Misterclean

10 hours ago, Chevymec said:

This reminds me I need to put the trickle charger on. Haven't started it since Jan 2.

I spent big money on a fancy Battery Tender for four batteries. I just replaced the battery for the first time on my 2014 TRX 420....They pay for themselves. 

Thanks Jeep for your humility concerning this subject. Thanks Wilson for the personal message to say hi. I'm back for the first time in many months.....many months. I enjoyed this forum for the most part but left several years ago (with just a few visits per year) because of the politics and religion. This is the first post I viewed and to my pleasure discovered this new opinion concerning volatile issues. I am a strong conservative Christian man that has learned to be very careful.....I have very strong opinions like everybody else but realized that Truth in Love trumps all else. I'm back for a while to see how it goes. You "old timers" may remember that I'm not a huge four wheeler enthusiast yet I own two and that my real passion is dirt bikes. I do enjoy listening to conversations about certain problems and even contributing if I have some insight. This feels good and it's good to be back.

6 hours ago, Freedomflyer said:

Crybabies!😁

You know what real cold weather feels like !

8 hours ago, Fishfiles said:

Wow. So sad.  I seen something years ago that was awful.  Was working 1/2 block away. Found out later that it was caused by a guy that was drilling a hole in an aluminum center counsel which incorporated the gasoline fuel tank of a boat.  Didn’t realize that he was drilling into the tank.  Blew him to pieces and burnt him to a crisp. Lost both arms and legs but he lived. The entire metal building was destroyed and had to demolished 

I was a freshman or sophomore in high school (1974, 1975?), same train tracks two blocks south of my shop's location today, an 18 wheeler hauling gas stalled on the rr crossing here in Spring Texas. A southbound train hit the truck and exploded on impact. The one of the men on the train were able to hit the brakes but the fireball of a train still went about a half mile thru town before it stopped. I lived a block and a half from the impact zone. Killed two or three men. An arm with burned hair was found in front of my friends house which faces the tracks a few hundred feet from the impact. Later that afternoon I watch them pulled out a stiff crispy body from the train and put it in a plastic bag. The last man was hard to find because he had attempted to survive the gasoline fire by hiding himself in a compartment in the floor.

23 hours ago, jeepwm69 said:

 

Got the brake pads and pivot pin out of the backing plate this morning.  Had to use my press on the pivot pin, and my old MAPP gas torch to heat up the brake shoes to get them off of the pivot pins.

 

MAPP-Pro gas in the little yellow bottles sucks now.  It's basically glorified expensive propane.  MAPP was 5300 degrees.  MAPP Pro is 3730,  Propane is 3600.  MAPP was discontinued in 2008.  I had some I used for a long time, and when it ran out I got MAPP-PRO not realizing it was different.....until I used it and found it sucks.

 

I have Oxy/Acet torches, I just need to get my regulator checked.  It's from the old man, and is probably 30-40 years old, and I'm concerned that the diaphragm might not still be sealed.  Don't really want to blow myself up.

 

Gotta order a new drum cover, as when I was driving the old seal out of the old one I noticed a pin hole in the cover (which is probably why it was dry inside and full of dust instead of mud), and am going to put a new bearing in the backing plate while I have it off.  Also getting a new hub since the sealing surface on the old one was grooved. 

Good idea to check for leaks on the diaphragm. Earlier this year I heard an explosion close to my shop. My shop is just a few hundred feet off the train tracks and some some sparks from a grinder made their way around the spark screen and ignited a leak in work crew's oxygen tank. The door from the cabinet blew off it's hinges striking the workman in the back. I hurried over to check it out. His body was jelly at the impact point. He died a few minutes later. I had visions for several weeks of the suffering man.

On 6/24/2023 at 9:51 PM, Fishfiles said:

Flipped my 300 upside down in the water today , my leg got stuck under the atv , I was pinched and couldn't get my leg out , almost drowned , lucky my buddies acted quick and got it off me quick ---- got a really bad bruised up thigh , black an blue and swollen ---- can't take a pic as I lost my phone , some kind of way the dry box opened and the phone went in the water , spent a few minutes feeling around on the bottom with no luck 

I had to help a friend out on two occasions in similar situations. One was a young teenager ripping it up on my trails while i was mowing some grass with my tractor. I just happened to look over and saw he was trapped after flipping his wheeler. He had been there a few minutes! LOL Another time me and a friend were riding our dirt bikes in the Sam Houston National Forrest. I was in the lead and came to a fork in the trail. I stopped so he would know which fork to take. Waited several minutes and backtracked a few miles to find him trapped under his bike. Somehow he crashed in a high sandy berm and his foot peg was on top of his helmet pinning him to the ground. One of the funniest things I've seen.

Wow Shade, the wheeler looks almost new!

4 minutes ago, shadetree said:

answer me this, how are you going to get the bread..or whatever you use ?, down under the bearing from the start ?, if there is no room under the bearing, i do not see how you can get anything under it to push this bearing out. this bearing sits down flush inside the case, as in..flat down inside, no space under the bearing. if there was a space under the bearing ?, then yeah..this might work, but seeing how the bearing is all the way down inside the case, i do not see it working..but hey..what do i know ?..i'm just a home school'ed mechanic !..lol.

The biggest concern I have with this method is that the hydraulic effect is great enough to crack that thin aluminum bearing housing before the bearing pushes out. I have used grease.to push the pilot bearing from a flywheel on a car but that is a heavy steel part.

9 hours ago, jeepwm69 said:

Well after running my hone through this one a few times, it didn’t clean up as well as I’d hoped.   
 

So looks like off the G&H with it.

