my buddy scotty, who we built the black and white blaster for late last summer, decided he wanted to use some of his income tax to get another blaster for his son, after searching CL and a few other local sites, i finally decided to go give this one a look, his brother and i drove 2 hours north to have a peek, guy says it lost power one day, he pulled the head and said the piston did not have a hole in it, apparently thats all the troubleshooting he did ?????
he wanted $675, basically all stock except full FMF pipe, 4 good maxxis razr's, good plastics, unbent frame, DG front bumper and rear wide grab bar. good chain and bearings all seem good, it needs swinger roller and the 2 smaller rollers, all of which i have extras of.
when he described in person what happened, i said "ooohhhhh that sounds like it broke the piston skirt off, thats gonna cost me about $200+ to fix"
i offered him $450, he countered with $475, LOL
i stuck out my hand to shake and said "DEAL" !!!!!
pic from the ad............
here it is on the ride home and as we did some basic troubleshooting, we annealed the head gasket to re-torque it back down, also noticed the lever inside the throttle had worked loose and was probably hitting that tors button in there ???, tightened that and ditched the whole tors. checked the main jet...a 250 for an fmf pipe and uni filter ?????
switched that to the only other bigger one i had...a 290 for now.
remember broken piston skirt suggestion got me $200 knocked off,
wonder why it wouldnt run ??? LOL.................
i replaced them with a half set of dual stage reeds i had layin in the garage, replaced the fuel with some 32:1 amsoil i had mixed.
it fired right up on the second kick, and revs clean, clutch felt good and all 6 gears work, but it won't idle, guess i shoulda cleaned the carb while i was in there, duh !!!!!
to be continued ..........
he wanted $675, basically all stock except full FMF pipe, 4 good maxxis razr's, good plastics, unbent frame, DG front bumper and rear wide grab bar. good chain and bearings all seem good, it needs swinger roller and the 2 smaller rollers, all of which i have extras of.
when he described in person what happened, i said "ooohhhhh that sounds like it broke the piston skirt off, thats gonna cost me about $200+ to fix"
i offered him $450, he countered with $475, LOL
i stuck out my hand to shake and said "DEAL" !!!!!
pic from the ad............
here it is on the ride home and as we did some basic troubleshooting, we annealed the head gasket to re-torque it back down, also noticed the lever inside the throttle had worked loose and was probably hitting that tors button in there ???, tightened that and ditched the whole tors. checked the main jet...a 250 for an fmf pipe and uni filter ?????
switched that to the only other bigger one i had...a 290 for now.
remember broken piston skirt suggestion got me $200 knocked off,
wonder why it wouldnt run ??? LOL.................
i replaced them with a half set of dual stage reeds i had layin in the garage, replaced the fuel with some 32:1 amsoil i had mixed.
it fired right up on the second kick, and revs clean, clutch felt good and all 6 gears work, but it won't idle, guess i shoulda cleaned the carb while i was in there, duh !!!!!
to be continued ..........
