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welcome to ATVH, you might also start a repair thread on the bike. congrats on the purchase.

welcome to ATVH. be sure post us some pics when start you mods thread.

well sounds to me if you friended them, you were almost going to buy into it, i never would have text them to start with, that's just me lol!! I'm done with this, do what you wish. :-)

i wouldn't sweat it, we've all made mistakes, but with your skill i think you could do this job just fine. thats a hard question to answer, could there have been some come down from the push rods, or some off the cam shaft end ? no telling. good idea ^^^ no, they dont, but they should, but i have a dimple magnetic plug in mine, they work great! this bike also has an oil cooler correct ?

it was about a semi truck with a 48 foot van, but not about hauling peaches, best i recall, it involed hauling toilet paper to New York, and beer to kententky .... i have all the post saved, so it may take me some time to find it.

id say with you had described the engine ran for quiet a while, allowing for the rod to mushroom on the exhaust side, then you talk extra pressure on the cam shaft, and what hidden damage on the intake side ?? not worth taking a chance, IMO, i believe fish is right, new engine, or dig in and rebuild this one, you won't be able to tell what metal broke loose from the push rods, or how much damage was done to the cam shaft, and being the filter was in backwards, ( not filtering ) and what bits of metal are still in the crank case could end up up destroying the oil pump.

yeah, fish i think your right whats the day, the 6th ? at least was mentioned in chat T this pont the weather is last thing on my mind.

the light moved in again over night, started around mid night, or just after, temps started at 35, and have steadily climbed all morning to 63, sure did put a damper on New Years, i would imagine the mud park south of me with be busy with all this rain, and warm temps, last year it was much colder... but the hoards still showed up, nothing like a die hard atv off road rider.

yeah that's an old school kick stand, lol! 10 ton, i bet ? does that look like small od flex exhaust pipe used to extend the exhaust ?

thanks the mod will sure be interesting to see, again over here, sure to get some attention from those wanting some really great headlights!

check out the feul tank on this one. pretty slick to make it part of the frame.

oh man.... it's too early in the am for a picture like that, lol .....and yes sir! i would have avoided that mistake too!

now that sounds like a wild place! one bathroom for both, no door, did it have stalls ?? bet it wasn't close to being as bad as that fast food bathroom ....

that's one out there forsure, very interesting, but out there...

that's rough, such a nice looking low mile machine with all the money, time and mods, take it by the your other post you ran this for quiet a while with the oil filter in wrong ? you've already got some skill, and these guys are great at helping on just about about any honda issue, so a rebuild might be the way i would go, depending on cost, compaired to a rebuilt engine, just depends on which choice, but the last thing i would do is buy a new one, the quality of the new bikes don't hold a candle to the older machines.

holding a shovel, and chooses to to use his leg ??

couple defrent ways, but wrenches--- a dog bone wrench would work good, just jam the nuts up line the corners up and slip the wrench over both, another way would be jam them fairly tight, and use the inner nut to back them both out / break the stud loose, then once the adjustment screw breaks loose take two wrenches one on the main nut one one the jam , break those loose, then your set. I've used this deal many times, and it works good.

thanks jeep, great to start the new year off, i just hope they will join.

glad your satisfied with the ending as far as the money goes, best ending, but i was sure thinking you would come up on that missing bike. (rare as it is) at least i was thinking so, as for insurance companies, they pretty much = crooks .. along with those who are employeis = desk Jockeys. some would happy with the money, but it can't replace the owners feelings or sentimental value of the missing item.

as fish said, how many long was it run like this ? ( if the filter is in backwards ) i would say no, you know the top end took a hit, so i would check the oil, but my thinking is it's going to have metal in the oil which would do damage to to the bottom end.

oil filter in backwards is what I'm thinking, pull the filter cap, and check.

well fish, you nailed it. when was the last oil change ? if you away to take /post pics, or videos that would come in very handy. Edit: fish beat me to it.

reminds me, of teds idea for a semi truck load, i bet some went that far this time, lol..... the mud park down south of me always has super big ride over the New Years weekend, im already hearing cb traffic from people on the way there, and with all the rain that came down its sure to be a mud feat this year.

speeks volumes, eh ?

good deal, i was very impressed with the results on that rancher light mod. and all the electrical works added looked very professional, i looked around for the thread but then recalled it was in the old forums.