99SRX700
Extreme
OK so I think we are all pretty familiar with this, and I know its a problem but how much of a factor has the transfer rod adjustment been? A friend of mine snapped one, then replaced it with the newer, beefier, 2010 arm. Now the updated arm has also failed after only a few hundred miles. When I say snapped, I mean completely broke in half. No cracks, no preliminary failure, just a total break right in the tubing of the arm.
The catch is he has been dialing his transfer rod way out beyond spec. Unfortunately he realized that the further you turn the rod out the more ski lift you get. He loves his wheelies so he has dialed it as far out as it would go, leaving only a few threads left to hold it together, and well beyond where the tick marks on the wrench indicate you should go. He just leaves it and trail rides like this.
It's pretty obvious to anyone who really understands how this suspension works that if the rod is dialed out too far, it becomes too long to fit when the suspension bottoms and this causes the skid to bottom on the rod, as opposed to the rubber stops like it should. Obviously this puts a ton of stress on the front W arm since that is where the rod is bolted to. If you look at a picture of the skid by itself and imagine it bottoming with the rod too far out (too long) you will see what I mean.
We warned him about it and he didn't listen, but thats a whole other story. The point is with the above scenario being considered...How much of a factor is the transfer rod adjustment with this issue? Do you think some of the failures are the result of people not properly setting their transfer rods within spec?
The catch is he has been dialing his transfer rod way out beyond spec. Unfortunately he realized that the further you turn the rod out the more ski lift you get. He loves his wheelies so he has dialed it as far out as it would go, leaving only a few threads left to hold it together, and well beyond where the tick marks on the wrench indicate you should go. He just leaves it and trail rides like this.
It's pretty obvious to anyone who really understands how this suspension works that if the rod is dialed out too far, it becomes too long to fit when the suspension bottoms and this causes the skid to bottom on the rod, as opposed to the rubber stops like it should. Obviously this puts a ton of stress on the front W arm since that is where the rod is bolted to. If you look at a picture of the skid by itself and imagine it bottoming with the rod too far out (too long) you will see what I mean.
We warned him about it and he didn't listen, but thats a whole other story. The point is with the above scenario being considered...How much of a factor is the transfer rod adjustment with this issue? Do you think some of the failures are the result of people not properly setting their transfer rods within spec?
When the W arm on my '05 broke several years ago the dealer said it was because I had the transfer rod set out too far. After I showed the mechanic how to properly use the adjustment wrench Yamaha supplies to measure the transfer rod setting the arm was replaced under warranty 
