Kickstarter Rattle Repair

[mattjj23]

How do I fix the kickstarter from rattling and being so loose on my 01' banshee?

[ledofthezep]

you can have it rebuilt...try a search & you'll see tons of posts on that. For a quick fix, tak the shifter off, throw a rubber washer on there & reinstall the kicker. Cheap & 'rigged, but it works for me, I think I'm on my 3rd or 4th washer in the past couple years.

[RNBRAD]

If you don't want to do it yourself, you could always PM Holyman, he can do it for you.

[locogato11283]

i bought the little kit from RMATV...been a year now and no rattle.

[Holyman]

Just send it to me with $15 and I'll fix it, paint it and send it back to you.

Send me an email... [email protected]

[sheerider11]

lots of companys make rebuild kit for it like cascade and mod quad they are only like $10 too i got one and it works great

[scottt89]

I may get laughed at for this but, when you say "paint it" , do you make it all black, or do you do different colors when you do the rebuild?

[fixitrod]

you can also do a search for " holyman tech". But why bother when you can have him do it.

[2004LEBanshee]

so you can ride in a day instead of a week.

[trex banshee]

vitos sells a rebuild kit for only 3 or 4 dollars comes with new spring, ball, and screw worked perfect.

[Holyman]

You can do whatever you want but I've had more of those "other" rebuilds go into my trash can than I care to count.

If you want it done, just send me an email... [email protected]

[Meat]

unless those springs in these rebuild kits are heavier or better than the stock springs, your kickstarter will eventually start rattlin' again. I replaced mine with a stock spring and within a few hours it was rattling again. The next time I placed an order I bought 5 stock springs and every so often I would put a new spring in the kickstarter..... until one day I got the Holyman Tech kickstarter fixxer upper mod done and that was the end of my kickstarter spring replacin' days. And on the plus side.... a good BHQ member makes a few bucks, besides... Vito's doesnt need another three dollars anyways.

[Holyman]

Thanks MEAT. As it turns out I think I make about .38 cents on the mod but at least I'm not losing money on it any more. Of the $15, about $5 goes to return shipping, I buy custom springs and stainless grease fitting, I include the anodized chain with the stainless fittings and the stainless screw and stainless nylock nut. After I'm done machining the post for a larger ball bearing that won't let the kicker get stuck in the folded position, and the grease fitting, I paint it with at least 3 coats of Rustoleum Hammer finish Black.

On top of all of that, if there is a problem, send it back and I'll fix it. So far, I have had 3 complaints... 1 rattled, 1 the paint job went bad {I tried to do 2 coats of solid black and couple clear coats and it disolved the base coat while in the box} and 1 that swings out by itself while riding. So there's the good bad and ugly.

[trail rider]

i bought a repair kit from cascade and that mo'fo was tight. i had to put it in a vise and work it several times back and forth to work it loose. several days later it was back to rattlin....screw it