Clargo Garage- how to change a drive belt on a motorcycle, 1700 Yamaha Silverado -episode 34 

Thank-you for watching! Happy my videos help, I have quite a few on this bike , and have a few more coming out soon, safe travels 👍

Thank-you, love getting great feedback 👍. Thanks for watching Charlie, I'm from Canada, awesome to be watched from so far away 👍

Thanks, glad my videos help , if you have any questions when you do it feel free to ask, and thanks for watching

Thank-you! And thanks for watching 👍 that's awesome , I want to make it over there one of these years , I'm in Canada

Thanks for the positive feedback! And thanks for watching! I have alot of videos on this bike (30 or 40 something I think now haha), I'm currently taking mine apart to check the valves (been awhile since I've checked / adjusted them) , there will be a video to follow. How do you like the Barnett pressure plate ? Did you do friction and steel plates to or just pressure plates ? I'm planing this winter on doing a new pressure plate , and possibly friction/steel plates, I'm still running the OEM pressure plate , was into it years ago and torqued it abit extra so it would be abit more aggressive but I can tell it's starting to get tired again (was about 100000km ago now) . Good catch , it's expensive to replace that shaft and pulley and it took forever to come in. Yes sir , I'm Ontario, but next month I'll be passing through Manitoba , planing on putting on 10000km in 10 days , I'll have around 200000km or close to it on my bike when I get home lol there a great bike , couple week points on them, but over all awesome bike

@@ClargoGaragei just did the purple Barnett pressure plate and springs. I have not run it yet as i found the loose drive pulley nut after i buttoned up the clutch job. Iv got a washer coming for behind the nut, there wasnt one on my bike. 😳

@@ClargoGarageit would be fun to meet up and ride together for a couple hours when your coming threw my stomping grounds next month! I tried leaving my email in a comment but i think thee ole youtube doesn't like that cause my comments keep disappearing.

Definitely let me know how you like the clutch, I may put the same one in mine this winter. Good catch !

That would be fun , I'll try leaving my email in a comment right below this comment , once you get it I'll remove it. We can see if we can plan something out that works for us

Your welcome, Thanks and thanks for watching 👍

The dealer / 99% of people say 80000-100000km 50000-60000miles, I've snapped 2 belts with significantly less mileage on them ( around 45000km 30000miles) but they had alot of hard light to light launches on them, and burnouts , riding in below zero temps and riding on alot of dirt roads , the first one that snapped looked like a rock might of partly cut it , I was leaving work it was around 0C there was about 70 feet of dirt parking lot , I always left sideways and it snapped no warning. Second one that snapped was a aftermarket one that was alot cheaper , it started to stretch abit racing light to light gave me some warning, on a hard launch it sounded like it was jumping teeth on the sprocket , I was Buisy and was going to adjust on the weekend so I was just driving it easy for a few days but the damage was done and it broke the day before I was going to get into it and I was going very light on the throttle. So I change my belts around 50000km 35000miles just for peace of mind for myself , I can normally find genuine Yamaha belts for $200ish , when I'm on a long trip I don't halfto worry and I do the work my self so the only cost is the belt and abit of my time , but when I'm 3000+ km from home I'm not worried about it braking . In conclusion if your not hot rodding you should be good for 80000-100000 km 50000-60000mils and if you are hot rodding lots half that for a safety margin would be my recommendation ( 50000km 30000mile) . Periodic checks on alignment and tenchen are good to I check about once a month tenchen and a few rides in a row for alignment . Sorry for the long winded answer , hope this helped and thanks for watching 👍

I believe mine is 130 teeth. I just went on a Yamaha sight with a parts break down and checked my belt # and your belt # ( assuming I picked the right bike, selected first 09 road star) and both bikes are showing the same belt # 5PX-46241- 11-00 Double check what you have for a part number or contact your local dealer and have them give you the part number to verify it , but if it's the same one it's 130 tooth belt and you can get new ones on eBay that will work , and some of the Yamaha sights have good deals some times on them , but double check your part number just incase I was looking at the wrong bike. Thanks for watching and if you have any questions don't hesitate to ask 👍 hope this helped abit