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My crannk from him came with a beefy looking rod on it. I had thought all he installed was 'the good ones'...

No, in original post he wanted to know what parts from later models he could swap across to make it part time 4WD. Those are the parts I was mentioning. I probably just worded my post wrong. Full time 2WD would be easy I'd think. Destroy a couple of half shafts to get the hub portion and send it.

http://www.mrcrankshaft.com/ If I had to guess. Somewhere in the 250 range. He's in western TN or KY somewhere. I think I paid 248 shipped for mine and it cost 22 or something to send it out from INdiana to him.

Used Mr Crankshaft for mine to rebuild the crank. Enjoyed doing bidness with him.

I thought someone bought the rights and is still producing?

That does suck. Do you have local places like rockymountainatv in Canada that would sell you OEM parts cheaper to convert to 2WD?

On the fuel tank deal. On mine. I ran a filter for a while while i was diagnosing. Kept getting a stuck float due to debris running out of the tank. Its really tough to fit them in due to the design of the carbs and system. After getting scolded by a senior member here. I flushed the tank good and put it back together w/o the filter. Never had a problem after that. How I knew I had a problem was fuel would randomly run out on the floor after I'd shut it off. I have heard that a piece of debris can easily clog a main jet, though.

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I'd take this guys recommendations. He has taught his ATVs to swim and dodge big(really big) snakes. If the 424 spends its life underwater and still works...then its passed the grueling test in my book.

Before i Started mine after the rebuild. I had the VC off(the oil feeds on my 450 go in to drillings in the VC and get squirted on the valves)...I cranked it til it spurted oil out. Its not high pressure like a car is. As soon as I saw it spurt out, I put it back together and ran it. The oil pump on the 450 has a oil pump bypass on it(it goes straight from pump to filter to oil cooler to engine if I recall right). So if the filter is deadheaded(put in backwards) then it will bypass back to the crankcase. I 'suspect' that the oil pump would be fine....but depends on how hot the pump got. But I think I saw someone on here show a twisted off oil pump shaft at one point in last few months but I can't recall what caused that. I think the engine was in much worse shape. 450s runs off the front of the camshaft. As for damage. On my 450. The oil pump feeds in to the crankshaft. The crankshaft distributes oil to the rod and the piston pin(or maybe not the pin....I can't recall...it may be splash oiled). Seems to me it also then feeds over to the trans bearings to pump oil through the shafts as there's a shaft/bushing over there on mine that would suffer from lack of oil too. Any gears should be OK as they run in oil. Its the bushings/bearings that would suffer. I think the sealed bearings would retain oil during a oil change and if you didn't run it hard that oil should have been OK. I'm far from one of the experts on here though. I'd rebuild the top end and put it back together and see how it acts. Its not hard to dig in and inspect/replace though. Oddly fun but sounds like you have done it before. Good luck.

On my 98 ,the VIN is on the front crossmember under the front fenders. Very top flat L Shaped cross member. VIN is on top surface. I have seen someone here say which letter signifies the VIN. I don't recall. Post a pic of the front/side of your bike(super easy on this site) and I'm sure someone can shout out the year of it. Being a 450. I 'think' they only offered them for a few years. I have a 450S that's a 98(first year). 04 is the end of that 'square' body style then they got a face lift. I'm not sure, though, what the look of the new one was. Post that first generation they moved to front disk brakes...but I'm not sure if the 450 survived beyond the first few years. Still learning myself

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Merry Christmas everyone! Had a dusting of snow here. Closest we've gotten to a white Christmas in years.

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Should be easy enough to find replacement bearings for them...assuming they are standard sized bearings. I know in the 450 engine they used a few custom ones....hopefully they didn't in the Hondamatics. Good Luck!!

Supposed to get some snow tonight. Probably less than an inch. Boring. Maybe more tomorrow. Hoping to have at least ground cover!

Hrmmmm, I have this problem on mine. On decel's it popps. I'll pull it apart sometime. I loosely checked it and it at rebuild and it seemed OK(no airflow in my hands)...but I will double check. Things ain't cheap!

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