Well we had our 2008 IronDog Safety inspection yesterday. The 2008 IronDog will start Sunday Feb. 10th.
There were 42 pro teams regesterd to race.
Here are YOUR 5 Yamaha teams. Pretty nice looking sleds! LOTS of work went into each of these sleds! Nice job guys! I will enjoy seeing you Irondog racers along the trail and check points and Hopefully each will arrive in Fairbanks Sat. Feb 16 after 1971 miles of rough trail!
Good Luck to each of the Yamaha Teams and racers!
Team #2 Will Burton and Jeremy Neeser
Team #5 Stephen Spence & Wayne Wold
Team #23 Jeff Whitstine & Mark Niver
Team #32 Chris Downs & Ryan Swanson
Team #35 Gary Higdon & Calvin Monroe
There were 42 pro teams regesterd to race.
Here are YOUR 5 Yamaha teams. Pretty nice looking sleds! LOTS of work went into each of these sleds! Nice job guys! I will enjoy seeing you Irondog racers along the trail and check points and Hopefully each will arrive in Fairbanks Sat. Feb 16 after 1971 miles of rough trail!
Good Luck to each of the Yamaha Teams and racers!
Team #2 Will Burton and Jeremy Neeser
Team #5 Stephen Spence & Wayne Wold
Team #23 Jeff Whitstine & Mark Niver
Team #32 Chris Downs & Ryan Swanson
Team #35 Gary Higdon & Calvin Monroe
NyTrOMaNIaC
TY 4 Stroke Master
I see some pretty neat spindle and a arm mods there, shocks look wicked too Jeff, very interesting.....
Best of Luck to you guys !
I'll be following it closely 
Best of Luck to you guys !
I'll be following it closely 
TurboJamie
TY 4 Stroke God
Geeze those A arms look like they have some support.
Ok time to come clean... Sorry I wouldn't comment on the boards before... (had my reaons but gladly discussed things off line)
IMHO....
EACH of you guys NO MATTER HOW HARD YOU RIDE need to do 5 things to your sleds. If you want to keep them straight! In order....
* brace the upper a-arms towards the inside
* brace the spindles in the 'bow tie' area where lower arm mounds. you can improve this by covering the whole outside area also.
* tie the front mounting bolt holes of upper a-arms together with a 1"x 3/16" strap steel (you'll have to relocate some electronics but that is easy enough) & notch the piece you are installing.
* box in the WHOLE frame from underneath! (between the skid plate and frame)
*tie together the lower a-arm mounts to each other (between the front and rear mounting points)
* Replace ball joints in lower a-arms with greaseable ones... stock ones show wear with in 200 miles and can be all but completely gone by 1000 miles.
IF you can do these things you sleds WILL be 100% bullet proff of ANY tral conditions! (that was targeted towards the guys that claim they have hit nothing but have bent their front ends! Nothing can stop a direct hit from doing damage!!! We shall try to avoid that!
I can't post pics now as I have a busy week ahead those that do have pics of any of these that I sent them fell free topost if you want....
We have solutions to issues with the rear skid but no one is talking about them nor does it appear anyone else is having issues so until they start cropping up ..... I will post a pic of our rear skid early on and you guys can see some improvements.... (it'll take keen eyes to notice ALL the little changes that were made)
And yea they'll run well over 100mph FULL of fuel while in race trim!!
Thank you Allen Ulmer for your help, knowledge, and parts for tuning on our practice and race sleds!
Jeff
IMHO....
EACH of you guys NO MATTER HOW HARD YOU RIDE need to do 5 things to your sleds. If you want to keep them straight! In order....
* brace the upper a-arms towards the inside
* brace the spindles in the 'bow tie' area where lower arm mounds. you can improve this by covering the whole outside area also.
* tie the front mounting bolt holes of upper a-arms together with a 1"x 3/16" strap steel (you'll have to relocate some electronics but that is easy enough) & notch the piece you are installing.
* box in the WHOLE frame from underneath! (between the skid plate and frame)
*tie together the lower a-arm mounts to each other (between the front and rear mounting points)
* Replace ball joints in lower a-arms with greaseable ones... stock ones show wear with in 200 miles and can be all but completely gone by 1000 miles.
IF you can do these things you sleds WILL be 100% bullet proff of ANY tral conditions! (that was targeted towards the guys that claim they have hit nothing but have bent their front ends! Nothing can stop a direct hit from doing damage!!! We shall try to avoid that!
I can't post pics now as I have a busy week ahead those that do have pics of any of these that I sent them fell free topost if you want....
We have solutions to issues with the rear skid but no one is talking about them nor does it appear anyone else is having issues so until they start cropping up ..... I will post a pic of our rear skid early on and you guys can see some improvements.... (it'll take keen eyes to notice ALL the little changes that were made)
And yea they'll run well over 100mph FULL of fuel while in race trim!!
Thank you Allen Ulmer for your help, knowledge, and parts for tuning on our practice and race sleds!
Jeff
And also Thank you to each of the TotallYamaha.com and Dootalk.com members that help to support our efforts!
My race sled:
My race sled:
Nikolai
TY 4 Stroke God
Good luck Jeff!
06RSRAGE
Expert
NICE RIDES ! GOOD LUCK TO ALL
Thanks for the pictures from the Tech inspection. Good luck and a safe run to you.
awesome updates. good luck to all of you. ride safe.
any partnumbers you care to share for the lower ball joints? ski
any partnumbers you care to share for the lower ball joints? ski
gormleyflyer2002
TY 4 Stroke Junkie
good luck team #23.....ride with reckless abandon boys...!! keep the rubber thing against the white stuff.
You guys have been very busy wrenching huh.
the race has GPS coverage for those interested.
Interesting pics, looking forward for the remaining pics if people have them to post......let em fly boys.
BK
You guys have been very busy wrenching huh.
the race has GPS coverage for those interested.
Interesting pics, looking forward for the remaining pics if people have them to post......let em fly boys.
BK
bad brad
Newbie
good luck jeff....i did most of the things jeff suggested to me a few weeks back and i almost made it through the red lake 500 two weeks ago but jeff forgot to mention the rear skid problems and i was out on day 3 of the race.....all fixed up now though and i can tell you that the front end can take almost anything now after the fixes posted here
RocketmanROD
Extreme
What exactlly did you do to the rear skid and ball joint part #s
Whiplash
Newbie
Good Luck! Thanks for the info.
