greenshee14 Posted January 22, 2010 Report Share Posted January 22, 2010 Im rebuilding my top end what other good maintence things can i do for good measure? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Burt Reynolds Posted January 22, 2010 Report Share Posted January 22, 2010 Well theres about 25million things you can go but i would just check all the rod and crank bearings. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greenshee14 Posted January 22, 2010 Author Report Share Posted January 22, 2010 [im keeping it stock lol, i heard you should replace the reeds and stuff Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greenshee14 Posted January 22, 2010 Author Report Share Posted January 22, 2010 how do i know if the bearings or crank is bad Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LiftdT4R Posted January 22, 2010 Report Share Posted January 22, 2010 You may want to buy a Clymer's if you don;t already have one. Without tearing the cases apart you can make sure the crank isn;'t bad by checking the play in the rods. You should have a little side to side play, but no up and down play. It would also be a good time to replace the reed petals if they look bad, change the oil and coolant, and make sure you install all new gaskets. You could clean the carbs while its apart too, just don't mix up the parts as each carbs has some parts that are unqiue to it in there. Also, if you don't have a billet impeller now would be a good time to do one of those too. If the bike was running decent before you pulled it apart you might not want to go messing around with a lot of stuff before you put it back together. The more things you vhange at the same time the more chance of error there will be and it makes it hard to track down problems. If you change one thing ata time it is much easier to see where you went wrong. Just my experience when I was starting out messing around with my bike. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greenshee14 Posted January 22, 2010 Author Report Share Posted January 22, 2010 [cool thanks and i do have clymers lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
midlifecrisis Posted January 23, 2010 Report Share Posted January 23, 2010 [cool thanks and i do have clymers lol Im chiming in here as well, as I am about to start on a rebuild of the top end of an 01 I just bought. How in depth does the Clymers manual go? Will it be based on a complete tear down and rebuild? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greenshee14 Posted January 25, 2010 Author Report Share Posted January 25, 2010 [Yea a clymers has R&R of about everything on your bike including wiring diagrams and other useful information Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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