400thacker
03-08-2008, 04:32 PM
well i rebuilt my quad and have rode it for about 4 hours or so and i was about 1 mile from my house and it lost power and made a nasty metal on metal sound in my engine. i stopped at by friends house who was riding with me and let it cool off real good and it started right back up and ran fine for about 5 minutes. i started riding back home 1/2 mile away and it done the same thing again.
i know you are supposed to re adjust your valves after a few hours on a fresh rebuild but is that whats really causing my problem? it ran great the whole ride.
I thought that maybe the oil pump went bad but i have a bad gasket on my timing chain tentsioner and it is still leaking pretty good so i think it's getting oil. i just don't understand how it can make that sound and lose poswer and die then cool off ans start back up run for 5 minutes and do it again.
ANY IDEAS ARE GREATLY APPRECIATED!
thanks a million,
Dan
i know you are supposed to re adjust your valves after a few hours on a fresh rebuild but is that whats really causing my problem? it ran great the whole ride.
I thought that maybe the oil pump went bad but i have a bad gasket on my timing chain tentsioner and it is still leaking pretty good so i think it's getting oil. i just don't understand how it can make that sound and lose poswer and die then cool off ans start back up run for 5 minutes and do it again.
ANY IDEAS ARE GREATLY APPRECIATED!
thanks a million,
Dan