So I have a 2016 XT 1200. Which has been service and maintained as per the manual has just reached 10,000 miles. I was riding for approximately four hours at around about three hours and 45 minutes I heard a very strange noise, like someone had poured a bag of ball bearings into my engine. Of course I stopped and checked it out to see what I can find, no warning lights no smoke no other problems just the noise. Got my wife to bring the truck to collect me took it to the local dealer. After four hours of work they’re now telling me the oil is completely covered in metal so much so, that it looks more like glitter than oil. They estimate 27 hours of work at $85 an hour to find out what the causes. On initial findings after they scoped from the top end, pistons valves, housing in all looks intact with no problems. My question here is do you think it would be the oil pump failing, and causing drama, even though I’m not burning smoke the oil’s in good shape apart from the metal that’s in it now. I’m just wondering if there’s a service bulletin about this issue because the mechanics at Yamaha don’t seem to know what caused the problem. And of course the bike is just 10 months out of warranty. Any help is greatly appreciated.
also if anybody knows where I can buy a reconditioned motor that would be great thank you
also if anybody knows where I can buy a reconditioned motor that would be great thank you