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The first thing I would try would be the gas cap vent hose. Make sure it's not plugged up. Take the gas cap off and make sure the little ball in the cap still rattles around freely. You might want to put a fuel filter on the supply line so you can tell if gas is going to the carbs once it dies on you. If none of this works you can try swapping the coil with a known good one and see if it dies still. Other than those things I can't think of anything off the top of my head at this time. Try that stuff first though.

I totally agree. I normally scan the posts for people looking for technical help with their Banshee's but there have been so many stupid posts about some of the same topics that are no more than 5 lines down from their post. Some people need to get the clue that there is a search function that will find the stuff your looking for. I'll give one specific post about a stupid question that can be answered oh... about anywhere on the world wide waste of time (What are TORS?). This topic was posted in the Repair and Mods section. Like I posted as a reply... do a search as there are only a ton of info about the TORS system on the web. I'll crawl back into my shop now...

I don't know... maybe you could do a search and once you find out come back and tell us all what they are and what they do. I'm sure there are only about half a million threads about TORS on the internet.

Don't bust me Mr. Rent-A-Cop man... I didn't mean any harm, I swear. Remember what your momma always told ya.... don't ever bring a knife to a gun fight. Ha... you know I'm only elbowing ya Mr. Ninjamaster.... I mean no respect. Who did you learn your martial arts skillz from?

Man this is great! I got a good laugh for you guys...

Lets see if this works

Instead of the PEP model you should look at the Denton model. It has more adjustability and is fully rebuildable like the PEP but a few bucks cheaper. The mounting system on the Denton is better than the PEP as well.

It will run hot and you might not hear or feel anything. One of the results is holed pistons (melting a hole in the top of the piston dome). You can check for little sparkles on the spark plugs after doing a plug chop but the true way to check is to pull your pistons before you melt a hole and look at the bottom of the dome. If it's clean with no color you might be jetted rich. If it's black or dark brown you are running really hot and will melt down if you push it.

I think the problem is your are trying to hold in the clutch lever when adjusting the screw. You need to adjust the clutch lever adjuster all the way in. You want the clutch cable to have as much slack as possible. Now have someone push the clutch throw out arm with a finger towards the right side of the bike. Use the screw to align the two arrows. Now tighten the lock nut and button that thing up. Now adjust the clutch lever so you can pull the clutch in without the bike stalling out when you click it into first gear. If you pull in the clutch lever while trying to adjust the clutch you will not have it set up correctly and you will spin the new plates until they are wasted like your old plates are.

Go buy a new adjuster from a stealership. Pull the shaft and ball out and inspect them for wear as well. You shouldn't have any problems if you get this stuff replaced.

Did you make sure the tube between the carbs is there and isn't cracked?

How many watts? If it's a 200 watt I'll take it.

Blue_screamer give Alba a call and talk to Mike Stralo in Parts. Tell him Paul sent you and he'll hook you up. I've got a +2 Lone Star swingarm with a round housing carrier. It's way better than stock and I will never go back to the stock POS ever again.

You could be a little creative and do what I did.

Justin make sure you screw the hose as far down as it will go. Sometimes the o-ring doesn't seal that well and will change the final numbers.

Are you sure the throttle tube isn't rubbing on the handle bar causing it to stick? Double check the throttle cable clips aren't blocking the hole in the slide.

I would try some lithium grease and use gas to clean it up. Just make sure you do this in an area where there are no pilot lights or open flames. I used Yamalube 2R mixed with 91 octane at 40:1 with no problems. Now I run Belray MC-1 at 50:1 with 91. One thing you shouldn't do is turn the motor over while it has all the crap sitting in the bottom of the cases. If any did get in the bearings turning the motor is just going to help it work it's way deeper in the bearings. I would split the cases and inspect everything while it's apart. A tube of yamabond is cheap and knowing for sure there is nothing left in the crank is better than worrying about it during your first trip back out there. If you need any tools or a hand getting things repaired shoot me an email. I just helped another guy on this site get his motor squared away.

Probably a bearing that went bad. It was probably spinning in the race causing the slight noise until you got it hot enough that it welded itself together causing the lock up. Hopefully it wasn't the bearing with the split ring holding it in place. If it is you might have some damage to the cases.

Hey Derek it's Paul with the Blue Banshee. Did Scott get out on Saturday night? Anyway you might want to back your timing off a little or mix some race gas with premium pump gas. As crazy as it sounds you might want to rethink your oil fuel ratio. Too much oil can cause heat leading you into detonationville. I just added a milled head and advanced my timing 3 degrees before this last trip and ran fine with pump gas. Your jetting could still be a tad lean as well adding to the heat problem. The tempatures were pretty cool in the morning when we went on that run. There are a lot of factors compounding on each other leading down to a holed piston. Now what to do about it... your going to have to flush the bearings really well to be sure nothing is in the crank bearings. I would try to force a thick fluid something like grease through it and clean that out afterwards. Clean the mess up the best you can and then determine if you are willing to run the crank without a rebuild. If you want or need any help let me know.

One thing you might want to look into is the rear shock itself. If your bike is older or has a lot of riding time on it the settings could be blown out. You have 89 listed in your user name and if that is the year of your bike I'd be willing to bet your shock is in need of a rebuild. You can check the rebound setting to see if you need a rebuild. Push down as hard as you can on the back of your bike and see how fast the rear end pops back up. Now adjust the grey ring on the bottom of your shock to adjust the rebound. If it only takes a click or two to slow down the rebound your shock is ok. If you have it adjusted to the slowest setting and it didn't slow down the rebound it's way past rebuild time. Try to adjust it or rebuild it.

Your clutch is slipping. Add some aftermarket heavy duty springs and maybe get new clutch plated depending on how much yours are worn.

I checked my motor over the summer... 80 degrees in San Diego (300-500ft elev.) and had 125 on both sides after 4 hard years of riding.

They mainly are made so you can put larger aftermarket carbs on without having the clutch throwout arm hit the bottom of the bowl.

How much experience do you have with jumping? If you nose dive off all jumps you aren't jumping correctly and there is no way adjusting any shock will fix that problem. You need to stay hard on the gas when you go off jumps. Don't hit the brakes while in the air either. You need to be in the proper gear for the jump as well... you can't be chuggin along in 4th on a second gear jump. How big are these jumps that you are going off? How far are you jumping? How long have you been riding?

Bore it out to 65 and get a new dome for that side. It's better off to repair the damage now instead of bandaid fixing it and having it cause bigger more expensive problems down the road. Last time I checked it's a pain in the ass to push a Banshee around for miles and trying to get it up and down hills. If that sounds like fun to you go for it.