TDM Chain Adjust - Duke Dyson
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 23 ม.ค. 2025
- Tip Top Top Tip: Just because it's cold and raining is no excuse to neglect routine maintenance. Nipping up the chain on my Yamaha TDM850 4TX is just a 10 minute job.
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Thanks mate, I think I will book it in as a matter of precaution. Looking forward to the upcoming Q&A with del.
cheers.
Very nice video atmosphere there, Mr Dyson.
Calm but fluid.
Cheers Alex, maintenance should have a Zen like quality I find, and soothing vibes help. Cheers for watching buddy
That's what I call getting your knee down!
Nice chill out music just as I am off to bed :)
Haha, it's about the only time I can manage it :)
Bloody Marvelous Mate ! Nice bit of editing right there..
Cheers Martin, thanks for watching :)
Nice tunes Duke... and a little freaky to see your clone march out of the garage at 0:42! :)
Cheers buddy, twice the hands, half the work :)
The master at work! Must be nice to be riding this time of year. Here in Canada, it will be a month or two before I consider riding my bike. Nice calming music by the way. Cheers, Rob
Cheers Rob, it snowed here today but not so much as to stop my ride to work. We're fortunate to able to ride most of the time. Ride safe (when you finally get to)
Very helpful video thanks
You're very welcome, glad it's of some use :-)
Manual says to do it on side stand, is that essential? also how critical is it to measure the slack?, manual says 50 to 60mm
The important thing is to have the weight of the bike on the suspension so it's slightly compressed, so side stand or paddock stand is good but not an Abbastand type that supports the swing arm. If the manual says 50 - 60mm then that's the measurement to use, just be sure you're measuring approx. midway between the sprockets and at the tightest point of the chain. The advantage of a paddock stand here is that you can easily rotate the wheel to find where the chain is at its tightest. As a rule of thumb more slack is better than too tight, particularly on a bike like the TDM which has a lot of suspension travel. Hope that helps :-)
@@DukeDyson thanks for the reply, most helpful. What kind of value do you put on these bolt on chain tensioners?, i've just fitted new chain and sprockets, n i've seen these tensuoners for sale from a maker called sundley and was thinking of fitting it.
@@johnyoung8495 I've seen them fitted to trials bikes to keep a deliberately loose chain tucked in to the sprocket and they're sometimes fitted to hardtail custom bikes possible in lieu of a traditional arrangement but personally I wouldn't fit one to a conventional road bike. If Yamaha thought one necessary they would have fitted one or at least offered it as a factory accessory :-)
Thanks for the info, appreciate and value ur reply 👍
Bravo
Some mellow tunes Sir...
Cheers GT, it's got me nodding off now lol
Hi,
I have just brought a tdm 850, it has 35k miles and wondered about cam chain and tensioners! Do they ever need to be adjusted or replaced? Only I have a suspisious ticking noise which seems to be coming from down the off side and wondered if it is something I should be concerned about.
Any advice on these bikes would be most helpfull.
Thanks
Jay. Fellow idiot collective .
Jason Garner Hi Jay, great choice of a hugely underrated bike, they're so much more fun than they should be once set up properly. I inspected the cam chains on mine at about 30K because of a slight ticking but they were ok then as was the tensioner. Have a look at www.carpe-tdm.net/ipb/ there's is every question you could possibly think of already answered on there.Ride safe and enjoy many smiles per gallon :)
I love it Yamaha TDM!! :-D
They are a great bike for sure. Cheers for watching :)
I also have!!! Very good bike!! :-D
Good stuff again Sir, do you normally do your maintenance in leathers? ;)
Cheers buddy, not normally no, but this was a quick tweak after Sunday's romp. Maybe it'll catch on :)
Красава!
I'm struggling to find a translation, but thank you for watching and taking the time to comment.
@@DukeDyson Good evening! I apologize for writing in Russian slang. I liked the video, everything is very clear! Smooth roads!
@@arraigar Cheers for the reply and thank you once again.
Looked suspiciously like 'Washing" there for a moment buddy.....we need to talk, you cant do that to a hard earned patina....sacrilage..!
Only the bits that are ripe for a tweak, wouldn't want to get my sockets dirty :)
DukeDyson
Ahh good point there mate...nothing worse than a dirty socket..
proper motorsickle maintenance....non of this shaftie nonsense.........ha ha ha!!!
and outside in the rain too........must be mad (and must tidy up the cave so I can actually get in there)