What did you do to your WR today?

[gsa102]

I bought an 07 450 today (woo hoo) after test riding it! I am soo excited to get it home next week and get it muddy! I ordered radiator guards at the shop and they are going to install them for me before it take it home. Thumpertalk was invaluable in my research to select a bike. I was looking at a lot of different colors, but big blue has always been my favorite.

[resinlips]

I bought an 07 450 today (woo hoo) after test riding it! I am soo excited to get it home next week and get it muddy! I ordered radiator guards at the shop and they are going to install them for me before it take it home. Thumpertalk was invaluable in my research to select a bike. I was looking at a lot of different colors, but big blue has always been my favorite.

Congrats on the purchase. May I suggest tearing down the linkage and all swingarm pivot points for regreasing weather the bike is new or used. At the factory they put minimal grease for god knows what reason.

I let mine go too long and today when inspecting all of it I didnt like what I found. All new bearings, seals, spacers, and bolts, are needed.

Edited January 23, 2010 by resinlips

[byggd]

The factory uses what some refer to as string cheese grease. Here is a good step by step to replace the cheese with real grease.

https://www.thumpertalk.com/forum/showthread.php?t=216791&highlight=bearings

Edited January 23, 2010 by byggd

[gsa102]

I sure will. Thanks for the inside info.

[swolf]

I sure will. Thanks for the inside info.

Me too. I have learned alot here:thumbsup:

[gsa102]

I brought my "new" lightly used 07 WR 450 home today and took it for a ride. As I was riding, I was thinking, "where has this bike been all my life?" Now I know why you guys are all hooked.

I had them put on Moose radiator braces. I'll post pics as soon as I figure out how. Not that you can see the braces anyway.

[swolf]

installed Moose radiator braces and aluminum hand guards. and cleaned all the mud off from IMI.

[Paco Paez]

Intalled the yamalink on my 09wr450 I'm still wating for works conection skid plate from chaparral let me down orderd plate on the 6th and I haven't got it talked to some supervisor and asked to send someone to werehose next door to get it for me and she seid they couldnt do that they were behind I'm pised.

[1991cbr600f2]

Installed my black unabiker rad guards, added F&R brake light switches, and a handle bar headlight switch for high and low beam headlight, on my 07 wr450.

Other mods I did previously were JD jet kit, zip-ty fuel mixture screw, all free mods, billit insert w one 1/2 hole drilled in baffle behind insert, AIS delete, greased all rear suspension, need to do front steering head still, DOH!,? , extra rear wheel with paddle tire mounted, top speed I got in sand w paddle tire was 78mph, that all she had, lol.

Thus I since added the 1/2 hole, currious to see if it any faster next dune trip.

Did I say how much I love this bike, .

next up will be a new skid plate.

[swolf]

Got my 06 WR450F titled and plated today:banana:

[motodiver13]

Destroyed stuff. See post: I am an IDIOT

Edited January 30, 2010 by motodiver13
didn't make sense

[stev0]

Summmooooooo

[Paco Paez]

Took pictures of my ready to ride 09 wr450 installed works conection skid plate last night PACO

[Paco Paez]

Took pictures of my ready to ride 09 wr450 installed works conection skid plate last night PACO

sorry my picture didnt show paco.

picture in my profile

Edited January 31, 2010 by Paco Paez
picture in my profile

[headbolt]

I installed a Z Start Pro Rekluse clutch on my 07 WR450, was extremly easy to install with great instuctions. Just putted around the shop have'nt put it to test yet, but seems ok so far. Will give full report when the snow melts here in New Mexico.

[Paco Paez]

went for a ride to test my suspencion after instaling yamalink found out i have to bring my treaple clamps up some more front tire wants to stay glood to the ground will do it tomorrow and do some more testing

[comtnrider]

Headbolt, I put the Rekluse Pro in my WR last spring and road with it all summer. You're going to love it! The nastier the trail, the more you are going to smile!

[headbolt]

comtnrider, That's good to hear, can't wait to try it out fully when the snow stops flying here. We ride mostly tough single track in the mountains of NM, pretty nasty. You probably do the same in Colorado. Thanks for the reply Comtnrider! Full ride report coming soon.

[123BigcoopDawg576]

Pulled the wheels to replaced bearings/seals (Excel Pro Series Hub/Wheels)

Checked the valves for the 4th time @ 100 hrs....surprise surprise they have not moved?

Changed out the original plug

[ws6transam]

Well, it's not exactly a 450, more like a 501cc after rebore... but (!) It is a WR, one of only about a 1000 ever made. I hope you don't mind...

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I painted my modified clutch cover last night. It's now Mercedes silver in color and matches the engine cases moderately well. I milled it open, then re-welded a new top onto it, thus extending it .250" outwards in order to clear the custom EFM Autoclutch, which Garry at EFM custom-CNCed for my WR500:

I haven't yet taken a picture of it, but the clutch cover, after TIG welding the magnesium, required a bit of work to make the welds nearly invisible. In fact, it's tough to tell that it's even been modified.

Here it is, as a two-piece, before welding:

Here's another shot that shows a closeup of the autoclutch basket, and the captive clutch plate. The clutch is normally disengaged, and then as RPM picks up, all those ball bearings get flung outwards down ramps by centrugal force, and that pushes the captive clutch plate into the clutch pack, engaging the clutch. It should help make that big Eric-Gorr ported 2-stroke a bit more tractable in the woods. The clutch fanning was killin' me in the tight stuff and I've climbed more than my share of trees. Plus, when you kill the motor with too much rear brake, it's a pain to kick over that 500 2t, especially when you are already panting from the labor of squeezing 36-inch wide handlebars through a 32-inch trail. The next mod is to tuck in the forks, pull the rear wheel forward as far as possible, then get me some hi-rise, shorty handlebars.