Hi all Blaster lovers.
Starting a build thread of my bike now as I will be doing a lot to it next year. Bought the bike so I had a bike to ride over Christmas.
Anyways its a 2005 Yamaha Blaster that I picked up of a trading site. It come with a lot of new parts including: Full set of tires, hand grips, front wheel bearings, service manual, heel guard plastics and had a $1000 spent on the top-end and reed valves couple months ago. Has a Full FMF Powercore 2 exhaust on it.
Some photos of how I got it.
First engine start after getting it home.
After removing the RockStar graphics and checking over the bike it looks like this. Also installed new handle bars, handle bar pad, hand grips.
Installed a Trail Tech Endurance II Motorcycle Speedometer.
After topping up brake fluid drained old fuel/oil mix out of tank and installing new chain rollers gave the bike another little ride. Normally only takes 1 kick to start but fuel had to get into the system from tank.
Did find a couple of dodgy things on this bike when I checked it over.
1. Front wheels had 10mm thick spacers behind them making the wheel nuts only just thread on the ends of the studs. removed them and now back to normal
2. Rear wheels had 4mm thick washers behind them making the wheel nuts only just thread on the ends of the studs. removed them and now back to normal
3. Yellow wire going to the rear of the bike for the brake light had worn thought on one of the metal clips on the frame and was arcing. Un-Clipped wires from frame and electrical taped them up. Don't have a brake light installed.
4. Micro switch in the thumb throttle was missing the screw that holds it in place. Installed new screw.
5. 40:1 fuel oil mix in the fuel tank but still has the rear oil tank connected with oil in it. Going to be checking to see if oil pump is still working this weekend and if it is I will replace the fuel oil mix with normal fuel.
Will do another update later tonight.
Starting a build thread of my bike now as I will be doing a lot to it next year. Bought the bike so I had a bike to ride over Christmas.
Anyways its a 2005 Yamaha Blaster that I picked up of a trading site. It come with a lot of new parts including: Full set of tires, hand grips, front wheel bearings, service manual, heel guard plastics and had a $1000 spent on the top-end and reed valves couple months ago. Has a Full FMF Powercore 2 exhaust on it.
Some photos of how I got it.
First engine start after getting it home.
After removing the RockStar graphics and checking over the bike it looks like this. Also installed new handle bars, handle bar pad, hand grips.
Installed a Trail Tech Endurance II Motorcycle Speedometer.
After topping up brake fluid drained old fuel/oil mix out of tank and installing new chain rollers gave the bike another little ride. Normally only takes 1 kick to start but fuel had to get into the system from tank.
Did find a couple of dodgy things on this bike when I checked it over.
1. Front wheels had 10mm thick spacers behind them making the wheel nuts only just thread on the ends of the studs. removed them and now back to normal
2. Rear wheels had 4mm thick washers behind them making the wheel nuts only just thread on the ends of the studs. removed them and now back to normal
3. Yellow wire going to the rear of the bike for the brake light had worn thought on one of the metal clips on the frame and was arcing. Un-Clipped wires from frame and electrical taped them up. Don't have a brake light installed.
4. Micro switch in the thumb throttle was missing the screw that holds it in place. Installed new screw.
5. 40:1 fuel oil mix in the fuel tank but still has the rear oil tank connected with oil in it. Going to be checking to see if oil pump is still working this weekend and if it is I will replace the fuel oil mix with normal fuel.
Will do another update later tonight.
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