best way to get metal outta a motor....

muchado · May 15, 2009

metal shavings... in motor.... head pulled... advice??? I'm talkin a shitload of shavings...

that's just puttin A finger on it... there was a bunch more that came out.... :gtfo:

techtafab · May 15, 2009

disassemble and hot tank

Toddy · May 15, 2009

Buy new motor. If it has that much metal can be good.

Toddy

techtafab · May 15, 2009

whats this out of Rob ?
one of your ATV/DIRT bikes or a car/truck ?
looks to me a two stroke came apart

muchado · May 15, 2009

Yep---that is out of my quad... it's a Honda TRX 450R.. When I was putting the hot cam in it, I did not clean the cam gear bolts thoroughly prior to putting lock-tite on them... they backed out during break-in and carved a circle in my valve cover(aluminum) then broke, cam gear/ timing chain fell off and locked the motor up. Luckily I was in between shifts when this happened----otherwise I think the damage could have been catastrophic. I have the motor pulled apart and I will be spending tonight putting it back together. There was tons of fine fine fine metal shavings in the bottom end. I brake cleaned the ever living **** out of it so I think everything should be fine. I'm going to do a couple oil/filter changes prior to our next dune trip memorial wkend.

Bones · May 15, 2009

CLEAN the **** out of it and IMO have it tanked. It would be in the back of my head each time I hit the start button on that hooker

muchado · May 15, 2009

Bones said:
CLEAN the **** out of it and IMO have it tanked. It would be in the back of my head each time I KICK STARTED that hooker

fixxed it for ya.

and yea that would be the best way obviously... but I'm not gonna do that. Maybe eventually will have to tear down that far but i have time limitations... less than a week till our Mem. day dune trip.. leavin thurs nite.

draggbody · May 15, 2009

i know this has been covered... all i have to add is i told you so.... :flipoff1:

draggbody said:
all's you got to do is... see, that motto gets you in trouble... my method for ALL of my bolts are to blow dry the hole, clean them w/ brake cleaner, run a thread chaser in the hole, cleans all of the old loctite out, brake clean again, air dry, clean the bolts w/ a wire wheel on the grinder, clean them w/ brake cleaner and air dry, then pour on the RED loctite.... make sure you use non chlorinated brake cleaner, its the flammable stuff....