rubberneck

Sweet, I might be intereseted in a +2 for my brothers bike. Question, the arm in the pic above looks to have additional bracing in it compared to the one on your site. Is that special order? If I wanted a +2 with the bracing and skid plate mounts, what is the lead time to get one roughly? thanks man.

No dont sell it man, you'll get this fixed. you've put a lot of time into that bike, and the pics you posted looked sweet. A year from now you will be riding that bitch and wont even remember this shit.

Where is the puking emoticon???

NO NO man, I said RAISE the needle (lower clip postiton from blunt end) My thought is you are way lean in the middle with a 250 and the 2nd position from blunt. Try the 4th postition from blunt and see how it goes.

Yes, he outsources the swingarms and steering stems and many of his products. He may even outsource the a-arms from another manufacture. I dont know that. Bottom line if a company is going to sell a product, produced by them or not, they should stand behind it. They just keep blowing me off and standing behind the statement that "weve sold a lot of those and never had that problem" That is a bullshit answer. Nothing was bent on my bike and I proved that by putting the arm on 2 other bikes. There is a problem in the arm and they wont take it back. YOu can cheer lead for them all you want, but bottom line, they dropped the ball in this situation. The way i see it they screwed me out of 650 bucks, and I hope to cost them as much money in sales as i can. Let me ask you this do you or anybody you know have a swinger from amstar. Because i would love for you to take off the chain and clamp a straight edge on the inside of the rear sprocket and then tell me how it lines up with the countershaft sprocket. I wold be willing to bet that most guys would never even check. I did and it isn't right. whatever, i can rant all day, im not going to change your opinion of them, thats fine. Hopefully i can prevent another member who may read this from having the same headache i am having right now. As far as the a-arm went, i never called because it was a simple fix and i needed the bike put together for the weekend.. I only mentioned it now because you keep saying how great their stuff is and i have had a different experience. And you know what, all companies have problems. Things get made wrong, screwed up, whatever. I ge that. Its a reality called the human factor. To me the mark of a good company isn't how they handle themselves when everything is working perfect, its how they handle themselves when there is a problem.

Dont worry bro, you might be 6 hrs from pismo, but you aint missing shit. you are really close to heaven. GLAMIS. If i live inSD, i would never ride any where else. LOL unfortunately for me, pismo is 4 hrs, dumont 8 and glamis 10, so i go to pismo. I can remember before the tree huggers got their faggy hands on the place. No fences and some kick ass duning. Oh well the good old days

I do not know who makes their a-arms. That is one of the products that the manufacture told me he does not make. He has vowed to make the situation right no matter what. I am not going to publicly say anymore about the manufacture at this point. If he does what he says and makes it right, i will be sure to tell everybody. Conversly if the situation does not work out i will let you know also. My bitch with ASR is that it has been almost 4 months now and I have spent hours and hours dealing with this. Everytime i call i get no where. Oh yeah, i also have their +2+1 a-arms and yes they work great. When i got them however, where the lower arm comes into the frame, the welder had gotten too hot and burned a big bur into the area where the bushing rides. The idiot that pressed the bushings in didn't bother to look and whacked the bushing in anyway and it collapsed. I couldn't get the a-arm bolt in and when i looked inside i realized what had happened. I knocked the damaged bushing out, ground out the burr with a pencil grinder and then had to replace the bushing. Luckily i had put new bushings in my stockers not long before I replaced them or i would have had to come up with one. Sorry, but in my book you should look somewhere else. I purchased from them because a couple of members on here were talking them up. Well, Im here now to give the other side. They suck and I hope I can cost them as much business as possible.

Are the carbs in sync? Try rasing the needle a notch or two and see if it helps (lower the clip)

This is what i do, grab each front tire and shake back and forth/front to back. You are looking for play/clunks. this can indicate bad wheel bearings/ball joints/ tie rod ends or a-arm bushings. wiggle the bars back and forth, front to back checking for play in the steering stem. If you feel any play, try to look and see where its coming from. Inspect the frame looking for any obvious bends/ big dents. Grab the rear grab bar and pick up. if it clunks at the top, you could have worn cradle/link or shock bushings. push back and forth and see if there is any play in the swingarm/frame. Put it up on blocks and turn the rear tires make sure everything is free, no clunks. Inspect the condition of the chain sprockets/rollers guides. Look for damage to the engine cases around the front sprocket indicating a thrown chain at one time. Pull the dipstick and smear some oil on a clean white surface or your fingers. If it is milky, it could indicate water in the oil. If it is gray it probably has a wasted clutch. Metal flakes, could be trans clutch anything. If it is dark and nasty, probably hasnt had the best maintenance. Check for any obvious oil/water leaks. Now go ride it. run it through the gears, make sure it shifts nice. Come to a stop with the clutch pulled in and rev the bike in first gear. If it tries to creep forward, clutch is dragging, could be a grooved up clutch basket. If everything is looking pretty good by this point, shut it down, pull both plugs out and do a compression test. With both plugs out of machine, give it full throttle and kick the living hell out of it untill the compression guage stops rising. At sea level you want to see 120-130 PSI on a fresh top end. You shouldnt see more than a 5 psi diff from cylinder to cylinder either. Keep in mind that any couple of these problems arent' really that big of a deal, and are to be expected on a used bike, just factor the cost of repair in when/if you make an offer. In my area, a 2000-2500 dollar bike is probably going to have a lot of the above problems. A pretty nice stockish bike goes for 3000-3500.

