What's your tensioner year and color?

[low slung]

I re-checked 7Skulls 06 nytro after looking at the pictures posted by vector06,to find a orange dot on the tensioner.You have to take of the side panel and look at the tensioner from the bottom-up with a flashlight.The orange dot is a perfect mark in paint.Pretty sure all 05-07 120 motors have this colour code .Now somebody got to be the first to replace the part without spending a ton of money in labour fees at the dealer(part is cheap,labour is a different story).

 

[vector06]

Looks like both of ours have orange dots. Should we be trading them??? lol

 

[twomorestrokes]

Man, I can't seem to get a good enough angle to see the dot, but I would imagine it would have to be orange with a 2004 build date on the sled.

 

[AKrider]

I definitely should have removed the side panel. I bought a small, $11 dentist type mirror from Napa as my normal one was too large. I probably spent 15 minutes trying all types of angles looking for dots. Then... there it was and I didn't want to believe what I was seeing. I was hoping it was some high temp silicone but no... the orange dot of death. It was located on the chaincase side of the tensioner, on the bottom of the flange. My sled was built in 5/04 #317.

So now what? I'm guessing you are supposed to wait until the sled makes noise and take it in? Seems like Yamaha is taking care of the sleds. I'll start checking into it once we've got snow on the ground.

 

[AKrider]

I posted this on the other thread:


I talked to my Yamaha friend today. I sent him the bulletin yesterday and he'd seen it before when it first came out in 2005. He said the tensioner is automatic and doesn't need the owner's help in doing its job. He said the failures Yamaha was seeing was due to owners tightening their adjusters improperly. If you remove the bolt from the back of the adjuster, you can push it further in with a center punch. There were owners who were concerned about noise and tried to quiet their sleds down by tightening their tensioners. There were also owners (like I mentioned earlier) who did work or modified their sleds and didn't properly reassemble and install everything (including their tensioners) and experienced a failure.

He said if I was going to have a tensioner failure it would have happened already. The dots are Yamaha's way to alert service personnel whether the sled has the stock tensioner (orange dot) or had a replacement tensioner installed (blue dot). He also mentioned that there had not been a single failure documented in Alaska. But that info is probably about a year or two old.

 

[twomorestrokes]

Well I'm not going to lose any sleep over it this season. Not with most of the other sleds as old as mine well into the thousands of miles without issues. Forums have the nack for blowing things out of propotion IMO.