Flyinfool

That is what a starter clutch sounds like. No matter which solution you pick he will need a puller. I got my flywheel off with a $15 harmonic balancer puller. I have the Dano mod on mine, it has been flawless.

That was quick, Chat is back.

Just the concept of that 17,000 foot long fire hose is scarey enough. I am more afraid of that blue and white box on the table.

It seems that chat is down again. I get;

Is the motor seized from sitting a log time, or did it seize while you were riding, or did it just no longer turn over? First ting is to get a wrench on the crank and see if it moves. If your lucky it could be a starter issue.

It is that time in my life to face the music. I have procrastinated as long as possible. My normal diet has been screwed up all of this week. Only 2 cups of milk per day, no legumes, no corn no nuts, only bland food, not even anything with fiber in it. I can't even have ice cream. I have the innocent looking blue and white box sitting on the kitchen table. Yup you figured it out by now, the dreaded Moviprep. I get to start the first wave at 6:00 Thursday, last dose at 3:00 am Friday. Then figure out how to get to the office by 7:00 am Friday. I guess I will be online all night Thursday, I sure ain't gonna get no sleep. To fall asleep would be terrible. Reading the label on the box it lists as a "possible" side effect, yup loose bowels. Possible, really, just possible..........Side effect???????

A carb sync should have nothing to do with gas smell. Just a couple of WAGs; Check for a gas leak. Float adjustment. Gas tank filler cap seal.

Zero gravity? The front wheel does tend to float up off the road at times.

Maybe you need tire chains or knobbies for the ride up.

I will keep that in mind when I decide to repaint the whole bike a few years from now. Thats cuz people think their legs look good enough to eat.

After reading all of the suggestions from everyone and sleeping on it, My thought is that I have a crud issue. If after a 25 ride home all of it in city traffic and none of the rotors were to hot to touch, this in my book rules out a dragging caliper. If something was dragging that rotor would be WAY over what you can hold your finger on. since the change comes and goes randomly it must be dirt somewhere it should not be that is blocking and unblocking something. A heat issue would not come and go in the distance of a city block. I had already planned to upgrade to SS lines at the next fluid change. I was still undecided as to whether to de-link. Remembering back just a couple of weeks ago I nearly dumped the bike when I used the rear brake only to come to a complete stop on damp dirt that had some moss or alge on it and the front wheel locked up momentarily. So the plan is that the bike is telling me it is time to spring for the parts to convert to SS lines, and do the de-link. Part of this will be cleaning out everything I can clean. Enter shopping mode........

I even have a set of speed bleeders that were going to go in when I install the SS lines. Now may be the time to do all of this.

Those are some very nice legs I'll have you know.......

The new Hostess may have made a fatal mistake. They changed the Twinkies, they are now smaller than they were a year ago. They are now tiny, but the price is higher to compensate. This is not the way to make a comeback. I do not like my junk food being rationed.

OK, now I am really confused. When I left work the pedal felt like the old normal. over the next 5 miles it progressively went back to the nice hard great pedal. I stopped to see if it was a heat issue. All 3 rotors were at about 110 deg F. That rules out a dragging brake causing excessive heat. After another 10 miles there are several lights in a row that are timed so that you will stop at each one. the first one had the new hard pedal, the second and third had the old normal peddle, I had the old normal pedal the rest of the way home. when I got home, all three rotors were close to the same temp with the left front being the coolest, but all were cool enough to hold my finger on. So this change in pedal is now coming and going for no apparent reason.

And here I thought that I left all of the gremlins south of the WI border on my test ride...... In another 45 minutes I'll know if this is heat related or not when I head home.

We may have to contact Rick to see if we can put together a group buy to get him to make some more. Mine is not cracked yet, but I know it is just a matter of time. Especially since that is the point that takes most of the force when I have to push the bike backwards.

For the 6 years that I have owned this bike, I always thought the rear brake felt soft and had very little stopping power. I have readjusted the brake peddle to as high up as I can get it, and had to push it down as far as my foot could go to get any decent stopping power. I have bled the brakes several times with no change. I just resigned myself to the fact that this bike does not have grate brakes and went on with life. Today on my way to work, it is a 25 mile ride that takes me 45 minutes, the rear brake was getting better and better with every stop, by the time I got to work the rear brake felt just wonderful. I really like the feel right now. BUT what concerns me is the fact that something is changing and I do not know what or why. It will now stop very well and with a LOT more authority using just the rear than what it ever had before using both brakes. I don't know if it just suddenly started working correctly and I just had crap brakes all of this time, or is something about to blow out. My first thought was that it is the well known issue with heat causing the rear caliper to lock up. But while at a red light the bike rolled freely forward or back. As soon as I got to work I put it up on the center stand and spun the rear wheel by hand and it was as free as it should be. I know it is overdue for another fluid change and I was planning to upgrade to SS lines and maybe de-link at the same time, so that will get me my fluid change. I was hoping that the SS lines would get me a less mushy feel to the peddle. Question is, what would suddenly make the rear brake work so wonderful? Do I have a problem that may suddenly leave me with NO rear braking system? What could have suddenly started working to fix a problem that I have had forever and just did not know I had? I will see if the brakes are back to normal for the trip home this afternoon which could indicate that it is a heat build up issue. I'm going to borrow a 5/16 wrench just in case it is a heat issue and I need to crack the bleeder. At least there are no wires involved with this issue........

Are all of the rubber parts compatible with either 5.0 or 5.1?

I took another 2 hour ride today, The bike was fine but I got overheated. I am now starting to get some confidence that I got it licked. I will ride it to every day it does not rain this week, we'll see how that goes

I almost was gonna take a ride up there just cuz and to help you look at it. What would the guy think if 2 ventures pulled up in his driveway? One the same vintage as his. It was to hot for me to go that far today.

Good find. I had been looking for this trim for over a month and never even thought of fleabay. A little pricy for just 8 feet, but if it really is a correct match.... I will know at the end of next week if it is really an exact match.

I did talk to J-Bird at MD and he thought he cold match them. I would prefer tape if possible so that I can have it under the clear coat.

The blue one that I have has a very poor finish on it, it is very badly scratched all over, with many of the scratches down to the plastic, and has some chips that will need to be filled. I am not even sure it it is a color that Yamaha ever used, it is a dark Navy blue. The old one has big chunks missing that I could not find at the "crash" site. I thought about painting the stripes, but that may be well above my skill level. The covers on the bike were painted once before and the pin stripes are tape, so they do or at least did exist at one point in time. The camera was mounted on a lon........ Oh never mind.....

Just don't dig it to deep or you will need a crash helmet to continue..... This "ditch" doesn't happen to be 3 feet wide X 7 feet long and 6 feet deep, is it? Warden may have found out you are looking at another bike.........