Stick welder and a file. Serious bummer man.

Cool, sounds like we will have just about identical set ups. Keep us posted on the progress.

SWEET, thats what i wanted to hear

Leave em. I like the dumbo ears.

Sweet man, keep me posted. What domes did you go with? What carbs you running? You running gas or alky? Which pipes? I am pretty excited.

So this in not normal right? I just ordered A black Fast head with my new motor, I dont want it to turn purple, id rather change to natural aluminum if that is the case.

I will definitely be there another time or 2 before the end of summer. Going in middle of march, but will be on the ATC 250r, cause i dont think my new CUB will be ready. Would love to plan something around May to break it in and get it jetted before my trip to oregon in june.

How do you tell when it starts breaking down?

OOPs, looks like somebody at the post office is enojoying some banshee parts. Hope the guy gets in touch with you. Whats the turn around if i wanted to get my clutch case polished?? thanks

That would be really cool, i printed that whole post out before the first time i tore into my bike. It was nice to see everything in real pics before jumping in. Maybe this time we can even keep all the ass clowns out of the post with their bitchy little comments about not cleaning cases and arguing about the best way to hold the rods and shit.

I have spent quite a bit of time on the yfz450 and a honda 450. I like the suspension on the yfz, I liked the tranny and brakes on the honda a lot more. will probably be getting the yfz though as i have so many tires that will fit the yamaha. I really like how light it feels compared to the banshee, especially in the tight rough stuff. dont think you can go wrong with any of them. Would love to spend some time on the new KTM. If money wasn't an issue, i would probably get the 525

that kid looks like brad pitt compared to the raptor shee plastics. Super Fugly

no, im the first person lately, i did some looking back aways.

Yep, many times. after 3 months and screwing around countless hours i requested both verbally and in writing that i wanted a return authorization so i could return the swingarm for a refund.. Mike told me i'm just the guy that answers the phone, i cant do that. so i asked him to get approval from whoever could. Instead, they requested pics of the problem which i gladly provided. I had both bikes sitting nose to nose with the swingarms removed and put their swinger on each back to back and took pics. They said they couldn't really see it in the pics. They want me to take a 2.5 hour drive to the guys shop who actually builds them to have him look at it. Sorry, but im not going to drive 5 hours to show up and have him agree with what i am saying. Bottom line is they still do not belive there is anything wrong with the arm.. I have tried 2 diff arms on 3 diff bikes and they all fit the same. Clearly not all 3 bikes are bent the same amount in the same direction. So logic dictates the problem is the new arm. Especially when all 3 bikes have perfec sprocket alignment witth the stock arms on them. I would much rather send it back and get my money and go somewhere else. But since they are dicking me around, and i am running out of time before my next trip, I just spent about 2 hours in the shop last night doing all kinds of custom machine work to the bearing carrier to try and fix the issue. Havent had time to get the bearings back in and put the arm on to check it. Im pretty confident in the end that i will be able to make it work. Luck for me my dad has about 200k worth of machine shop equipment to allow me to do that kind of stuff. What would the average guy do?? I have been talking to the manufacture and he is cool, but it still pisses me off that i spent good money and it has taken 3 months and a lot of work on my end to get where we are at.. Screw them. I hope you have better luck, but I would never buy anything from them again or recomend them. Oh yeah, and i did some more searching on here and it is not a first, just the most recent.

I use the Honda gear oil, Used to change it after every weekend in the sand, have been going about every other. I usually put about 40-50 miles a day in the dunes, usually there about 3-4 days. so I guess Im going about 250-300 miles on oil now.

american star blows. I have had sprocket alignment issues with the swingarm I bought from them in october. Sent it back, they sent me another. Still same damn problem. the rear sprocket sits too far to the outside of the bike in relation to the counter shaft sprocket. First they said i installed it wrong. Sorry, almost impossible. Then they said my frame was bent. Well, i put it on my other shee and my brothers shee. Fits all 3 bikes exactly the same. They refused to let me return it so far. I have now gone completely around them and am working with the company that actually makes the arms to try and get it right. Amstar knows nothing about banshees and will try to give you the run around untill you give up. Well fuck them im not giving up and am going to make negative posts about their shit evertime i see their name come up on here.