New to me DRZ400

[TWJohn]

The HD Sportster I had was allot of fun with good power but this trail or dual sport riding has bit me hard. I refuse to sell my TW200 so the Sportster had to go. I swapped for this DRZ400S. The Deal just happened to work out well. It needs a few things but runs well. As a Bonus it is blue/white, The same as my TW. DRZ The pinnacle of Dual Sports @kylepeterson  WOOOOOO

[yamahamer]

Nice looking Dizzer.
Get some case savers for it fast! the shifter will punch a hole as soon as you drop it to the left.

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[TWJohn]

Good call. I remember hearing about that.

[Mulley]

That's great. Blue is the fastest color too.

I will always have a special place in my heart for DRZs. I've had immeasurable amounts of fun on mine.

While you are going through it and prepping for all of the adventures to come, put some threadlocker on the stator bolts. It's a known problem and I destroyed my stator when one of the bolts loosened while I was deep in the woods.

Another problem is the countershaft sprocket becoming loose and leaking oil. There is a threadlocker fix for this too.

Otherwise, go out and enjoy.

[ktmer]

What year was your sporster? I have mine for sale now.

[kylepeterson]

all those horror stories about bolts backing out and nuts falling off are true. drz's should come with loctite from the factory, but they don't !

do the loctite fixes, check your valves (as a baseline) and then check them again in a year or two. the 'free power mod' is needed for most bikes, as the drz stator is weak as a 2 dolla ho.

rev it ! it's ok to rev the dizzer, it likes it. rev the tits off it and make the happy bbbbbpppapapapapapap sound anytime you feel the need.

change the oil every 1,000 miles, to keep the stator from coaking up and burning itself into oblivion.

and ride it. drz's loooooove to have some miles on em. my old black dizzer has 50,000+ on it. the 'new' yeller one, who knows. i don't care how many miles a drz has, they're all the same. crappy, heavy, and a ton of fun :-)

congrats !

[TWJohn]

The Sportster was a 2004 1200. The only scary thing this DRZ had was a pretty good tick which turned out that the manual cam chain tensioner was loose. Once I snugged that it was all quiet and happy.