I'd say this guy was on borrowed time!!

[yamamarc]

The bolt literally fell out when I removed the tensioner. Shift fork pads are 1/2 gone but still sittng on the forks.lol
4000km

 

[Todd Beenen]

I met a guy that had 8000 mikes on his zr9000, never checked chain case fluid, chain tension , nothing, never gave him any trouble, now that’s sheer luck.

 

[DMCTurbo]

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The bolt literally fell out when I removed the tensioner. Shift fork pads are 1/2 gone but still sittng on the forks.lol
4000km

Gear bushing pooched too?

 

[RAMSOMAIR]

Very disappointing. Surprised.......no, disappointed......yes.

 

[yamamarc]

Gear bushing pooched too?

Yes sir

 

[DennyTuna]

Talk about lucky, he would have been lucky to make it another klick.

 

[NYTurbo]

Gear bushing pooched too?

If the shift fork pads look like that , always the gear bushing is pooched.

 

[jonlafon1]

So like a bomb with a timer on it. He stopped driving his sled with 1 second left?

 

[justinator]

So like a bomb with a timer on it. He stopped driving his sled with 1 second left?

Haha he parked his sled last spring and it was like the movies when a guy snips the wire on a bomb thats about to detonate!

 

[jonlafon1]

Pop quiz, hotshot. Sidewinder guy”There's a bomb in a chaincase Once the sled goes 50 miles an hour, the case is armed. If passes another mile it blows”

 

[Turboflash]

I met a guy that had 8000 mikes on his zr9000, never checked chain case fluid, chain tension , nothing, never gave him any trouble, now that’s sheer luck.

Yikes! Very lucky!

 

[Phatboyc]

Are those the original plastic shift fork pads? They look like DMC metals ones due to color.

 

[yamamarc]

Are those the original plastic shift fork pads? They look like DMC metals ones due to color.

Oem