I am putting a 1996 yamaha timberwolf engine in a 1992 timberwolf quad. Everything fits except the wiring. The old quad engine had 6 wires coming from the engine and the 1996 engine has 7 wires. I know that the four together should go to the same places as the four prong but on the old engine there was 2 other wires and the new engine has 3. On the old engine one of the wires was yellow and the other was white. On the 1996, all three wires are white. HELP. How can I wire them up. Has anyone done this before. Thanks.

 

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who are you looking for? manual? sometimes goes by the nick names of clymer or service.

I am not trying to be a pecker head........but it floors me to see just how many people do engine work with out having proper specs.

Would you take your machine to a service shop (and pay for it) that said " we don't have any shop manuals............but our technition has a good idea of what the spec should be"? This kinda work reminds me of the "it blew my finger outta spark plug hole......so it must have compression" or " the piston looks to be tight in the cyl......so the clearances must be right".

Do your self a favor and get a manual.

 

It also floors me why peckerheads like yourself even replies to stuff that evidently even You don't know anything about. Even the manual does not give a good description of where the wires go. I went to the yamaha shop and even they could not help out to much. One would think that a 1996 Timberwolf engine would fit in a 1992 Timberwolf. They had to switch it from single stage in 92 to three stage in 96, so now I found out that the 96 charging system would not work with 92 wiring harness because of the difference in single stage versus three stage. Is there any other intellegent people out there that may can help because this peckerhead does not have a clue.

 

You are right I have no time on or with the timberwolf.

This peckerhead is thinking that you are saying they upgraded the charging system from a full wave charging system to a 3 phase charging system. If this is correct you might be able to use the stator and rotor assembly from the "92" engine. This will depend on how much the mounting has changed and wether or not the newer engine will run correctly with the older engines ignition components and settings. Or you could replace the wiring harness and other components from a "96".

IMO: the harness/compenent swap would be the best way to go.

 

Thanks for the help. Thats what I'm gonna try to do. I did not mean to come off wrong, but I had asked for help and You made it sound like I was an idiot for asking. I have done some research and I had not got any help from anyone and that was not the answer that I was looking for. This site is for information to help each other out and any time that I need help it has been great. Again, Thanks and I'm sorry if I offended you here.

 

When I posted that I had just finished a fixing job that made a machine go from bad to worse, could have been prevented if the person (friend of mine) had used the manual he has instead of guessing at specs. That is one of the things I like about the "dirt toys", most people are able to get their hands dirty and do most of the wrenching themselves. IMO a service manual is one of the best specialty tools you can have as a diy person.

Don't know if this will help or not but yamaha does have some method to their part numbers.
example 2gu-14101-01-00 is a banshee #1 carb assembly
2xj-14101-01-00 is a blaster carb assembly

exact same carb, the 1st three digits are used to signify what model the part was originally assigned to. If I remeber right the the next 5 are the part description and the last for are used to signify updates and changes.