Starter change....need help

[Ximer10]

well great news!!! Dealership called me after supper tonight and said to just get it to him yamaha will cover repairs!!! was not expecting that!!

 

[cannondale27]

As a fyi, since I just did this repair here is my few tips.

Buy a small flexible magnet tool you can fish into tight spaces to find metal shavings.

Remove the lowet plastic crawling, this will take drilling out 9 or so rivets, but makes access much easier.

Removing oil pan, with out disconnecting the motor mounts and whatever else intels to tilt the motor, I wasn't able to remove the oil pan, however you can drop it down far enough to look I side and fish out all the metal shavings and can look at the metal mesh pick up screen on the oil pump. The disadvantage to this method is you end up having to reuse the oil pan gasket, it just didn't seem possible to fish a new one in without damaging it. Reusing my old one wasn't an issue since it was still in great shape.

I personally see no resone to remove the mechanical oil pump on the bottom of the engine, based on the fact that typically you will have a kick back and the motor will not turn over when attempting to start it again (like I did because I had no clue what happen) so since it's a mechanical driven pump it won't pick up any material then, however I would use that flexible magnet to fish around for cling-on metal shavings.

YamaCat reason I say to look over the pumps is because most times the failure isn't instant. In otherwords there is a starter grind and then finally it just doesn't work anymore. Have also seen pics posted here somewhere of obvious scoring of the rotors and oil pump housings. Its a judgement call. Have dealt with metal in pumps before though. Its not good. Tight clearance debris can shear a 1/8in dia drive pin and make mince meat of a plastic drive gear that would last for many years otherwise.

Ximer10 glad you are getting taken care of by Yamaha and your dealer.

 

[karlburns]

well great news!!! Dealership called me after supper tonight and said to just get it to him yamaha will cover repairs!!! was not expecting that!!

What did you say/do to get them to take care of it? Drove 8 hours yesterday to ride into Canada today and my starter took a #*$&@ leaving me with no sled. So mad right now $2000 trip down the tube.

 

[cannondale27]

Just tell the dealer what happened. Sad to hear this.

 

[karlburns]

Just tell the dealer what happened. Sad to hear this.

Called the dealer yesterday they told me to call Yamaha corporate see if they would cover it. I debated taking my Apex instead but wanted to be able to play out in the powder.

 

[cannondale27]

Called the dealer yesterday they told me to call Yamaha corporate see if they would cover it. I debated taking my Apex instead but wanted to be able to play out in the powder.

Your dealer should call corporate first or find a different dealer.

 

[karlburns]

Your dealer should call corporate first or find a different dealer.

The irony is they have always been good to me but they're a small emphasis small dealer. They've only sold 3 vipers and aren't aware of the starter issues.

 

[karlburns]

Called a different dealer just dropped the sled off. Now time to go play on the Apex. Goal is still 500 miles for the weekend.