A forum for owners of Yamaha TTR250 trail and enduro bikes!

G'day and welcome to the forum, Pricey.

Please check your TTR thoroughly before riding, don't want to hurt yourself or the bike.

Martyn

 

Luckily for you the TTR isn't a 'pricey' bike to maintain Chris!

Welcome to the forum buddy.

 

Thanks for the welcome all :)

Off to get a roadworthy on the TTR today. Getting some DOT tyres while it's there. Then I'll get it regoe'd and start bolting my goodies on. Can't wait to putt around in the bush.

ttr steve wrote:

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Make sure you post some photos please

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 Here's one of me out on the TTR on the weekend just gone. Bike went great. Have a pretty badly leaking right fork seal which covered my boot in oil.  Apart from that the bike went great.

So far I've installed frame guards, a bash plate, grip heaters, bar risers, renthal bars and a new seat cover and moulded taller foam. Have to work out a better place to store all the extra electrics as I ran out of room behind the front wind deflector.

Had to look up lantana on Google to find out it's a weed 

All the good mods. Lucky the fork oil did not go on the front brake

Welcome to the forum pricey, sounds like your within easy striking distance of the snowy's and Alpine National Park, Lucky Bugger

You'll like the TTR, I'm setting mine up now as a light weight Duel Sporter, just need a bigger tank and a set of panniers

 

 

-- Edited by BM Steve on Tuesday 10th of May 2016 03:09:04 PM

ttr steve wrote:

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Why not have a go at your fork seals yourself Chris?

See here

http://www.ttr250.com/TTR_renew_fork_seals.htm

Hope that can help.

Steve

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 I have a ride to Melbourne on the 28th and living in regional Victoria means postage can take up to two weeks to get here - even just from Melbourne. The motorcycle shop in town doesn't have them in stock which means I drive 2 hours to get some or order by post. I also have three kids under 4 so time is very limited at home. I might be able to get them here on time but might not have enough time to fit them. But that's life

Nice bike steve 

 

Thanks Brian. It's funny but I rang every motorcycle shop within two hours drive and no one had stock of the seals. For some reason I can get post from England quicker than mailing a letter to my next door neighbour. We have minimum local delivery of 5 business days here in rural Victoria which generally turns out to be 9 or 10 business days. I order a heap of land rover bits from England though and they always get here in 4 to 8 days. I have no idea why our local service is so pathetic. Also I have no idea why English post is quicker once it hits Australian soil that regular Australian post. It's crazy

 

Can't wait to fit the parts myself. I so prefer to get my own hands dirty than pay someone else to do it. 

Yeah thanks ttboof. I bought and used a seal saver before my last ride. It made the leaking issue worse as my seals are just perished from age I think. It went from a slow weep to a pretty good leak. Left my engine, fork and boot covered in an oily film.

The bike is over 10 years old but has only done 1100km. The rear top b shock bearing is also knackered from age (it wiggles at the bearing from side to side) so have also ordered the bush kit from Brian. 

So the parts arrived last night. Thanks Brian!

After I got the kids to sleep I went to the shed to begin. And realised my largest hex is 12mm. Doh! So did some wiring and watched the gp. I like Lorenzo and not Rossi so it was the perfect race. That last lap was one of the best ever.

So off to the small tool shop to grab a 14mm hex today. Then I can get cracking tonight. :)

So finally finished the fork seals last night. Took 5 hours all up over 2 nights in the shed including some problem solving and research. I'd cut the time in half next time but still couldn't do it in 2 hours by myself like the sticky says. I think 2 hours for two people would be achievable though 

 I did take my time but still had a few headaches! The hex nut on the bottom wouldn't come loose. I thought it had but it was just spinning with the dampener rod. I managed to still get the forks apart by using a screw driver (carefully) inserted into the dampener rod hole through the small hole in the fork inner first. It's not the best way to go but I checked for damage and there wasn't any!

I didn't take more photos as I was too busy getting it all done. An FYI - if you don't have a seal driver, a standard used silicon tube with the end cut off is a perfect fit on a TTR!  Necessity is truly the mother of invention.

 

I'm trying neoprene fork covers by viper. I'll let you all know how they go. Much better looking than the oem dodgies I reckon. 

So nearly ready for my trip on the weekend. Got to finish off my running light install next. Pictures to come. 

 

-- Edited by pricey on Thursday 26th of May 2016 06:11:26 AM

So the bike made it down and back no problem. The fork seals haven't leaked yet either.

 

Had a great time catching up with my best mate. Led him on his massively modified harley through the CBD of Melbourne as he's not used to city riding. Couldn't even hear my bike over his even when he was behind me 

 

So next mods are a new seat as this one is like a plank. New fuel tank because I hit reserve at 142 km's  now twice and that's just not a big enough range. And a pipe and jets. Don't want loads more power but she's pretty breathless at 100kph. I had to downshift a bit into 5th because it struggled to hold the speed limit up hills. But then I'm a fat bastard and it's a 250

 

Going to start a build thread I think and move some of my mods and photos. Cheers to all.

-- Edited by pricey on Sunday 29th of May 2016 10:34:45 AM

-- Edited by pricey on Sunday 29th of May 2016 10:35:22 AM

Hi Pricey, is that 142k's on the road or trail? Reason why I ask is that I usually ride about 200k's on trails on my bike before I hit reserve, and its very low geared (top speed is 80kph flat out) - most of the time I'm in second or third as well. Cheers.

So as it turns out, I must have damaged the fork seals whilst installing them. Bugger!

 

At least one side worked I suppose 

 

Yes, that's oil from the right seal pooling on the rim... Bit cranky. Can't afford to fix it again at the moment. Might just push it to the back of the shed and forget about it for a while. 

-- Edited by pricey on Thursday 2nd of June 2016 06:14:57 AM