I agree with you Jeep. $200 extra is cheap compared to your time investment.

1 hour ago, Fishfiles said:

Watching the local weather right now , we got 80-85  degrees forecast high for the next 7  days in a row and no rain in February --- sweet !!  

Us too here in SE Texas. Going to be a record hot month if true.

3 hours ago, shadetree said:

no..1st gear on the 500's..4th gear was a problem on the 420's.

Gotcha. I thought they were basically the same

On 2/11/2023 at 1:58 AM, shadetree said:

@jeepwm69 , first gear was the upgraded gear set, no need to replace it, it looked to be in great shape. i guess honda already installed the upgraded gear set in '06 ?..not sure ?, but i did check the gear set, everything looked great.

I thought it was 4th gear instead of 1st gear?

Hey Jeep I haven't forgotten this is a bore gauge subject.  Ha ha

1 minute ago, retro said:

And because E-MC2 is completely false the idiots had to go on to make up more crap like black holes, dark matter and dark energy to prop up their idiotic imagination of the nature of reality. That's why they are known as quackademics.

 

Isaac Newton was another of their twisted disinfo puppets. There is no such thing as gravity, only density, buoyancy and magnetism, The apple that fell from a tree and hit poor Isaac on the head must have knocked him out. It's just a child's tale anyway, a liar telling a lie.

So you believe in a flat earth?

4 hours ago, retro said:

 

^^^^ THIS ^^^^

 

 

^^^ Don't be fooled by that nonsense ^^^ Energy is not the same entity as mass. And energy and mass cannot be changed into one another. There is no physical relationship whatsoever between the properties of mass and properties of energy. The only relationship Albert understood was incest. The evil twisted idiot married his cousin, then married her daughter for cryin' out loud !!!!

 

EDIT: Sorry I didn't intend to come across as an attacker. I'm not.... I just can't stand lies of any sort. Incestuous evil brainwashers like Einstein in particular light me up!

Ok. The theory of relativity is the most proven equation in the world. Every physicist relies on it being true.

33 minutes ago, shadetree said:

on ring end gap, i like to see about 1/32 on the gap, anything larger than this, tells me it will smoke ?, or not enough compression ?.

The most important reason that a piston/ring to cylinder measurement is a small as possible is to eliminate piston slap. Cylinder, piston and ring wear wear at a exponential rate as slap increases. E = MC squared.

5 hours ago, shadetree said:

i should have been alittle more clearer, i measure the top, middle, and bottom with rings. most times i end up boring the cylinder just to play if safe. once in a while, i can hone, new rings, run it, but not very much.

Ok. I get it now. I thought it was cylinder wear measurements. I feel better for you now. That's not bad if measuring ring gap. Ring gap is about a 3 or 4 multipler ratio to cylinder measurents.

4 hours ago, _Wilson_™ said:

Old yeller..... Now I'm caught up. 

 

Didn't ole yelled die in the end? 

2 hours ago, shadetree said:

in my 30 yrs of doing this work, i've never used a bore tool. i take the rings, slide them one by one down into the cylinder, then hold it up to a light, if the cylinder or rings are bad ?, light will show through the rings. with the naked eye, you can tell if the rings are bad. most times i'll use my caliber's to measure the bore at the top of the cylinder, if its out there ?, then i have it bored.

You should measure in the middle of the stroke where it is worn the most. It can be 5 to 7 thousandths difference in ring gap measurements between the top and middle.....I've seen more but not usually. 

1 hour ago, Fishfiles said:

 

Ironic you brought up Yellowstone , seen  a video just an hour ago  , Costner is dropping out of Yellowstone and the remaining  episodes of this season have been canceled ,  Matthew McConaughey   is taking his place , Costner is going to work on his own western  movie , that he is starring in and directing , think it is called Horizon , Yellowstone was my favorite show 

Are you sure? I've heard contrary stories. I hope.not.......he plays a good character. We anxiously await the Sunday night release of 1923. It's almost as good.

10 minutes ago, shadetree said:

well, it seems yu'll be waiting a tad longer ?..got issues with the one-way clutch bearing and light/kill switch, got those ordered as of now.

Just like a series "cliff hanger"

7 minutes ago, Fishfiles said:

I agree , I would never re-ring an engine , not only is there  egg shaping of the hole to worry about , but then tempering of the steel from heat ,  second time around may be not too good , puts a glaze on the steel and new rings might not seat right , not worth the chance of all that work and it smokes or not be 100% , or not last as long as it could have --- G+H usually gets back to you in 7-10 days 

Yes, just because it doesn't smoke doesn't mean all is good because we all know there is quite a bit of wear and taper that drastically reduces the longevity of the build. 

I just spend a long time getting caught up on this build. I always like Shade's builds. Can't wait for the pics. It's kinda like ordering the whole Yellowstone series and watching it all at the same time! LOL

I've never used a bore gauge but from what i have seen,  it is subjective. Finding the perfect halfway point seems to be difficult at first until you get the feel for it. The top measurement is extremely important for me because that is the factory bore with no wear. I am like you......when in doubt just bore it.. Just a few more bucks and the waiting time....ugh

24 minutes ago, PROV said:

If you dress properly you would be surprised how much cold you can take. We rode snowmobiles 28 miles to my friends cabin in -24 to go fishing a few years ago. Just can't have exposed skin. When I was in high school and they closed because it was too cold we went downhill skiing. Slept in the back of my truck out on a lake in -30 a couple times fishing. I'm kinda over that now though.😄

Me and the wife went snow skiing in Crested Butte one morning when the temps. were 30 below. Wind chills 70 below. We bought extra gear and went skiing. I almost got frost bite in my fingers.