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[YZ250]

Right guys, should have one of these coming tomorrow on an 04 Plate, it's the baby 2.5 the 160, getting it for a stupidly low price, what do I need to look out for, cambelt history, headgasket, clutch, gearbox. Anything else?

VIS Valves on the inlet manifold failed as early as 40,000 miles. They jingle like a barsteward on tickover. A quick google will tell if all 2.5's were affected. Should have been a recall judging by the amount that failed. The plastic butterfly bar fails.

My brother-in-law has the 190. Sounds very nice when gunned. His VIS Valves jingle but it doesn't appear to have affected the performance at all.  :-/

Regards
Alan

[r1]

check the spark plugs

[russ0205]

Had a 75 with the v6 and it sounded so sweet, but just love the look of the zt ,

 

[sassanach]

i would dispute that it takes 8 hours to change the cambelts on a mgzt. it took me that long and i had to make the the tools, if you have the reqd tools about 4 to 5 hrs should do it (without removing the lump)