yamafitter
Reigning NERDS Granite Lane Gold Medalist
You people should have stopped me. If DCarver was any kind of person he would have got on a plane from La-La Land at his expense, came to the Great White North and slapped me around before I got started.
It started innocently enough. I was thinking about installing a G2 Throttle Tube for my '06 AE for some time and I had picked up the tube last fall but never got around to the install due to a lack of working space in the garage.
I recently cleared out the snowblower and a few other items and since it's less than two weeks away from Tech Day II in Owosso I thought this would be a good time to get this simple little job done. It's such a simple thing. I've changed grips on the dirt bikes lots of times. Instructions? I don't need no stinkin' instructions.
True to my Polish roots I made every error possible and managed to turn a simple 10 minute job into a full day hair raising adventure.
Being an AE, the bike has factory heated grips. You know what's coming next. I disassemble everything and remove the grip paying absolutely no attention to the orientation of the grip wiring. When I go to install the grip I use my dirt bike grip glue which helps slide the grip onto the tube.
Unfortunately the garage is not really heated and the grip is cold and doesn't want to slide on and the glue it is not as thin and as slippery as it usually is. As a matter of fact it's a big gooey mess. So we clean the mess up with some goo remover and try again. This time I use some dish soap and with some effort I have the grip on the tube.
I then slide the tube onto the bar and something doesn't look right. It's at this point that the horror of my situation strikes me. I have no idea how this came apart. Do I look in the service manual? Do I search the forum for an answer? Hell NO!!! We wing it. Somehow manage to jam all the goodies back inside the throttle housing and give the throttle a twist hoping for the best. The throttle won't even budge. Well isn't this just special. Time to open the service manual but unfortunately Yamaha does not believe anyone would be this stupid and does not go into enough detail to allow a moron to do this task. I did see one photo that did give me a hint as to the error of my ways.
When all else fails, search the forum where I found 11 pages of discussion about everything that you would want to know about installing a G2 throttle tube on a 06 'AE' except the one piece of information that I required. There were lots of warnings about being careful about the orientation of the heated grip wiring. There were warnings about marking the wiring so that you could get the grip back on with the same orientation as it came off. There were warnings about taking photos so you would have a reference. Did any of these smartasses actually post a picture so a dumbass such as myself could have a chance to gracefully recover from our own ineptitude. Not a Chance!!
In the end after some careful reasoning and sheer dumb luck I was able to reassemble the throttle assembly in a manner that allows the throttle to return under it's own return spring power with a satisfying clanking sound against its stop.
The moral of this story???
There is no such thing as a 10 minute job.
As a public service to the next dumbass that comes along I have supplied a few photos that may be of assistance...
I ended up with the wiring fairly close to the yellow line in the photo...
Make sure that the peg in the throttle housing fits into the hole in the bar for proper housing alignment or you will be repeating my story...
I am now going to comsume a jigger of Crown Royal and forget this ever happened. :drinks:
It started innocently enough. I was thinking about installing a G2 Throttle Tube for my '06 AE for some time and I had picked up the tube last fall but never got around to the install due to a lack of working space in the garage.
I recently cleared out the snowblower and a few other items and since it's less than two weeks away from Tech Day II in Owosso I thought this would be a good time to get this simple little job done. It's such a simple thing. I've changed grips on the dirt bikes lots of times. Instructions? I don't need no stinkin' instructions.
True to my Polish roots I made every error possible and managed to turn a simple 10 minute job into a full day hair raising adventure.
Being an AE, the bike has factory heated grips. You know what's coming next. I disassemble everything and remove the grip paying absolutely no attention to the orientation of the grip wiring. When I go to install the grip I use my dirt bike grip glue which helps slide the grip onto the tube.
Unfortunately the garage is not really heated and the grip is cold and doesn't want to slide on and the glue it is not as thin and as slippery as it usually is. As a matter of fact it's a big gooey mess. So we clean the mess up with some goo remover and try again. This time I use some dish soap and with some effort I have the grip on the tube.
I then slide the tube onto the bar and something doesn't look right. It's at this point that the horror of my situation strikes me. I have no idea how this came apart. Do I look in the service manual? Do I search the forum for an answer? Hell NO!!! We wing it. Somehow manage to jam all the goodies back inside the throttle housing and give the throttle a twist hoping for the best. The throttle won't even budge. Well isn't this just special. Time to open the service manual but unfortunately Yamaha does not believe anyone would be this stupid and does not go into enough detail to allow a moron to do this task. I did see one photo that did give me a hint as to the error of my ways.
When all else fails, search the forum where I found 11 pages of discussion about everything that you would want to know about installing a G2 throttle tube on a 06 'AE' except the one piece of information that I required. There were lots of warnings about being careful about the orientation of the heated grip wiring. There were warnings about marking the wiring so that you could get the grip back on with the same orientation as it came off. There were warnings about taking photos so you would have a reference. Did any of these smartasses actually post a picture so a dumbass such as myself could have a chance to gracefully recover from our own ineptitude. Not a Chance!!
In the end after some careful reasoning and sheer dumb luck I was able to reassemble the throttle assembly in a manner that allows the throttle to return under it's own return spring power with a satisfying clanking sound against its stop.
The moral of this story???
There is no such thing as a 10 minute job.
As a public service to the next dumbass that comes along I have supplied a few photos that may be of assistance...
I ended up with the wiring fairly close to the yellow line in the photo...
Make sure that the peg in the throttle housing fits into the hole in the bar for proper housing alignment or you will be repeating my story...
I am now going to comsume a jigger of Crown Royal and forget this ever happened. :drinks:
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