It's not something I'd do. Can't see that bit of wire coping with vibration, high rpm and salt spray for very long and there's the risk that it'll mangle an O-ring once it gets loose.
The big nut, screwlock and tab washer will do the job fine.
Personally, I seriously think that the wire I have on will hold but one is free to put tougher wire on or use another method.
The whole point of my post was that IMO, some form of protection for the nut should be put in place. The member "Unfazed" have a fantastic fix in the downloads.
Mine is more simple but i'm confident will still do the job. I certaily ain't going around being Yamaha's guinea pig for the new nut and have nothing to catch the nut from coming off the shaft in the event of another catastrophic failure.
I was lucky once. Yamaha could have killed me and 50% of other riders on this forum. I am not going to give them the opportunity again. I was riding up to speeds of 80-90-100mph without a nut on my sprocket. Could you imagine what would have happened if the whole sprocket came off?? And all we are relying on here is a similar nut with a bit more thread and a bit of faith in Yamaha that it will do....
no thanks!!So I rather take the risk of a mangled o-ring than a mangled me! As I said, there are other fixes out there if you don't want to use my wire fix. But please do something. My nut didn't fall off over night. I had 23k up on my bike.
To those who are concerned that I had only one tab washer properly in place.......
....one tab washer is good enough believe it or not. The nut wouldn't have the force to lift even one tab when is bent down on the nut properly along with proper torque and threadlock. Not that i'm recommending using one tab only. But I would like to point out that there are many many bikes that don't even have tab washers at all on them and are just secured by the proper torque settings and threadlock. The tabs were not the problem.
The problem was the flimsy threads and material of Yamaha's nut. Out of 50% of the owners here who lost their nut, I'd say all of them had their two tabs properly in place along with proper torque and maybe even threadlock thrown into the bargain.
The nut didn't force it's way past the tabs. The problem it seems was that the nut with its flimsy material and lack of enough thread stripped over time, then backed away far enough from the shaft that the tab washer came off the shaft too, and both happily spun around until exiting stage left. You could have had ten tabs secured onto the nut and it still wouldn't have prevented the catasrophic failure that happened.
But once again....the point of my post got lost over my tab. The message that I was conveying was that if I was peeps here, I'd go suss out some way of blocking the end of the shaft for the nut and sprocket to fall off if Yamaha's new nut have a similar catastrophic failure. Your life could depend on it.
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