Gentlemen, Ladies,
What you see below is a production
Manual Cam Chain Tensioner from
American Performance Engineering - APE.
The MCCT is now available from APE at the nominal fee of around 52.00. That is cheaper than the Yamaha OEM CCT. Because it gets set and locked down by a jamb nut, it will
never back off and let the cam chain skip a tooth. I plan to replace my 8000 mile ( second ) Yamaha CCT in another month when my '06 reaches 78k on the clock.
After I heard about Howie's CCT failure, and then Mike's CCT failure, I contacted APE to see what they could do for us. My daughter's '03 CBR600 F4i has one in place. It was installed by the previous owner. I'm finding out that several model sport bikes have cam chain tensioners that are known to cause grief. APE has been making these for years and have not had any problems that I know of. This
p/n YT1300 tensioner is proven technology.
At the time, APE did not have one for the FJR1300. They asked me to send them my old Yamaha CCT so they could build one for us. They sent me a prototype a few weeks later to dry fit and check for clearances. I made the screw driver slot modification in the prototype to clear the frame, and APE incorporated it into their production units. They let me keep the prototype and sent me the first production unit when it was ready. I later sent the prototype to Howie.
Below is the prototype installed, but not tensioned in my '06.
You will not see it on the APE web site yet.
APE MANUAL CAM CHAIN TENSIONERS They will be adding it soon.
If anyone is interested contact Pat at American Performance Engineering.
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Tell him you have an FJR1300 and would like the new Manual Cam Chain Tensioner - p/n YT1300.
Also tell him Brodie sent you.
I do not have a stake in this, save for the free unit they sent me after using my old Yamaha CCT to as a template. Howie has the prototype in his beautiful '04 "Frankenbike". He's happy with the way it turned out.
Let's nip this thing in the bud!
Brodie