The cooler should be recessed so the track can't hit it even under full compression. Most of the guys who added the cooler to their Warrior, including myself, had the same problem.
Whats happening is that due to the curved protectors only 1 row of lugs contacts the protectors on a hard hit and if the hit is hard enough the lugs will flex (as rubber does) and the the studs hit.
You can thicken the protectors but at the same time you will be reducing the travel. There is also a member that fabricated protectors the travel straight back without a curve, again these will also slightly reduce the travel of the rear skid.

 

[amwarrior]

Is this something that Yamaha will fix or is it my problem because I studded the sled????

 

[NY_Nytro]

Studs are optional so I think you are on your own.

 

[KnappAttack]

The exchanger was the fix for overheating! Just not designed properly in my book. Common sence would tell you your going to loose valuable clearance when the suspension gets close to bottom. Unreal something like this gets passed over.

 

[WarriorBeads]

I believe this was originally an RX mountain application that has been adopted by Warrior/Rage owners....However, I agree that it's a pile of BS that Yamaha doesn't offer an extended heat exchanger protector setup to address the issue.

 

[amwarrior]

heat excanger

My 06 Rage has a rear heat excanger that came on the sled from Yamaha and the studs are eating it up. sled has 1000 miles on it

 

[KnappAttack]

WarriorBeads, The rage has protectors from the factory, but rather than go straight or up like the cats, they drop them down and take up clearance in the tunnel! All they did was solve one problem and created a worse one. Dumbest thing I've ever seen, or very close to it.

 

[WarriorBeads]

KA - Thanks. Wasn't aware of that.....Learn something every day on this site!

 

[snoway]

added a rear heat exchanger to my 02 viper to solve over heating probs....so now it sounds like I will have to add one to my 05 rage????????
no miles on this sled.....is this going to be an issue, I haven;t heard of any overheating problems, but if the 06's have a rear exchanger,...???

 

[KnappAttack]

Don't put it in unless you have too.

 

[yamaha1]

I have an '05 Rage without the additional rear heat exchanger and I have not had any issues with over heating. I ran in some minimal snow conditions last winter and never had an issue.

The quick and dirty way to help out if your light does come on is to throw some snow on your running boards to help keep those exchangers cool.

Y1

 

[snoway]

I have rox sled treads on the viper which covers the top of your running bds. with 1/2" thick foam(insulation) to space out the new treads....always thought that might have restricted the heat from escaping through the top of the running bds.
rear exchanger was an easy fix on the viper....rage exchanger would cost about 3X more than the viper..hope we don't need it.
looking at the tunnelits easy to see that slapping an exchanger in as an after thought could be trouble.