i think the blasty just likes it when i work on her....

[brandoz28]

well if anyone's been following the build, here's my blaster horror story....bought it in boxes and here's what i found

a arm bushings=shot
crankshaft=missing
2 clutch baskets=both grooved to hell
swingarm bearings=trash
carrier bearings=garbage
sprockets=guess what...JUNK
stock carb=the threads at the top aren't good enough to get a cap tight on it....don't figure this out till i spend 40 bucks on a float and a rebuild
crank bearings=shot
reeds=JUNK
all the cables that came with it.....garbage
chain adjusters.....you guessed it FUBAR

now go to assembly.....
-pull out every head stud when i torque them...not at the same time mind you....it took me 6 times at it to find out they're all junk and fixed them one at a time
-get the motor in the chassis and go to put the pipe on...the bolt holes for the pipe are completely stripped, one has already been helicoiled and it failed to...
-pull motor from chassis fix it, put it back in....
-1st heat cycle, find out that kill switch doesn't work....strip wiring harness and eliminate several things and fix some sh*t.
-2nd heat cycle, starts, the idle takes off to the moon. this is when i found my carb cap problem
-get a 36mm carb by mistake, go ahead and throw it on anyway to try it out. everything seems good with the blasty now...its all down hill from here right......................

now finally i get to ride it right? nooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
-starts 2nd kick, no choke, AWESOME
-pull in the clutch, pop it into gear, thing jumps and dies.....great
-find out that somethings not right, the clutch boss won't turn inside the clutch basket
-fix problem, go out and get the top end broken in

-go out to ride a bit....strange 1st gear is gone.....pretty soon only gear i have is 3rd

i've actually ridden this thing for about 10-15 minutes (not including putting around for break in) and spent 5 months spending stupid amounts of money and working ridiculous hours on it. now i get to split the cases and figure out what shelled in the trans!I:I

 

['blanshee'man]

/end_rant

thats sh*tty bro but you are dedicated!
lol feel better?

 

[blasters/banshees]

sounds like a good experiance with a blaster.........my freind had a simular problem with his mine was flawless for 1 year until I sold it, it sucks that u did all that work and it still not right

 

[brandoz28]

i do feel slightly better....doesn't change that i still gotta pull the motor and split the cases though. and yeah, at this point i've got so much time/money involved that i can't quit. its like a competition now and i'm not gonna let this damn machine win haha.

 

[Blasterdude27]

Sounds like my old mojave... It now sits as a pile of parts in a box...

 

[blasters/banshees]

Sounds like my old mojave... It now sits as a pile of parts in a box...

you should fix that thing mojaves are fun quads

 

[Blasterdude27]

you should fix that thing mojaves are fun quads

Oh I have plans for it....

 

[brandoz28]

well i'm just gonna do some little stuff over the next couple weeks i think. rebuild the shocks, split the cases and see what's up in there. i'll probably clean up the cases a bit too, they look a little nasty, and repaint something that i did in a little too much of a hurry

 

[Blasterdude27]

Just do what you can, don't rush it and if you feel like your at a dead end take a brake until your ready to work on it again.

It sounds like the shift fork may be bent...

 

[brandoz28]

thats what i'm thinking too. only one way to find out and that's to split the cases! lol

 

[Caterpillarmech]

Good work so far. I feel better about my build. The only problem i've had is I can't get a bearing out og the l/f hub. Keep going and you'll get it right eventualy.

 

[iadubber]

Sounds similar to my story. Bought a beat to sh*t blasty, started rebuilding it this past winter and seems everything I replaced, something else was bad or broken in that process. Sucks, but at least we know what's in our quads. Good luck!!

 

[brandoz28]

yeah.....i think i've replacled everything that can wear out so far...spent so much money on it so far fixing sh*t wrong with it that i could've had a ported big bore and a stroker by now....lol

 

[blasterfreek30]

well at least with all this new work ur doing u will have almost all new blasty by the time ur done lol....way to stay cool bro lol....i wouldve flipped my lid by now lol

 

[brandoz28]

yeah.....plan has changed slightly i put it in the naughty shed where we put all the sh*t that won't start/run correctly lol. gonna wait to pull it apart, it'll be a lot better to pull it apart in a week or two when i've cooled off a little bit. this thing has been nothing but 5 months of broken sh*t, sh*t thats just not right, and missing pieces. the few minutes that i got to ride it before the trans sh*t out on me was great, the power is better than i expected. i'm not ready to give up on the blasty yet.....but sh*t even my mom said i should've taken out a loan to by that new raptor 700 i wanted in the first place lol


and to add insult to injury getting it back to the house trying to get it going from a dead stop in 3rd smoked the clutch. so i'll be getting a clutch for it soon too

 

[yzrider]

Oh I have plans for it....

i'm think a 2 stroke motor???? also, sorry to hear bout the crap u have to go thru man, sounds like u have more patience them me.