Drive train failure

[seawolf]

Originally Posted by seawolf

Guess I should stay more engaged with the forum. Just blew up a belt yesterday. actually teeth all peeled off but belt stayed together. will tear down and see what pulleys look like. Bike has 126k kms on it. the belt was changed out at 90k so this new one had almost 30k.

Looks like both pulleys are shot as well. 6 teeth left on belt.

[Peg]

Originally Posted by seawolf

Looks like both pulleys are shot as well. 6 teeth left on belt.

Same thing happened to me soon after I bought the bike. An over-tight belt from the previous owner's dealership was to blame. I picked up used pulley's & belt on EBay, and with corrected tension have had no further issues.

There had been two previous owners of my bike, and both owners used the same dealership to service it. It had its second belt already on it, and damaged, when I bought it with only 25k km's on the clock. You would have thought that dealership might have noticed the problem?

[andyvh1959]

I'll be working on my buddy's VN900 soon to check a wiring issue. I'll check that pulley issue as well. Thanks.