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What gearing do you have? Most Banshees I have been on even with tall gearing can easily launch in second. That can get you in front of him a bit on the holeshot if you can pull 2nd gear. Wether or not the paddles are hooking up on the grass is only going to be a call you can make. If they are spinning excessively more than the other guys dirt tires, then you need to run dirt tires. If they are digging in and ripping the crap out of the grass you may be better off with the paddles. Also what year was this yfz? He could have done ths stock cam mod if it was an early one, that would give it considerably more mid range power on his bike, but generally still be considered stock with a pipe.

Put lapping compound on the end of the crank and lap the flywheel in. When they shear the keys, they can get imperfections between them and the crank. This will cause the flywheel to not fully seat to the crank and it can shake loose.

It sounds like a sheared flywheel key. If you know how it works you can pull the plugs out and set them on the head. Use the kick starter and crank it over by hand when you hear the pistons get to tdc and you hear the air rush out you should see a spark. If its sparking any other time the key is sheared. Mine did the same thing two years ago. If you do have to replace the key, make sure you lap the flywheel back to the crankshaft or it will do it again.

Beverly is small and dusty, but its an ok place to ride for a few hours. Juniper Dunes down in Pasco is way more fun, and not as dirty. Juniper Maps.

I dont get it either.

by the time you buy the lights, pay shipping, fab mounts, and put them on, you could have just got a set of stock mount trail techs and bolted them on for about $112 with free shipping from Rocky mountain.

Common problems with kill switches are the small plastic piece inside where the contacts are mounted. They come loose and the switch wont work.

If thats the case the bulbs may be blown. Simply unplugging it would not cause them not to work though. Recheck all your connections.

As far as I know, the brake light circuit should be tied into the yellow wire coming out of the case. It should branch off and run to the switch, then to the brake light. I would think this green wire is off the e-brake switch, the bike wont go over an idle if the ebrake is pulled (via green wire activation). I need to check a diagram to be sure, but all the lighting circuits should not be tied into the cdi at all.

The 4 wire rectifier from RS is a single Phase ac to dc rectifier/regulator. You have to float a ground on the stator and run your floated ground and stock a/c output wire into the reg/rec (2 yellows). Red wire coming out is the 12v charge wire, and black coming out of the reg/rec is the new system ground. Inside of the flywheel spins around the stator and induces an ac voltage, when the outside pick up coil senses the magnet going by, it produces a small spark as a sort of crank sensor. Thus triggering your to cdi to tell the coil to fire the a/c voltage off and create a spark at the plug. Other common problems are tors wires shorted or connected together, or the tors system not being properly removed. I personally have been messing with Banshee's since 1993 and have seen I think maybe 1 cdi go bad out of the fleet of bikes we own and that I work on for people. Without a strong sense of how the electrical system in the bike works, it can be very hard to trouble a no spark condition. Even if the bike had the malfunctioning component replaced, if you removed other parts improperly to get to it, or installed them improperly (ie flywheel or pick up gap) then you will still have no spark when your finished. You need to make sure the tors is propely deactivated, your stator lighting circuit wires are properly installed, your flywheel is not cracked internally, your pickup gap is correct, your kill and key switches work right, you have no shorted or open wiring, and all the connections in the system are not corroded. Using an ohm meter to verify circuits and switch operations is vital and rather easy to do. If you pm me I can help out further, but this thread somehow turned into a lighting thread.

That is right, ignition and lighting circuits on the stator are completely isolated from each other. The only way the lighting circuit can cause a problem is if you have the 2 wires out of the stator reversed for the lighting circuit (yellow and black). If you do that then ac is ran into the ground system and the bike will run very poorly. Last time I checked the voltage regulator only has 1 wire and its grounded through the housing. Otherwise you dont have to worry about the regulator unless your having lighting issues.

The voltage regulator just regulates the ac voltage for the lights. What year is this bike, some key switches were bypassed by shorting the two wires together, other were bypassed by disconnecting it. You also need to make sure none of your wires down near the stator are rubbed through and touching any aluminum components down there. It is very rare to see a cdi failure. Did you set pick up coil gap, and if the flywheel was dropped, hit hard, or severly damaged when it hit the pickup coil it could crack the magnets in it internally. This would cause no spark or intermittent spark.

Yeah that Unocal is on Auburn Way by Auburn Chevrolet. I believe there is a sunoco place in Sumner also.

According to Dyno Dave at ILR Performance, the benefits to AV gas dont out weight the cost when compared to leaded high octane race gas. I cant remeber what he said the av gas would do, but he himself runs high octane race gas and he makes his own ethanol from his apple trees.

On my pants, I had my grandma sew in a section of ironing board material and then cover it with camo in the area where they burn. I have had zero issues since.

Yeah, pants! Were you seriously riding in Shorts?

I would take it to Dave Moore, he is probably one of the best in Oregon.

are the dunes long and tall?

Haven't seen them in person, but the pics look like a skat.

What is the dune terrain like there?

They build great engines, and can even dyno tune it for you.

If your looking to add porting to your package and have a sweet deal on a swingarm staring at you, then get it. It will leave you room to grow into. :thumbsup:

Alot of the time shops like cpi, power pro, and dynoport can make a set of hush silencers for their pipes. Cascade also specializes in quiet silencers for many different pipes.

95 and up is the white square plugs.

My motor guys runs about the same size tire with a 10" wide rim, it looks like a low profile tire, but it seems to get him great traction on his Tecate.