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You can see here my son already knows we have our work cut out for us. This is not my first rebuild, but it is my first Banshee. Anything you notice that is of notable concern or noticable? I'm planning on riding'er till we hit triple digit temps here in the AZ. Then me and my son wil take it down and makie it a stone cold sleeper! Anyone have stuff that you see I need for sale? It's a 99'. Only thing I really know about it it besides it runs good is that it has a .25 over bore on it and it needs alot of TLC.

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Just take it slow and look in the for sale section. Over 3 years I have slowly built my shee off this site for a fraction of what it would of really cost. The oinly thing on my shee that I bought new was the tires. You have come to the right place . There is endless knowledge here and great friends to be made.

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You can see here my son already knows we have our work cut out for us. This is not my first rebuild, but it is my first Banshee. Anything you notice that is of notable concern or noticable? I'm planning on riding'er till we hit triple digit temps here in the AZ. Then me and my son wil take it down and makie it a stone cold sleeper! Anyone have stuff that you see I need for sale? It's a 99'. Only thing I really know about it it besides it runs good is that it has a .25 over bore on it and it needs alot of TLC.

 

I can't figure out to put pictures on here. Anyway here is a link

 

 

http://photobucket.com/lambchopbanshee

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It's a harry potter banshee, must have forgot to take the invisible cloak off before the pic.

 

 

nerd^^ :whistling: haha j/p

 

 

do what MarineNYC said and take your time and keep ur eyes on the forsale/trade threads. do some research and figure out what works for you and your riding style and ask lots of questions ( be sure to use the search tool first!), there are lots of knowledgeable people on here and if you have a question i can guarantee someone knows the answer. lastly, congrats on the buy! and welcome to the addiction! :evil:

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It looks a little rough but a little TLC can fix that up real fast. Within a weekend you can have that thing lookin mint. Look in the for sale sections for aftermarket parts and build from there. You have no idea of the potential of the quad. You will be amazed. Good Luck and if you need any help dont be afraid to ask any of us.

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It looks a little rough but a little TLC can fix that up real fast. Within a weekend you can have that thing lookin mint. Look in the for sale sections for aftermarket parts and build from there. You have no idea of the potential of the quad. You will be amazed. Good Luck and if you need any help dont be afraid to ask any of us.

 

Thanks for the reply, I lust went through all the fluids. My next priorty is ditching the boost bottle and TORS. Then lighten the flywheel and advance timing. When I do the full rebuild on it I will get to the bigger items. Nice Banshee by the way Marine!!

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nice bike! looks good! all you need is to clean it up really and ditch the TORS. use some brillo and some polish and itll look a lot better than.

 

One thing I'm really interested in knowing more about these bikes is suspension setup. Everything I read says that these suspensions are pretty weak. Well, I'm a pretty big guy (230lbs) and the suspension on this really bottoms with me on it. On my bikes I could just put heavier springs on it and a racetech valving, and viola a race ready setup!! My plan is to make this a full blown sleeper. I"m not into bling (as sweet as it looks), but I love pulling up to those boys and having a stock looking setup whoop'em. I will probably ride mostly dersrt trails and dune, but I don't want to be limited to that with my suspension. What I'm getting at is, can you modify stock shocks to perform like the aftermarket ones, or close?

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for suspension, if your mainly doing trails and there not that tight you can go with some elkas, works duals or tripple rate shocks set-up to how you want them. or if your tight on money you can get some yfz 450 shocks and mod them to fit your shee. also you should get some 2+1 a-arms like wicked, fireball, etc. then you can send your rear shock out to get rebuilt by companies like pro pilot, tcs, works etc. thats set-up to your weight riding style. those mods alone will make it feel like a whole different bike and is definetly worth looking into. but if you dont have the money right this second for some shocks and you keep bottoming with the stockers, you can adjust the preload on the stock ones and make them stiffer so they bottom out less. hope that helped

-kevin

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