No, you're not dreaming! ;)

http://www.xt660.com/showpost.php?p=192087&postcount=1

Can't tell much from this video from my phone! Has this guy just fitted a bearing inside the sprocket cover without any drilling or anything?

I have recently picked up a second hand sprocket carrier and have had it machined out to take a 20x52x22.6 mm bearing, not the one pleiades suggested (25x52x20.6 mm).

There was method in my madness at choosing that particular size but as it turned out I had to machine a new spacer to fit inside the bearing so the (25x52x20.6 mm) option with a spacer to suit that would be cheaper than the one I went for.

I did not go down the route of machining the carrier to take two standard bearing as that looked like it would leave very little material for the bearing to butt against and I did not want to weaken the carrier too much.

It'll be the weekend before I can get some photos but will try to post pictures of both standard and modified carriers.

Sandman.

This is all great but truly bizzar, we're all trying to sort what seems a very easy fix by a massive company like "YAMAHA"

Never ceases to amaze me the the common man can see the obvious :dontknow:

Lets hope someone from "YAMAHA" reads this , because we all obviously like the bike

Phil

Yamaha is only likely to fix it when they bring out the next incarnation of the XT. As previous posters have mentioned....built to a "price" more than a "high standard"!

Long live the garden shed tinkerer!!!

Yep. If the Tenere was perfect out of the box, I would more than likely have got bored with it by now and probably moved on to pastures new. Five and a half years later, it's never let me down, yet I'm still finding things to improve and fiddle with - which keeps me out of mischief!

Yep , your both right , "born to mess" as our lass says :mbounce:

I replaced my cush drives when i changed my tyres a few weeks ago.

All was fine.

The some 500 miles later i needed to get my chain replaced. I got my local shop to do this as i don't have the tools to cut off the OEM chain nor fit the soft link.

The chap who did my chain noted that my cush drive had serious play and advised changing them straight away!!!!!!

He did not beleive me that they had 500 miles on them!!!

Mike

Its a ******, if you're not upto it get the local shop to pack them with strips of old innertube
Phil

Checked my cush drives today. They're fecked already after 2,500 miles :sad10: