twomorestrokes
TY 4 Stroke God
My tunnel is buckled now and it was not from backing over the flap. I have had a short flap on it for two seasons. It must be from hard riding in rough conditions as I bottomed it out hard a few times last week apparently causing the damage. Gotta figure out what I'm gonna do to fix it...
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I haven't fixed mine yet, I've been running as is. I wonder if this is a monoshock problem. Even with the big boy spring, I can still bottom hard once in a while. It seems like there should be a secondary anti bottoming spring of some sort to prevent the hard jolt that happens at least a couple of times every ride.
rear2high
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You should be able to bottom the sled and not worry about the tunnel bending. For the weight up there[muffler], Yamaha has to put in better stiffners or a total redesign.
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twomorestrokes said:
My repair is still holding up after 2,000 miles which includes all the theoretical situations that made it crinkle in the first place: Backing over the flap, tying it down too hard, riding it too hard and bottoming out... I think you cannot go wrong with the repair I originally proposed... It's a lot of work, but very cheap and effective.
twomorestrokes
TY 4 Stroke God
It looks good and I am considering it. You don't happen to have a template do you?
I know there are debates on what caused this. Backing over the flap, bottom out, tying down while trailering, etc. I tied mine down for the first time last trip (new trailer with D rings) but I remembered this thread so I didn't crank it down. I think it's from bottoming out but here's another scenario. When trying to unload from the trailer one morning the rear skid was frozen solid ans wouldn't move or compress. I picked the back end up by the bumper and slammed it down 3 or 4 times hard to break things loose. I wonder if I did it then?
Also, I looked at the RTX parts diagram and am unsure whuch braces are which. It shows three different ones in that area. Any ideas? Heck, maybe I should just order the whole RTX...LOL
I know there are debates on what caused this. Backing over the flap, bottom out, tying down while trailering, etc. I tied mine down for the first time last trip (new trailer with D rings) but I remembered this thread so I didn't crank it down. I think it's from bottoming out but here's another scenario. When trying to unload from the trailer one morning the rear skid was frozen solid ans wouldn't move or compress. I picked the back end up by the bumper and slammed it down 3 or 4 times hard to break things loose. I wonder if I did it then?
Also, I looked at the RTX parts diagram and am unsure whuch braces are which. It shows three different ones in that area. Any ideas? Heck, maybe I should just order the whole RTX...LOL
