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Seems to good to be true. 94 bucks?

Fish, is the Taiwan stuff any good? I wouldn't know where to start looking for used oem. I plan on just ordering the crank, it's listed at $239 on Mr Crankshafts site, then I'll need a jug and piston. I've been watching craigslist for local parts, no Honda foremans for sale. Thanks for all the advice guys. 

Thanks for the information guys, I'm going to have the engine out in a week or so.  I'll post more pictures then, it destroyed the piston, jug and rod so far. Chinese junk. I would post more but I have almost no Internet service at home. I have to wait until I'm in town. 

On 6/2/2023 at 12:46 PM, jeepwm69 said:

 

I take my cranks and send them to Vince at Mr Crankshaft.  Rod kit (Vesrah, made in Japan) is usually $100ish give or take, and he charges about $135-140 to install, true, and get the crank back to you.

 

You'll need to split the crankcase on that engine to get all of the crap out of the bottom end anyway, so you can split, clean, knock the crank out and have it rebuilt, and then put back together.  Then you KNOW the bottom end is good.

 

If you're looking at this on ebay, that's an OEM cylinder with an aftermarket Taiwan piston/ rings etc.  https://www.ebay.ca/itm/132226128043

 

If you're going that direction, I'd find a used OEM cylinder, send to G&H ATV, have them bore it.  They do good work.  Not sure about some of these other companies selling on ebay.

 

This is what you'll be into when you split the cases.  Looks intimidating, but once you do it a time or two it's not bad.

 

 

So she is not a total loss as far as the engine goes? That's what I was worrying about. Thank you.

On 6/3/2023 at 7:03 AM, JRB said:

Personally,  I would do a couple rebuild.  I only did rist pin up. Running prefix.  Mine had Low mileage.  + A complete wire harness  exchange.  ( hacked) . 1998 450es  now runs like New! 

I didn't think I had any other choice! 

I found an OEM top end on the net for $450, anyone know where to find a crank and a rod. I remember chatting about it here back when I first started posting about the thing blowing up. I did get an answer to my question on niche parts though! Thanks Fish.

It has a quarter inch of play in the connecting rod. Is this worth saving? Is the crank case separate from the transmission? All that Chinese aluminum went somewhere. Thanks guys.

But the rings look almost new.

Yep, carbon build up on the top of the piston, wait a minute... 

Found the problem.

$83! Dang! I'll stick with the one Fish have me!

I haven't done anything yet except to push it into the free stall! My wife is going to staples or somewhere to print out the service manual in a high quality and spiral bound format. Right now it is still flintlock season in Pa and I have 1 more tag to fill. Once I read the service manual a couple times, I'll yank the engine and see what I have to work with. Something inside let go as she is seized.

JRB, mine was running loud also. No smoke. I haven't had the time to tear it down yet. I'm happy to hear that your build came out well.

64 in Pennsylvania.

Well, like my Chevy's, I want this to be and upgrade also. How many more CC's can I get with an overbore? I like the idea of more compression, I only run E90 anyways. Better cams? I'm looking for bulletproof power, not racing power. More cubes is always good. More squish, even better. The darn thing never ran right since I got it. The kid who did the "rebuild" was an accountant. I hope he is a better accountant than he is a mechanic. That is why he used the cheapest stuff he could find on eBay. I probably won't get to tear it down until after Christmas but I want to get a plan in process. Thanks again for the ideas. 

I'm not sure what broke, it was sitting at idle warming up to go get my deer and it made a loud crack and stopped immediately. The previous owner had replaced the top end with ebay stuff ( probably chinese) so the stock jug is long gone. It always had valve noise, I'm just hoping not to put a mint into this thing. I only have about $1500 in it and the rest is in reasonable shape. I really won't know until I tear it down. Thanks for the reply and the references. 

Good morning, well the engine locked up on my Foreman. So I am looking for parts. I noticed a brand on eBay called Niche. Anybody use any of their parts? Anyone have any brand they recommend? Thanks in advance!

What a fine group of people on this site. I wasn't a honda fan when I bought my Foreman, I bought it because it was cheap and honda has a decent reputation. But the Honda community is unreal. Hey Fish, I hope you are doing well. 

Welcome to the forum Matt. 

Welcome to the forum, lots of good people and good information to be found here.

Be careful FF, stay positive.

19 hours ago, toodeep said:

Arctic cat brake pads are the ones used on them so replacements are easy to find in various versions. 

That's good to know. Thanks.

Welcome, this place is a wealth of information and good people.

11 hours ago, toodeep said:

I've put them on various machines over the years. I've never had an issue with them.

I did some digging on them and they seem to offer replacement pads which is good. Thanks