Trip to VBR rally in Duluth,MN

[midnightventure]

I just got back from 1700 mile trip to Duluth with a side trip to Chippewa Falls to see my daughter. Everything went pretty good except the first night when I pulled into the campground in Iowa I smelled antifreeze. Got off the bike and looked and one tube had a dent and there was a double spray of antifreeze. Thought my whole trip was ruined. I bought some stopleak and a package of JB Weld waterweld.Put the stopleak in and mixed up a ball of the epoxy and smashed it in around the damaged tube. Very nervously the next morning we headed on north. Never saw a drop of fluid leak or I probably would have turned around and headed back home. I hauled 2 gallons of antifreeze around the rest of the trip just in case.

Tonight looking online for a new radiator the cheapest price I found was from a boat dealer. I was searching with the Yamaha # that I found at a motorcycle website.

4XY-12461-00-00

That surely is the same # all the way through the Yamaha system and they don't have a boat radiator with the same #. Maybe it fits a jetski. Can anybody confirm this?

[sarges46]

Cant help ya....but nice pics..pretty rough camping at the hydro line.

 

I hope you find what ya need. Have you checked ebay....there was a 07/08 being parted out. Or a rad shop might be able to fix the rad for you?

[midnightventure]

I found out Yamaha boat dealers can sell motorcycle parts. This boats.net had the best price and free shipping that I could find. Already ordered it from them. Thats actually a ski lift I'm camped under. Pretty rough. I saw four bikes on their sides in the first 2 hours I was there. Heard about several others. I think people got used to it and the grass got beat down where we could see the rough stuff better. I did find out I could take the Venture places I never would have tried before.

Edited August 26, 2008 by midnightventure
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