(Season 2008-09) TY Mileage – Yellowknife

[Cody]

Where are you, Edmonton?

yes well about 45 mins outside but close enough.

 

[Yellowknife]

I am headed down to Edmonton Saturday, then Calgary, then Revelstoke on Sunday.

 

[Yellowknife]

I made the DOOTalk Calendar, Looky here...

 

[Irondoghalf]

I made the DOOTalk Calendar, Looky here...

That's it. You're Due a new Doo, courtesy BRP. Now when the new Yamaha calender comes out and you're in that, you gotta give me one.

 

[jlemieu1]

The grounding block issue just happened to my buddy with a Phz MTX. He was running along then all a sudden his grip started to almost melt then dead sled.

 

[Yellowknife]

Really!!

Keep me posted if you find out more. Mine is still out of comission

 

[Amo]

Yeah, I had the grounding block issue on mine, the one Jasonis speaking of. I was riding through Houghton, MI and was running at about 10-15mph when mine happened. Basically, my seld shut down and threw a slew of codes, luckily I was close to M&M in Houghton and was able to get alot of help from them. Never did get it fixed to save the weekend but the root cause was a grounding block in the wiring harness. It can be repaired (re-attached) but I ha d a YES warranty so they replaced the entire harness instead. The block as I've been told, is next the oil dipstick.

There are several other 07 owners who also have had this same issue and I suspect for the same reason. I beleive the full setting on the handlebar warmers are drawing too much current over time or can spike and that creates enough resistance that the solder connection breaks or comes undone. I suspect that the electronics (for self-preservation) has a kill code if any ground circuit isn't working to prevent further damage.

Good luck!
Greg

 

[jlemieu1]

Jasonis = jlemieu1

"Amo" was the buddy I was talking about.

 

[Yellowknife]

Thanks for the details Greg. This is ironic, because the hand warmers are so weak compared to other brands out there. Very interesting.

 

[Cody]

Yellowknife u just a hard working sledder aint ya? making a doo talk calendar and the time put into riding logs... lol

 

[Yellowknife]

lol, I didn't make it make it, I entered my photo into a contest and won a spot - Craig at DOOTalk set up the contest and a third party company made the calendars, I purchased 10 of em! LOL

 

[SRXSex]

Yellowknife, I just found this thread and spent the whole evening watching and reading it up to date. All I can say is Wow, what a fantastic Blog, I am hooked. I used to do a lot of Video stuff but had to give it up as it was so time consuming. Like you guys we have a group of about 6 guys that pick a new adventure almost every weekend. One day I will have to put a compilation video together with all the new stuff I have. Here are some of my old Video's of the boys weekends that I can offer up as a interlude until the Mountain expedition comes back.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0qhvNnZKOqw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMJKwzxNIQ4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m38nHb4oYp8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQOv3SXcmPw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hiz5ghn9aoU

Enjoy.

 

[Cody]

Hope your having fun in Revy wish i could go there.

 

[papi]

are you back from BC? any news on the phazer?

 

[Yellowknife]

I am back! I'm still working on the video...I spent 4 hours on it yesterday and only got 2 minutes of it done so far! I'll keep pluggin away.

The phazer is waiting on a new wiring harness, which is apparantly a backordered part.

I have the Nytro back and it is running great. I will have more details early in the week with video/pics from this weekend - the revy stuff will come later.