How long to tear down and rebuild?

[Scott400EX]

Me and friend are going to ear down our 400ex's this winter and paint the frames and what not. How much time would it take to strip the bike to the frame, paint it, and put it all back together again?

round figures

[Pappy]

5 days

[phatswinn]

well i did my plastic one in bout an hour

[Extremeracer167]

HAHA. Im thinkin about......15-20 minutes to get it down to the bare frame, its nothing major at all!!:rolleyes:

[danney f]

If your going through all the trouble to tear it down, why not powder coat the frame? Just wondering.

[Pappy]

Originally posted by Extremeracer167
HAHA. Im thinkin about......15-20 minutes to get it down to the bare frame, its nothing major at all!!:rolleyes:


PUT THE TORCH AWAY:D

i said 5 days .....

day 1 tear it down
day 2 prep all paintable parts
day 3 prime and paint
day 4 paint and begin reassembly
day 5 finish assembly

[ChadEXer]

It took me about 3/4 of a day to tear the quad completely down,,,,it took ALL day to put it back together,,,so 2 days on the tearing down and reassembling, the rest is just according to how long it takes you to prepare and paint!! But I do agree that thats a lot of work and if your going to do it you should go ahead and get it powder coated!!

[DGR Designs]

5 days? geez it would take me a month. (i'm lazy.)

[danney f]

Be sure and use ziplock bags and label them. Save a lot of headach in the end.

Me and a buddy dissasimbled a suzuki frame and installed a Handa motor in it, all in 1 day. We rode it the naxt day.

[mysticfalcon]

id say about 3 hours to strip it to the frame and probly 3.5 to put it back together because even with the ziplock bags you'll misplace something. i always do

Originally posted by Extremeracer167
HAHA. Im thinkin about......15-20 minutes to get it down to the bare frame, its nothing major at all!!:rolleyes:


He ask how long it takes to get the crack pipe out and get it goin??

If you can tear your's down in 20 minutes,,by all means come to my house and do mine,,I'll give ya $50 a minute ta see you in action.

[Scott400EX]

Thats not as bad as i figured. Im gonn paint it instead of powdercoating cuz i tont feel like shelling out the dough to do it right now maybe next winter or the one after. Im gonna do 2 coats of primer, 5 coats Orange or red ( havent decided ), and 2 or 3 coats of clear coat. And Silver maier race plastic is going on top of it!!!

[QuadTrix6]

sounds good be sure to post some pics when your all done :cool:

[Sick0]

I didn't even tear down my quad when I painted my.
You can still see the paint that spill on the tire.

[josh]

all i gots to say is how great of a mechanic are/do you think you are. time all depends on staying on task, knowing what your doing, and familiarity with something like that, lol......the first time i pulled my motor and took it apart i think it took me and intire 12 hours. this time i was very familiar with everything and knew exactly were everything goes and what to do and it took me an hour and a half, so all i gots to say is BUY A MANUAL!!!!!!!! so u know how everything goes back together, cuz if u let it sit for a few days to paint it u will have a really hard time remembering were everything goes so make sure u get a MANUAL and a TORQUE WRENCH if u don't already have those 2 much needed items

jus my 2 cents

[Scott400EX]

have a manual and a trq wrench and have redone the top end of my 400 myself. so im pretty qualified and i have a friend helpin that has done it before

[RED121572]

I tore mine down and rebuilt it last month. Everything came off the frame except the crankcase. Unfortuantly, I have only can work on it/ride it on fridays. It took me five weeks to complete. Heres a pic I took when I tore mine down last year. (i do it every year)

[danney f]

Man, I wish I had that kind of room in my garage(sp). I work on mine in a 16'x16' room and thats with a work bench, shelves, atc70 and a toren down lt230s and a couple vw motors.

[RED121572]

Mine is a 10X20. It works pretty well.