Recent content by Troop

After thinking about it lastnight and today I think I will be going that route. And you are right with it having 6000 hrs on after the meter quit working who knows how many are on it. And if the tranny does flop it would not be a good situation. And if they let it run dry on oil who knows if the...

There were 6000 is that the hour meter said. I finally talked to the guy that was driving it again and it was ran dry on oil also. So I'm sure that's why the cam went belly up. Anyone have any used engines laying around?

So here is what I found. Upon trying to pull the cam out of the block it was very hard. Finally got the cam about 1/3 of the way out and stuck again. After looking through the holes where your lifters sit I could see the second and third cam bearings were toast! Pitted and scared. Could tell it...

A rebuild is the most likely thing that is going to be happening. But I am not the type of guy that can tear into something that's failed and just rebuild everything and not know what made it fail and why. I'm sure there are more of u out there like that. But yes I have the motor out and gear...

When I had the head off the motor I put a straight edge across the top of the block, each piston came the same distance up. So can't be a twisted crank. I have a book now. Yes it is all gears for timing. That is the only thing that strays me away from timing. Would thinks its pretty hard for the...

So dropped new pushrods in the motor. Put a new head gasket in it and put it back together. No go. Didn't even try to fire. Same as before. Now something I noticed this time around is that when I have my wife turn the motor over so I can see what's going on it I put my hand by the intake hose...

Will do. Thanks. Do u know what the sensor by the oil filter is for?

So I ordered 6 pushrods, a head gasket and a shop manual. I would assume the shop manual has torque specs for the head and also would be a handy tool for these machines. So I was tinkering around a little bit with it today and noticed that it has a wire that has came disconected. It looks like...

I'm sure it can use a full on service. If I can get it running I will be going through the whole machine and servicing everything. Should I be worried about maybe timing jumped on it? Should I be looking into that before I put it back together.?

Sounds like a plan. I will be calling the nearest dealer tomorrow to try to get some. I did pull all the pushrods and rolled them. Two of them are very bent. The others looked ok? But I will just replace them all to be sure. Be nice if it fired right up :drive2: anyone know of a good place to...

Update. After further investigation I found another bent pushrod. So I figured the worst and I decided to pull the head off and take a look. Well pulled the head and it looks fine. No damage to pistons no scoring on the cylinders. So what happened?!?!?! What should I do next? Just replace the...

Not to sure on hours as the hour meter is not working. Any ideas as to what I should try for the engine?

New to the group here! Lots of useful info going around. Thanks for having me. I work in an ore mine up in northern mn. For getting around the plant they bought us a used 2004 rtv 900. Worked great. One day a co-worker was was driving it and said he had it full throttle going down a long hill...

New to the group here! Lots of useful info going around. Thanks for having me. I work in an ore mine up in northern mn. For getting around the plant they bought us a used 2004 rtv 900. Worked great. One day a co-worker was was driving it and said he had it full throttle going down a long hill...