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Those pictures are from when the center rod went on my 2006 Nytro. In the picture of the "top of the piston" you can see the slightest indentation in one of the valve relief cut outs, but it does not look very significant... BUT the valve associated was also slightly bent. Theory could be that a...

No, I do not believe so or at least not verified (both sleds were purchased used). Is this a common failure method if it jumps timing? in both instances they were still running/driving (for 1-2 minutes) on two cylinders after the center rod ejected. Both were shut down after seeing the oil...

Must be doing something wrong as my Dad's 2005 RS Rage (same 973cc carbureted 3 cylinder) just did the same thing, though several years later. Machine has about 8k miles on it and is even rocking the transplanted hood from the ill fated RS Nytro as his hood was in rougher shape. Not sure what...

Thanks! Yeah, looking for RS Rage, RS Vector and RS Nytro motors. Will do, hopefully I get it back together. It's actually in really good shape, so I'd hate to see it just parted out.

Yeah, just really unlucky as far as I can tell. Thankfully my dad has a nice heated pole barn with loads of tools and quite a bit of experience working on sleds for the last 35+ years. Probably going to plan on putting a used motor in it if I can find one, possibly from a wrecked sled. They're...

Here's a photo album of my nytro's engine after it threw a rod through the side of the motor. Not 100% sure on the cause; it doesn't look like the piston hit the valves and the bearing and wrist pin were loose. Piston also moved freely. Maybe just a fatigue failure? Valves looked good from what...

My 2006 Rs Nytro decided to throw the center rod right through the block. It's gonna be torn down, but I'm curious what you think happened. I was just riding it around the yard and I hit it across a ditch and just heard a loud, quick smacking noise, almost like when the track or chain slips. It...

Had a rage that used to idle perfectly but run horribly on the top end. Turned out to be a bad fuel pump.

Huh? It was moved FROM the RS section TO the FX section, right? Isn't this the FX section? I posted it in the RS section Monday and now there's a redirect from there to here. To be fair though, I've gotten more information here than I did there.

Yeah, this post was moved from the RS section, but I'm not entirely certain as to why though.

Pretty sure it's factory, our 05 rage has the exact same hole in the exact same location. Curiously though, my 06 Nytro does not.

I just purchased a 2006 Yamaha Nytro ER with 4xxx miles on it, and I'm wondering how it's going to handle. I'm coming from a 2001 Arctic Cat ZR 500, which is very light and handles very well. My father, whom I frequently ride with, has a 2005 Yamaha RS rage with Fox Float 2's on it and skis off...

Thanks, I'll look into it. They seemed pretty tight when I pulled them off, but it's hard to say for sure.

Rage battery doesn't appear to be charging. I'm getting no voltage change at the battery terminals even if I rev it up. 30A main fuse is good and the resistance readings I got from the stator seem good. I used a multimeter and set it to the lowest setting (200) and got a reading of .3 ohms on...

Are you sure it's the stator? Are you using a standard multimeter? I read that standard multimeters have a difficult time reading under 1 ohm. The last digit on the 200 setting on my 4 digit multimeter, and forgive me if I have this wrong, only reads to the tenths place. Therefore when I check...