4psnu Posted June 2, 2013 Report Share Posted June 2, 2013 7 pages?!?!? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#1JUANstunna Posted June 2, 2013 Report Share Posted June 2, 2013 7 pages?!?!? Of wasted server space. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
turbowrenchhead Posted June 3, 2013 Author Report Share Posted June 3, 2013 I'm gone for a weekend and this thread has turned vicious. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WINDYCITYJOHN400 Posted June 3, 2013 Report Share Posted June 3, 2013 How was your weekend trip? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
n2otoofast4u Posted June 3, 2013 Report Share Posted June 3, 2013 I'm gone for a weekend and this thread has turned vicious. Where did you go? Any drunken titty pictures to share? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
turbowrenchhead Posted June 3, 2013 Author Report Share Posted June 3, 2013 The trip was great. No women to slow us down. We are slow enough with all the break downs and issues we have. We had 6 guys in our group. The first morning we rode into Florence for breakfast and fuel. Right off the bat there are no brakes on the raptor 350 that we are borrowing from a friend. The front metal line end flare was snapped right off. Weird! We happen be close to a ford dealership and a auto parts store. I went to school with the lead mechanic at the dealership so we go it handled. Rode back to gear up for riding and the blaster started acting up. I pulled the plug and it was really grey. I found the carb boot clamp too loose. I changed the plug and tightened everything down but the damage was already done. It ran for another hour and then we had to tow it back. Pulled the cylinder on the blaster, rings caught on the exhaust port. Piston is shot. Riding was done for that day. Sunday we gear up and go in for gas by the state border in spread eagle. We head down a trail that I've never been on and come to a huge sand pit. I found a good sized jump and ran it and landed it. Our inexperience friend riding the raptor 350 hit it way to hard and came down on the left rear tire. Bent the axle, rear swing and cracked the rear fender. We towed him and went back out. We rode over 2 hours to Dunbar. Met up with another friend and rode 40 mies to Athelstane. On our way back it started raining and it was getting late. The temp dropped to 43 degrees and all of were soaked. We got back to dunbar 10:30 at night. We left our machines there and got a ride back to our campsite. I had a few issues with my banshee. After I filled up with 87 octane in Dunbar it started having what seemed like a lean rpm run away. I had to kill it once because the rpm's were getting to high. I had to slide my thumb off the throttle to get it to return to normal idle. I I pulled my carb slides and cleaned them off and coated a little motor oil on them to make sure they were not sticking. I checked all my clamps. My exhaust hoses between the front and muff didn't hold up well. They started tearing. I had to put just a hose clamp on the joint on the RH side. The LH side still had enough material to cover up the joint. After I filled up with 93 octane it seemed better and I could just release the throttle instead of snapping it back. But it started doing it again. So its not the fuel. I has to be a leak in a dome o ring or base gasket because Saturday after our morning fill up. I thought that I better check the radiator. Good thing I did because it was extremely low. I poured in 2 water bottles and then water from my back pack bladder. I checked it a couple more times and it was right to the top. I checked it again in Athelstane and it was low again but not near as much. Its still to the top right now. I don't know how I'm loosing so much without noticing a problem. I can't believe nothing melted down with hardly any coolant in it. It ran really strong all weekend. I'm still going to pull the head and cylinders to check them over. The rear sprocket and brake disc seem to have way more slop on the splines now. I'm wondering if replacing the sprocket hub and disc hub will be the cure for it or do I need to change the axle or upgrade the parts to handle the larger HP output. No one in our group could keep up. It was great to have that much power at hand. I was always struggling to keep up on long wide trails with my blaster. The only titties we seen were the ones at the strip bar two miles down the road from our site. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SlowerThanYou Posted June 3, 2013 Report Share Posted June 3, 2013 Long winded feller that turbowrenchhithishead, he must be Windy's little brother. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
turbowrenchhead Posted June 3, 2013 Author Report Share Posted June 3, 2013 I already know why your o-ring fucked up. you ran 87 octane it it. It already ran low on coolant 3 hours before hand. I'm thinking it got to hot and something melted. I'm going to run a pressure test on the coolant system and a leak down test before I do anything to it. Now I have to get it ready for West Virgina. Even more brutal trails! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
turbowrenchhead Posted June 3, 2013 Author Report Share Posted June 3, 2013 Plus I had no option but to run 87 octane. There were no other options. I knew this coming into this trip and tuned it accordingly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glenyboy Posted June 4, 2013 Report Share Posted June 4, 2013 I feel sorry for the owner of the borrowed 350 raptor 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deadbeat Posted June 4, 2013 Report Share Posted June 4, 2013 Plus I had no option but to run 87 octane. There were no other options. I knew this coming into this trip and tuned it accordingly. what did you do to tune your bike on dog piss 87 octane? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dirtydownunder Posted June 4, 2013 Report Share Posted June 4, 2013 they measure octane different there. 87 there is like our 91. 94 there is like our 98 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deadbeat Posted June 4, 2013 Report Share Posted June 4, 2013 lol Ultimate94, thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
locogato11283 Posted June 4, 2013 Report Share Posted June 4, 2013 87 octane is still dog piss. i wouldn't run a stock banshee on 87. You wouldn't run yours on EFI either. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glenyboy Posted June 4, 2013 Report Share Posted June 4, 2013 Bazinger Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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