MT-10 SP - ANOTHER ENGINE DOWN!!!

Im guessing this might be a metal shaving left in the engine from the factory that blocked an oil line. Was a similar case on this forum before. Luckily thise things happen at warranty kilometers.

So what's that, three engines that have fragged themselves on this forum? How many more that don't post on this forum? Disconcerting to say the least. The first two owners have basically gone MIA.

definitely sucks. Glad you didn't go down with all that oil on the rear wheel.

For every 3 engines that you guys have read about blowing up there is thousands upon thousands of yamas that are running with high mileage perfectly fine......RELAX BOYS

I think this is the THIRD motor posted here that blows. Even if all 3 were Yamaha's fault (meaning no service/owner issue lead to the failure, like low oil level, etc), it's still a super low number, as mentioned, as there has to be at least several thousand FZ/MT-10s produced by now. Therefore, even if all 3 are Yamaha's fault, I suspect human error, like a tech not blowing oil passages properly, or such. If it was a bad batch of parts, or a design issue, there would be a lot more IMO.

Hey OP, is there any difference from SP bikes to regular ones? Looking at the same rev limit of 11,800 rpm on your bike, makes me think the answer is no, but rather ask. That means it doesn't matter if the bike is an SP or not; same engine. Also wonder how many R1 engines have failed. That engine is much more stressed, and more cross-plane R1s have been produced (since 2014?) than FZ/MT-10s. Curious about that.

My final thought is motors don't grenade all of a sudden. There's a progressive deterioration, but on noisy motorcycle engines, it's more difficult to detect if not looking for it. I'm not scared of my engine grenading, but what frustrates me is hearing how badly Yamaha is handling those cases. Months without your bike is absolutely ludicrous IMO.

The SPs have an electronically controlled ohlins suspension, a color tft dash, and a unique paint job. I believe those are the differences and they are otherwise the same mechanically.

That's why I was asking about R1 engines, since those are WAY more stressed than ours, by comparison, and Yamaha makes more of those too. Any failures reported? I'm sure both use the same block, but most internals might be different. Does anybody know? I'm not worried about my engine, but it's always possible to get a bad one even if you do everything right with it. I already had so many bad engines on my vehicles (1 F-150 V8, 2 Corvettes, 1 Pontiac GTO, 1 M3 V8, 1 Audi V8TT), that I hope my bad luck with that is over. He he. We'll see.

That's fair. After googling it, there were definitely a few 15 r1s that blew up, but there are kinks to work out in the first gen of any engine. I thought waiting til an 18 on this bike was the right move for that reason, given they were using the r1 as a base, but it may have been premature. In any case I think these incidents are by far the exception rather than the rule.

Havent had a lot of time to be on the forums, but i thought i updated my post regularly when i could regarding the motor. its running "fine" but time will tell, hopefully was just something from manufacturer and the rebuild will last, i just came back from a different dealer for warranty replacement of the headlamps as the low beam had approx 4-5 seperate cracks in the lens with no sign of rock impacts. took about 3 weeks to get yamaha to approve it, although the dealer was to blame in the delay. so new headlamps and rebuilt motor. im at the 10.2k mark on the motor at just over 1 year.