Hot Rod Crank

[Yaxy]

As some of you know i am not the type of person that critisizes or downgrades. Like many, I have tried many products and have various opinions on the value and results of these products. Unfortunately, over my 19 years of owning my banshee and probabably 25,000 miles on the seat I have had little to bitch about till now.

 

Two years back during my preventative maintance cycle I decided it was time to replace my trouble free original crank with 20,000 + miles on her with a new one. The choices were pay $800.00 for a factory or $400.00 for a Hot Rods. I personally have never purchased any Wiseco products just cause many people I know have always seemed to have issues with them. So with this and the cost factor in mind I decided to give the Hot Rods a try. I ordered the crank from a reputable builder on the site, had her trued and welded and got ready for many worry free years of riding, well at least I thought.

 

Well after about 1500 miles and two years of riding I found out today that I had a bad rod bearing that prematurely took out a cylinder also. Well in my mind I am thnking 17 years on a stock yamaha crank and 2 years on a Wiseco that experienced the exact same riding with no additional mods. For those who have seen my shee and my RZ shee you know how maticulous my quads are kept. This just pissed me off that if I decided to run this motor one more year I would have probably seen my FIRST motor blow since I bought the quad in 1990. I have absolutely no reason to think that there was any other factor that could have caused the rod failure to happen other than poor quality. I know many ofyou have had good luck with there products and it's just unfortunate I didn't.

 

I guess my now 19 years old factory crank is going back in.

 

Chris

[sheerider1026]

man that is very strange, i have seen the hot rods cranks handle sever abuse and horsepower on highly modded bikes, i have one in my cub motor and it is holding up nicely, but i have seen yamaha cranks that are only a few years old blow up also, i think all in all sometimes you get a product that has impurities in the metal or materil it is made of, not sure how to explain it, sometimes u get lucky and sometimes not i guess, just my .02

[Justintoxicated]

that sucks man

[Bansh-eman]

unfurtunately its a roll of the dice, and it looks like you got a shity hand dealt.... i have had Zero issues with any weisco products over the last 18 or so years, ranging from dirtbikes to quads and to go karts that we raced both 2 stroke and 4 stroke crank and pistons. Better luck next time

[Yaxy]

Yes guys, it is unfortunate that this happened. Like everything else in this world you get a good one or a bad one.

 

 

Chris

[2strokespirit]

Yes guys, it is unfortunate that this happened. Like everything else in this world you get a good one or a bad one.

 

 

Chris

 

It's just bad luck. Someone please help me out here, I thought that the hot rods and wiseco cranks are 2 differant things??? There was a thread about cranks on the RD/RZ forum and it turned out that the wiseco cranks are made in Taiwan although the box says USA. I don't say its true, a lot of things are made in Taiwan these days, but I just don't like a "made in Taiwan" part. I have bought second hand cranks from e-bay, oem ones, that runs and still does after years. It also turns out that the vitos, wiseco etc are made from one company that makes these cranks for differant companies over the world. Maybe its true, maybe not, I know that some of these hot rods cranks runs for years, one of my mates has one. I heard the Yamaha conrods can take much more abuse than the others, that ha been said by a reputable builder, If I know for a fact that the cranks runs with bearings from taiwan or china, I would certainly buy the oem ones, don't care if there are 10 wiseco stickers on them. The hole story of a rebuild oem crank that is just as much or almost as much as a new Hot Rods crank are nonsense, EXCEPT if you have to replace the crankpins, in which case you have to buy the webs. I can rebuild a factory crank for under $200 here in my country, that includes rods, small ends and big ends from Yamaha and a set of mains from FAG, NSK or SKF.