underpowered
10-31-2006, 09:09 AM
well i went to go ridn last weekend. got the quad out and jsut had a bad feeling in my gut, that something was gonna go wrong. well i went to start my bike, cranked over and it fired adn died, as usual with a cold start. cranked it again and all the sudden it lost all compression, my only guess was a stuck valve. well i finally got the chance to tear into it today, and that stuck valve may have saved me from much more costly repairs.
as i pulled the vavle cover off, the dowel at the end of the cam shaft had came out and the bearing on the camchain side of the cam was barely on the cam itself. if i had not stuck the valve and rode that weekend, most likely the bearing would have came off, resulting in much more disasterous consequences. so now i am only out the cost of two new valves (gonna replace one, might as well replace both) and gasket, when things could have been much worse, so i am kinda glad this happened, saved me some money in the long run.
as i pulled the vavle cover off, the dowel at the end of the cam shaft had came out and the bearing on the camchain side of the cam was barely on the cam itself. if i had not stuck the valve and rode that weekend, most likely the bearing would have came off, resulting in much more disasterous consequences. so now i am only out the cost of two new valves (gonna replace one, might as well replace both) and gasket, when things could have been much worse, so i am kinda glad this happened, saved me some money in the long run.