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- 2005 Yamaha Vector
2018 Ski doo renegade sport
Hi All,
I just went through a week of hell repairing my 2005 Yamaha Vector. A few threads I read saved me so I figured I would sign up and post my experience to help someone else dealing with the same problems.
Last season my stator went at 4995 miles and ruined my trip and ended my season. Dropping it off at a shop for a $1000 repair bill was not an option. I thought I had purchased the most reliable snowmobile on the planet.
I had heard about the camshaft tensioner issues so I decided that while I was in there I would do everything: stator, pulsar coil, new blue dot cam chain tensioner, copper exhaust donuts, grease jackshaft/driveshaft bearings the whole works.
I made the big mistake of purchasing a SPI stator assembly on EBAY because it was $130 versus $275 for the yamaha. It took me an entire day to get to the point when I had the rear motor mount bolt out and the motor jacked up to where i could remove all the stator cover bolts. It was my first time so i was not familar with everything. Grizztracks saved my butt with his tutorial. So I install the new SPI stator and put the whole machine back together. NO SPARK at all..nothing. The machine ran on a jump box before I started. I scoured the internet and came upon a post that someone else had installed a SPI stator and had no spark. They said they fixed it and the SPI pulsar coil was bad. Well the exact same thing happend to me. The SPI pulsar coil was bad and not sending voltage to the ECU which means no juice to the coils and no spark. I got a brand new yamaha stator/ pulsar coil installed and the machine ran perfect. I could have just installed my original yamaha pulsar coil and still used the SPI stator but its way to much labor to chance it and have to go in there again.
I followed grizztracks and everyones input on the cam chain tensioner and other than it being a PITA it went flawless and my timing was not disturbed thanks to zip tying the chain to the gears and following grizztracks instructions.
My original exhaust donuts were disentergrated upon removal at 5k miles. I installed the copper donuts. Someone in the forums said that you do not need to unbolt the muffler or the exhaust hangers and they are correct. If you pull out the rear motor mount bolt you can jack up the motor and pop off the exhaust and replace the donuts without messing with the exhaust hangers or muffler.
Finally I have to say that purchaing my 2005 Yamaha vector has been a mistake in my book. I reasearched my purchase thoroughly and honestly thought i was purchasing the pillar of reliability and dependability. Between the new stator, new cam chain tensioner, new donuts, ruined trips and the week of my life that I lost im not happy with my purchase at 5k miles in. I have a 2000 polaris xc500sp with 10k miles with the motor completely untouched.
I bought a brand new 2018 ski doo renegade and will never even consider yamaha again. I know many if you will think im a cry baby but im just being honest. Yamaha never recalled the stator or cam chain tensioner despite many documented failures.
I just went through a week of hell repairing my 2005 Yamaha Vector. A few threads I read saved me so I figured I would sign up and post my experience to help someone else dealing with the same problems.
Last season my stator went at 4995 miles and ruined my trip and ended my season. Dropping it off at a shop for a $1000 repair bill was not an option. I thought I had purchased the most reliable snowmobile on the planet.
I had heard about the camshaft tensioner issues so I decided that while I was in there I would do everything: stator, pulsar coil, new blue dot cam chain tensioner, copper exhaust donuts, grease jackshaft/driveshaft bearings the whole works.
I made the big mistake of purchasing a SPI stator assembly on EBAY because it was $130 versus $275 for the yamaha. It took me an entire day to get to the point when I had the rear motor mount bolt out and the motor jacked up to where i could remove all the stator cover bolts. It was my first time so i was not familar with everything. Grizztracks saved my butt with his tutorial. So I install the new SPI stator and put the whole machine back together. NO SPARK at all..nothing. The machine ran on a jump box before I started. I scoured the internet and came upon a post that someone else had installed a SPI stator and had no spark. They said they fixed it and the SPI pulsar coil was bad. Well the exact same thing happend to me. The SPI pulsar coil was bad and not sending voltage to the ECU which means no juice to the coils and no spark. I got a brand new yamaha stator/ pulsar coil installed and the machine ran perfect. I could have just installed my original yamaha pulsar coil and still used the SPI stator but its way to much labor to chance it and have to go in there again.
I followed grizztracks and everyones input on the cam chain tensioner and other than it being a PITA it went flawless and my timing was not disturbed thanks to zip tying the chain to the gears and following grizztracks instructions.
My original exhaust donuts were disentergrated upon removal at 5k miles. I installed the copper donuts. Someone in the forums said that you do not need to unbolt the muffler or the exhaust hangers and they are correct. If you pull out the rear motor mount bolt you can jack up the motor and pop off the exhaust and replace the donuts without messing with the exhaust hangers or muffler.
Finally I have to say that purchaing my 2005 Yamaha vector has been a mistake in my book. I reasearched my purchase thoroughly and honestly thought i was purchasing the pillar of reliability and dependability. Between the new stator, new cam chain tensioner, new donuts, ruined trips and the week of my life that I lost im not happy with my purchase at 5k miles in. I have a 2000 polaris xc500sp with 10k miles with the motor completely untouched.
I bought a brand new 2018 ski doo renegade and will never even consider yamaha again. I know many if you will think im a cry baby but im just being honest. Yamaha never recalled the stator or cam chain tensioner despite many documented failures.
