A short post this one, but highlighting my point in a recent post about this project being a lot like war – long periods of boredom, in my case typically waiting for parts to arrive.
The little sucker pictured is a thin rubber gasket that sits between the oil pump and the crankcase. It costs less than two dollars. It also needs to go on before the entire clutch assembly and outer cases can be put back on, in other words it has BLOCKER written all over it in project terms. It should have been, but wasn’t, included in the ‘complete’ gasket set I bought for the rebuild.
It also needs to come from Japan, which means another two to three weeks of lost time.
C’est la vie.
I’ve done a real mixture of buying parts from online OEM providers, aftermarket parts again from online providers, and OEM parts from my local Yamaha dealership. While there’s no single right provider from my perspective, I do want to give a shout out to the guys at Yamaha World in Melrose Park. When I started this project I had two thirds of bugger all idea about what I was doing, and as I’ve gotten deeper into the project these guys have become more and more helpful in finding me the parts I need and generally giving out advice on where I’m at. The OEM parts they’ve sold me have all been around the same price as the online OEM providers like Trooper Lu and Excite Motorsports (whose website now seems to be broken for me), but factoring in Yamaha World not charging any shipping fees for getting parts from interstate or overseas and they are no different (if not cheaper). So thanks to Yamaha World, they will be on my list of places to visit and say thanks once the bike is back on the road.
And now, back to the waiting game.