Backwoods M Max
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Bad rods, hurricane posted a thread in the viper section on the 4 stroke side showing differences in rods in 16s. What's unknown as of yet is how many have the bad rods. It almost seems like a bad batch made it through.
I was following a thread on hardcoresledder. Some guy on the west coast had a trail turbo grenade. The dealer installed it even though the sled was build after the cutoff date where they know the problem rods made it into the motors. The installed a new motor, new boost controller to make sure it was only 5psi went out again and 20 miles on the new motor grenaded another one. It doesn't look good for the durability reputation although problems are not the issue, it's if Yamaha if forthcoming and honest about it and take the right course to fix it. This guy got a 100% refund buy back from corporate Yamaha so it seems like they know there is a demon at hand. I think it's far from a bonded a arm type situation and Yamaha has never screwed customers before but it's also been a long time since the srx crank recall too.