NEW BIKE STRECHED CHAIN

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I BOUGHT MY NEW 04 BUSA 4 DAYS AGO HAVE ONLY PUT 372 MILES ON IT AND HAVE HAD TO ADJUST MY CHAIN TO THE NEXT TO THE LAST HASH MARK ON THE SWING ARM CALLED THE DEALER AND HE SAID BRING IT IN SO I DID HE TOLD ME MINE WAS THE THIRD BUSA THAT HAD BEEN BROUGHT IN WITH THAT PROBLEM I HAVE NOT TAKEN THE BIKE OVER 7K RPM LIKE MY SALES REP SAID NOT TO IT HAS NOT BEEN HAMMERD AT ALL AND ALL READY HAVING THIS PROBLEM SCARED TO THINK OF WHAT WILL HAPPEN WHEN ITS BROKE IN AND I DO DROP THE HAMMER CAN ANYBODY GIVE ME ANY ADVICE THE DEALER DIDNT HAVE ANY
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hummm.... haven't heard that as common to be honest. Anything I am about to say really shouldn't have impacted a bike with that low of miles on it.

1. Maybe it was a bad chain?
2. Maybe it was overtightened to begin with.
3. Make sure you lub your chain with good oil. The wax they put on the new bikes doesn't soak in as well as the oil does.
 
well today i was able to talk to my sales rep who sold me my busa he was off yesterday when i took it in but he asured me (unlike suzuki) that it would be coverd under waranty so as long as they have it ready this friday i will be ok and as far as it being the wrong chain they told me at suzuki that the busa chain is specific to only fit busas thats what they told me atleast. thank you all for the feed back have a blessed day !
 
good luck, Suzuki will not cover any chain problems period!!!!!! I broke mine and tore up the engine cases, my suggestion to you is go buy the highest tensile strength chain you can find and get that stock one off the bike immediately. I installed a good chain and it, still to this day, has not stretched and I have over 3000 miles on it and I ride the bike like I stole it. My stock chain broke before I had 2500 miles on the bike after buying it new. Just my .02
 
The DID ZVM 530 is a good chain for Busa's and ZX-12's. The Tsubaki Sigma 530 is also a good chain for the big bikes.
 
REDE4CHRIST...

Hope you aren't a Christian finatic who has to put in his 2 cents wherever he can...

I am a Christian as well and I like your board name. I think it says it all and I haven't seen you post a bunch of poop yet. Of course you are only on your second post...
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Welcome to the board and I hope you aren't out there damning people for what they do or the mistakes they make like I have seen some others.

Anyway... welcome to the board and I am glad to see you bro if you know what I mean...

Cloud
 
Geez Cloud - You jump up in the Judgement Wagon to tell Rede that you hope he's not 'one of those' in the Judgement Wagon.  First you categorized him then you applied a categorization judgement.  You just might want to look up the word "hypocrite"...  
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Rede - Welcome to the board.  Follow John 7:24 and you'll be fine.

Steve

PS - I forgot about the main reason for the post. Rede, I've never heard of a chain stretching that much that fast. Something's wrong, obviously. I'd take it back to the dealer and politely insist that they spring for a new chain. If they refuse, oh well, but I wouldn't just ask once or twice, then roll over.



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you bible thumpin' bastids.....yer all fuggin' freaks.

Yer living yer lives an' preaching to others by what somebody wrote in a book.

What did people do before the printing press or the written word was invented.

I'm a devout....Nazi.
no wait...I'm a Taoist.
no...wait...I'm a Budhist.
No...thats not it...I'm a Restafarian.
No...I'm jewst kidding....I'm really a Hindu.

actually....yer all pretty much fugged .

Do yer homework.....I'll be saved...no matter what I do...

I'm Roman Catholic.

Do yer homework prayerboys... dont listen to yer PASTOR.

ACTUALLY check into it.....

yer all fuggin' doomed.....muuhhaaaa
 
OK.....REDI-FOR-CHRitsism.....here's the straight dope.

chain stretch that much , in that time...NOPE.

chain have too many links right from fac.....YUP .

Pull yer self away from the good book, an' yer daughters teenaged friend , go out to the garage an' count how many links in that chain....

stop thinking about cute young girls....

we know you are.....

HEATHEN.
 
Buy a good chain, my 04 does the same .busa stock chains are junk It's cheaper to replace then what it's going to mess up. Welcome
 
I don't get it..I got 16k out of my stock chain with the "blue" masterlink...never stretched untill the grease inside was gone..Ride two up..often..roll on wheelies, full gas speed runs, etc.. self proclaimed chain guru that i am...
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(PaceMaster @ Aug. 21 2004 said:
I don't get it..I got 16k out of my stock chain with the "blue" masterlink...never stretched untill the grease inside was gone..Ride two up..often..roll on wheelies, full gas speed runs, etc.. self proclaimed chain guru that i am...  
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HAHAHA!!!!! you don't ride it hard enough. Just kidding, you are definitely the odd one out in this subject, most everyone I have talked to had the same problem as i did stretched the chain so far you had to replace it anyway. If you have 16K on yours consider yourself lucky because those stock chains are junk.

I broke mine not knowing that it was the weak link and I paid for it, broken engine cases, water pump, shift shaft cover and all kinds of other carnage and I had to pay for it. Plus replace the chain which I installed a 530 ZVM I believe. Just make sure you keep an eye on that stocker.
 
For the first 1000 miles on my Busa I had to adjust my chain almost everytime I rode it. After that it lasted over 14000 miles with normal adjustments over time.

Welcome to the board
 
Figuring that busa's are mass produced, and that some poor soul has the job of counting the links for making the right length chain, wouldn't you think that someone just put 1 or 2 extra links too many by accident?

Over a couple thousand chains, i'm sure a few incorrect lengths are gonna happen.Just my .02
 
id get that chain off your bike before you do damage my stock chain streched like that and then broke within 600 miles I then got another stock chain and streched and broke that one pretty quick too it marred up my swingarm but that was it luckilly i put an RK 530xso chain i bought from the harley shop (for some reason harley shops are all i can find open late on saturdays)it has harley insignias and all and has only needed 2 adjustments in 2000 some odd miles of hard wheelieing and dragracing probly 60 or more runs deffinatly better then the stock one
 
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