krusher
09-22-2009, 04:57 PM
I tryed out another forum, but didnt really get any help, so here I am.
I have just got a 07 trx450er. When I picked it up it ran, but you had to roll start it, so I called the dealer and a couple race shops, and everyone seemed to agree that it just needed the valves shimmed, so I bought it, brought it home, rode it for about 5 minutes, and took it to one of the race shops that I had spoke with the next morning.
Here's where it gets interesting...
the day after I took it down there, he called and said that my valves were on there last shim job, and that my timing chain had stretched and that it needed to be replaced, SO I told him to go ahead and replace it. A couple days later he calls me back and says that I need to replace my crankshaft, and my camshaft, and that it was gonna cost me about 1400.00. He said that even with the new timing chain that it was still to loose and that replacing the crank and cam was the only way to get it back to tight..
I told him to put it back together and I was coming to get it. Once I got it here I fumed a litle bit, and got to thinking, and looking at diagrams on my motor, and saw that there was a sprocket that bolted onto the cam , and started wondering if that could be all that I need to replace, so I called back the honda dealer, and was told that anytime you replace the timing chain, you should replace the cam sprocket, and the chain guide, as well and the plastic part of the tensioner mechanism that the plunger presses into the chain. And the total for the parts for that job equal 117.00. Sounds like its worth a try to avoid 1400.00.
one thing that I forgot to mention, is that the owner of the race shop told me that that type of four wheeler was not what I needed, and that he would buy it for 2800.00.
So I'm thinkin that he might like my quad more than I do and is willing to lie to get me to sell it to him.
does it sound like I might be onto the right fix for it? He said it would run, but that I shouldnt with the timing chain like it is.
I have just got a 07 trx450er. When I picked it up it ran, but you had to roll start it, so I called the dealer and a couple race shops, and everyone seemed to agree that it just needed the valves shimmed, so I bought it, brought it home, rode it for about 5 minutes, and took it to one of the race shops that I had spoke with the next morning.
Here's where it gets interesting...
the day after I took it down there, he called and said that my valves were on there last shim job, and that my timing chain had stretched and that it needed to be replaced, SO I told him to go ahead and replace it. A couple days later he calls me back and says that I need to replace my crankshaft, and my camshaft, and that it was gonna cost me about 1400.00. He said that even with the new timing chain that it was still to loose and that replacing the crank and cam was the only way to get it back to tight..
I told him to put it back together and I was coming to get it. Once I got it here I fumed a litle bit, and got to thinking, and looking at diagrams on my motor, and saw that there was a sprocket that bolted onto the cam , and started wondering if that could be all that I need to replace, so I called back the honda dealer, and was told that anytime you replace the timing chain, you should replace the cam sprocket, and the chain guide, as well and the plastic part of the tensioner mechanism that the plunger presses into the chain. And the total for the parts for that job equal 117.00. Sounds like its worth a try to avoid 1400.00.
one thing that I forgot to mention, is that the owner of the race shop told me that that type of four wheeler was not what I needed, and that he would buy it for 2800.00.
So I'm thinkin that he might like my quad more than I do and is willing to lie to get me to sell it to him.
does it sound like I might be onto the right fix for it? He said it would run, but that I shouldnt with the timing chain like it is.