I didnt use the right oil?

[trueraiderfan]

Well i was out drag racing with my buddies this weekend. I was barley beating a banshee that i should have been smoking. Also i was barely beating an 07 Craptor 700 with pipe and filter. My buddies and I got to talking and thought that it may be jetted to rich, so I took it to my builder to have him change the getting from the winter jets to a leaner setting cause it has been in the 60's here lately. he took a look at it and seen that one side had both exhaust springs broke off and the pipe was just barley sitting there and not really in the exhaust port so we thought that might be it. Well he got to looking futher and looked at my pro-design air filter and for some reason or another wiped his hand across it and called me. He said what kind of oil have you been using? I said that i had just been using the either motor oil or K&N oil that I had laying around the garage. Well that was the prolbem. He said that it had all kinds of shit inside the filter because I had been using the wrong typ of oil. (he said the oil I needed to use was a real nasty sticky oil made for foam filters) Because of that he said my compression was only around 145 and it should have been around 170 ish so I have only had my bike out of the shop for a month mabye after just putting 1500 dollars into it not includint new paddle tires and new holshots all the way around so i was pissed. Anyway he said he could just hone it out and put new rings in it for 150.00 and i just orderd the rings from Wiseco today and just the damn rings were 63.95 with shipping! I thougth that was a lil high but o well. I guess I am glad I learned a lesson for 200.00 than learn a lession for another 1200 bucks.

Edited February 20, 2007 by trueraiderfan

[LiftdT4R]

Damn dude, I guess it's good that you caught it sooner rather then later. The filter oil is much much sticker then regular oil, BIG difference.

 

Just one question though, why are you paying a builder to change jets? It's not that hard expesically when your runnin' pods. Just buy a synch tool from Jeff and do it yourself. Also, on the exhaust, you never took a look and noticed the spring was missing?

 

I'm not trying to knock you or anything, but you could save a good amount of beer tickets doin simple stuff like that yourself, and just looking over the bike after every ride. I found that my bike became way mroe fun when I strted doing my work myself. Kind of a pride thing ya know.

[trueraiderfan]

Y I had no clue that you had to use a special oil or I def would have been using it.

 

He was acutally going to show me hoe to dial in my bike I was not gunna just drop it off and have him do it. I really like to do stuff like that but I wanted to make sure that I knew how to do it and he was not gunna charge me anything for it so its all good. Just wanted to make sure I was not gunna melt a piston or anything ya know. WE he almost did in a way glad we cought that shit.

 

But it will be ROCKING AND ROOLLING WHEN THE SHOWDEO SOMES UP MARCH 4TH. YA BABY

Edited February 21, 2007 by trueraiderfan

[LiftdT4R]

Cool, always good to know!

 

I wanted to ask you too, what's up with the holeshots? Your not MXing a bike like that are you? (Me thinks not)

 

Sounds like a hot bike from your sig, any pics, I don't think I've seen your bike yet.

[trueraiderfan]

I like tha holeshots cause i like to drag race on dirt and they hook up real good on it. I also do some riding on the mx track not racing or anything just like to hit the jumps but im gunna have to get a damn swing arm cause i cant keep the front end donw worth a shit. Do you think I would still be able to get pretty good air if I put on a +4 swinger and have the +2+1 a arms or would that put too much stress on the swinger and snapp it real easy? Oh ya I will get some pics up here b4 too long so I can show's ya my shee. It's not all blinged out like everybody else's on here but it will get there. I wanted it to go fast first haha.

[06BaNsHeE]

I like tha holeshots cause i like to drag race on dirt and they hook up real good on it. I also do some riding on the mx track not racing or anything just like to hit the jumps but im gunna have to get a damn swing arm cause i cant keep the front end donw worth a shit. Do you think I would still be able to get pretty good air if I put on a +4 swinger and have the +2+1 a arms or would that put too much stress on the swinger and snapp it real easy? Oh ya I will get some pics up here b4 too long so I can show's ya my shee. It's not all blinged out like everybody else's on here but it will get there. I wanted it to go fast first haha.

 

 

Get a loco swinger.Bigred used and abused his +4 swinger and its still more than alive.Loco abuses his swingers like hell also and there still perfect.Thats the only swinger I would get.Pm loco...

[trueraiderfan]

Sweet ass man I forgot he made those thanks alot man.

[LiftdT4R]

Even with a good +4 it's gonna tend to throw you towards the bars more. The few times I've seen people MX the + swinger, the front end of the bike almost always comes down first.

[trueraiderfan]

ya thats another reason I wanted to go with just the +2 instead of the +4. Im gunna get a stricky dune/ drag bike this comming fall and it will be a +10 or so cheeta but i wanna buy one that is already done so I dont have to have so much money into it. and use my bike I have now to ride around here and my other bike to be my pretty shinny ass drag bike. not a drag fram or anything like that cause i wanna cruise the dunes too