'09 NYTRO BLOWN BELT / CLUTCH DAMAGE ISSUE!!!

[billey100]

belt life is not the point. That unnecessary aluminum plate is the point. It was that shield that caused the damage, not the belt. As far as the dealer can tell, the bottom plate serves no useful purpose. As a previous poster pointed out, there are 2 plates. The bottom one caused the problem, and is completely unnecessary.

The bottom line is that belts fail. 500 miles, 5000 miles, who knows they just do. The post was to make us aware of a possible problem which yamaporn did. Take the information and do what you want but don't bust someone for posting or giving their 2 cents.

Thanks for the info.

Sorry billey100 but a good engineer always should research every conceivable scenario. That's what engineers do!

I hear ya Grizz what they should and want to do isnt really always whats in the budget.

I think it is important that people know for sure that this happened. I am just saying the way he said it as if that plate was totally useless is a statement that he obviously knows nothing about besides what his dealer is saying. Why cant you just get on here and say hey my belt blew and from hitting that plate it caused more damage. Adding that its a piece of #*$&@ plate and should have never been there is a little far. I personally had the wet boot and had my dealer put the plate in and now I have no wet boot so it obviously does something.

I too change my belt each year for piece of mind but thats not really helping him in this situation.

 

[grizztracks]

So you like the plate and he doesn't. The biggest thing that will come from this post is that we are informed and now can make are own decisions.

I do believe if it happened to you (or anyone) and the repair bill was coming out of your pocket you may think differently.

Billey100, I'll be on the hill the second week of January (with a few guys, wife is staying home). if your going up and want to try out my setup PM and we'll get together. I think we're stay at the Ridge View.

 

[dirkdiggler]

So you like the plate and he doesn't. The biggest thing that will come from this post is that we are informed and now can make are own decisions.

I do believe if it it happened to you (or anyone) and the repair bill was coming out of your pocket you may think differently.

Billey100, I'll be on the hill the second week of January (with a few guys, wife is staying home). if your going up and want to try out my setup PM and we'll get together. I think we're stay at the Ridge View.

People don't take any personal responsibility anymore!!! it's always someone Else fault!!!

 

[arteeex]

Yeah! And some people like creamy peanut butter and others like crunchy! It's always something.

Go figure.

 

[SledFreak]

Yeah! And some people like creamy peanut butter and others like crunchy! It's always something.

Go figure.

What??????????? Your a wild man on the key board...

 

[Daranello]

Yeah! And some people like creamy peanut butter and others like crunchy! It's always something.

Go figure.

true my wife and i always fight over this

 

[dirkdiggler]

Yeah! And some people like creamy peanut butter and others like crunchy! It's always something.

Go figure.

that analogy doesn't work if it's in response to my post.

 

[DeerHuntr]

Good post, I have 1400 miles on my belt and haven't ridden yet this year but with 10-15" forecast between tonite and Sat I will be soon . I just changed mine even though the other one looks great still. That metal plate is a joke IMO, can definately see how it could get destroyed very easily if the belt blows.

 

[2008FxNytro]

There is a width for the belt recommendations in the manual i believe....I have 5500 on my original belt. Changed it a couple time and delaminated new ones so kept running the orignal. Saw the post about secondary spring becoming weak...with new clutch kit in this year and one of the parts being new secondary spring, i rode 114 miles on the hill last weekend and had no belt issues at all.

 

[Brendo]

Yeah my plate got demoed too blew a belt and it crinckled that plate like paper so I removed it and now my left foot gets soaked!

 

[LJ 452]

Add another to the list. Last year on the last 5 miles of the year I smoked a belt at WFO! I thought I felt it delam, but thought ah, it's only a few more miles back to town and I'm going to change it for next.. WHAM. MMM. I gues I'm changing it now. Nothing like knowing you exploded a belt as you open the side panels. Sure enough, chicken (as we call the cords) everywere. It's was even under my seat, as I found out in the summer. Anyway it grabbed the wet boot plate and turned it into what could be considered an aluminum rose. Maybe I could sell it at an art show. I planed to redesign the plate as it did work, just didn't hold up, as posted before the first time I looked at it I thought boy, if a belt hits that it's toast. Bot it's also about 15% of the circumference so I figured I had a 15% chance of it catching. Murphy's law at it again.

 

[JTSKIR222]

500 miles on my rtx se
belt blew...
not going to like a sled that eats belts...
hope this is just a fluke.

 

[turkster]

Last weekend I blew a belt on a ride on Tug Hill on my '09 XTX. Apparently on the 09's, Yamaha added an aluminum plate underneath the clutch along the bottom to help deflect water, because some guys complained with the 08 Nytros that their left foot was getting wet as the clutch threw melted snow around. Well, when the belt blew it grabbed this aluminum plate and crumpled it up like paper. The real problem was, it stuck in the secondary and scraped the hell out of the inside of my outer sheath on the clutch! Now I'm having an expensive repair done to replace the outer sheath! The dealer said mine was the 2nd he'd seen in 2 DAYS with exactly the same issue!!!

Yamaha should cover this under warranty since it was due to poor design. A blown belt should not cause a clutch replacement! I bet Yamaha does nothing for me though, saying they do not warranty damage due to blown belts. TAKE MY ADVICE: REMOVE THIS STUPID ALUMINUM PLATE BEFORE YOU BLOW A BELT! THE DEALER DOING THE REPAIR HAS RECOMMENDED THE SAME THING!

Scmidt Bros. makes a plate or guard that will work and protect your belly plastic as well. Factory looks like an accordion to start off with. After blown belt it looks like a crushed pop can. Try straightening that out on the trail.

 

[YamBam]

X2 Schmidt Bros. Works great.

 

[canoehead]

There's a member on here that makes these. $70.00 CDN plus shipping is a deal right now.
I run one. Nice piece of kit.
It's on Kijiji.ca in Saskatchewan search under "Yamaha Nytro belt guard"