Second ride report

[Crewchief47]

Re: sled

Viper_Dave thanks the local yammy dealer wanted 250 for all the front end bushings but that was way to much

Call Ulmer and make sure he ships USPS ($5 brokerage plus taxes).

 

[HYFLYR]

Caleb, you just built the sled yamaha released, haha, your ahead of the game bud! Looks sick for sure, you should bring it by the shop tomorrow.

 

[rfabro]

Flat landing. Any front end problems?

 

[Nikolai]

btw looks great nikolai...i might be doing the same next fall..are you using the 2.5x16x144?

Yes, I'm using the 144x16x2.5 camo extreme.

 

[SilentSno]

In order to fit the 16" wide track which is surprisingly tight, I had to grind off 8(4 on ea. plate) of the welded nuts on the front steel plates. I'll be putting cap head bolts from the inside out with locknuts for 6 of them and 2 I'll just leave out.

And lucky me, the bottom of the oil tank where my leak is isn't removable, so it looks like a new oil tank under warranty. Hopefully they aren't on backorder.

Is that the stock plates? Or something our your new suspension? Any thing else for clearance for the 16" wide for a stock swap?

 

[Nikolai]

The grinding was referring to the fron steel plates that attach the tunnel to the bulkhead. Aside from that, you will need different rear suspension brackets. I think Kmods allow for a 16" track.

 

[SilentSno]

The grinding was referring to the fron steel plates that attach the tunnel to the bulkhead. Aside from that, you will need different rear suspension brackets. I think Kmods allow for a 16" track.

Drop brackets?

 

[Nikolai]

You will need to remove the stock rear suspension brackets and install either Timbersleds or Kmods.


I worked on my tunnel a lot more today. Got the extension off, cut out what I needed, bent it up and it's ready to rivet now. Tomorrow I'll rivet everything and try and get the extrusion welded. Only thing left will be to finish the tunnel extension.

 

[Nikolai]

Aside from the little bit of welding that's left, I finished the tunnel today.

 

[Topgun]

So do you recommend those better boards for those of us that don't do the jumping like you do?? I'm really getting sick of the snow build up. Is that a different extension your putting on?

 

[Nikolai]

The Better Boards work great. If you don't jump at all and aren't very heavy, I'd say get them. The get rid of most of the snow buildup.

The extension is stock, I just cut it up to my liking. The stock tunnel always looked hideous to me.

 

[Powder Pounder]

Wow that tunnle is awesome! Looks killer. Good job on that sled dude.

 

[akdavo]

Nice work...Keep it up and Yamaha will be calling you for design ideas...Oh yeah, Let It Snow, Let It Snow, Let It Snow!

 

[Nikolai]

Got my spindles back. As you can see in the pic a spacer was machined to fit inside the top of the spindle with a longer bolt to keep the top of the spindle from bending in. I also got all the oil-lite bushings pressed in the a-arms. Before I did I dropped them all in a tin can full of oil for a few hours and got it hot a couple times(to open up the pores in the bushings).

My new lower ball joints are in as well and are even greaseable. The dealer drilled the ball joint bolt holes bigger to fit a larger bolt. I got home and unbolted everything because one of them was sloppy. Well, none of the 4 bushings mic'd the same(OD's and ID's) and they're using too small of a bolt. Such a friggin joke for the amount of money. I'm getting the proper size bolt(13 mm), reaming the smallest ID bushing out a hair, and still have to modify the bushings a little. Not to mention the shoulder of the bolt only went halfway into the balljoint. WTH ever happen to quality work.

I swear, one of these days I'll have all the equipment to do my own fab.

 

[summitking]

sled

That should get the job done and toughen up that front end
So did you get your tunnel all welded up?