locogato11283 Posted January 31, 2009 Report Share Posted January 31, 2009 blessedwithdeath seems to think that by watching your swingarm and carrier bearings will negate the need for a case saver. he thinks that by neglecting them, you will throw chains.. so i wanna know who here has had a chain break or thrown due to bad bearings, because i think hes a retard and his theory is ridiculous. i feel that bad bearings is far less likely to make you break or throw a chain than any of my other choices.. i threw a chain once due to breaking a front sprocket into 5 pieces... EDIT: i changed it so that you can vote for more than one. it seems several people have had more than one happen. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xXBlessedWithDeathXx Posted January 31, 2009 Report Share Posted January 31, 2009 So you have to vote to see it hu? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NYUK Posted January 31, 2009 Report Share Posted January 31, 2009 i just snapped one at the strip. neglect is the major thing i see on the beaters i buy. too much slack. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XxMeltIcexX Posted January 31, 2009 Report Share Posted January 31, 2009 Loose chain here...... twice.... lmao :biggrin: I dont wanna stop racing to fix that damn cheap chain I always buy.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DallasGDub Posted January 31, 2009 Report Share Posted January 31, 2009 damn I voted before I seen the question. I threw mine from neglect. I power washed an oring chain and did not realize it blew half the rings out. Next trip out, it kept coming off. It had a shit load of side to side play. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
locogato11283 Posted January 31, 2009 Author Report Share Posted January 31, 2009 damn I voted before I seen the question. I threw mine from neglect. I power washed an oring chain and did not realize it blew half the rings out. Next trip out, it kept coming off. It had a shit load of side to side play. what did you vote for? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
05.Banshee.SE Posted January 31, 2009 Report Share Posted January 31, 2009 Loose chain. Didn't realize it was worn so bad. Had a new one put on the next day. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
C&B Posted January 31, 2009 Report Share Posted January 31, 2009 Mine straight up broke, pulled up to the hill, wound up let go nada broke right in the middle, master was still there, and i DONT neglegt my shit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DallasGDub Posted January 31, 2009 Report Share Posted January 31, 2009 what did you vote for? Neglect instead of loose chain. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angel ripper Posted January 31, 2009 Report Share Posted January 31, 2009 (edited) well ive thrown a chain a few times, once cause my carrier was bad on my old 300ex i rode it home like that, go 300 yards, it would fall off, go another 300 yards it would fall off, it was a long day getting back to the truck, it smashed the case saver like it wasent even there and still cracked my case, threw a new carrier in and JB welded the case and it was good as new :biggrin: BUT then i ran a entire GNCC race with a bad carrier on my old raptor and it never fell off once or broke, i didnt even realize it until I got there aND i Said fuck, i'm here, gonna go as far as I can, and I finished and ahead of my buddies 250r by the time the race was over, it was so bad i had to get a new swingarm it just worn the piss out of it and i had about 4 inches of play on it, other times i just de railed a chain due to some bullshit sticks or something, but a case saver in my opinon is always a good idea Edited January 31, 2009 by Angel ripper Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
locogato11283 Posted January 31, 2009 Author Report Share Posted January 31, 2009 angel, so what did you vote for? i guess i should make the poll a multi option one because it seems like some guys have had more than one happen. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SpecialEd 05 Posted January 31, 2009 Report Share Posted January 31, 2009 I've never thrown a chain in over 4 years. I still have the factory chain and sprockets. I clean and lube the chain before EVERY ride but it's time for a new one now though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dajogejr Posted January 31, 2009 Report Share Posted January 31, 2009 My chain has only been thrown once...and it was because it went from about 60 MPH on a drag strip to 0 in about 10 feet...it didn't like that. Excess wear and slack are the major players. If rear bearings were so badly worn that they cause the axle to actually creep toward the foot peg when you gas it...then maybe. But you'd have to be an idiot to let them get that worn in the first place.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Meat Posted January 31, 2009 Report Share Posted January 31, 2009 I wouldn't go as far as calling someone an idiot for having bad axle or swingarm bearings. Most bad bearings are found only because the chain popped. You have to realize that everyone uses their quad differently. I can see how a drag racin' guy would think that bad bearings should be caught before the chain problems start. But in my world its more like this ---> Ride every other day, for most of the spring, summer and fall, wash the quad once a week, inspect it as much as possible. But the problem about bearings is... to check em you need to put the quad on a stand to check the swingarm and axle bearings. You can't check em every time you go riding if your riding the damn thing all the time. Oh you will put the quad on the jack stand to check the play in your brand new bearings, you'll do that for the first 10 times you go riding. Then one day your buddies show up and you hop on the quad and go. Now its August and your checking your bearings once in a while. Chain is tight, no throwing problems, everything is dandy. Then one day your chain pops. Throw the quad on a stand and the bearings are shot. Its part of the game. The only way around this is to check the bearings all the time and although its the ideal thing, in reality it doesn't happen and chains begin to pop. Iv never had a chain snap, I don't have high HP motors. I ride in the one of the rockiest places you can imagine and I stopped running a swingarm skid plate 5 years ago and Iv never had the chain derail from a rock. I have never seen a stick de-rail a chain, but Iv had one wrap around my axle and sprocket pretty good. I have never broken a front sprocket or seen one break. I have seen chains de-rail from worn sprockets and from being out of adjustment. Thinking about it more, I would say that all of my chain de-rails were from bad swingarm bearings. Usually its the swingarm bearings that give me the problems and not so much the axle bearings. It only takes a little bit of wear on the front swingarm bearings to wiggle that long swingarm enough to pop the chain. The axle bearings are a lot stronger and last longer than swingarm bearings. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dajogejr Posted January 31, 2009 Report Share Posted January 31, 2009 Swingarm bearings I can see...axle bearings, if you let them get that worn to the point it throws a chain...sorry, just neglect in my book. If you can't feel those bearings, vibration, etc. going bad...who knows what else you don't know about that's going on inside the engine, etc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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