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Good news is i found a motor for my Max. I put it in and fired I up. Sounds GREAT! Noticed quickly the water pump was spitting from the weeper. Ran the new motor bout 10 minutes. Result was TONS of water in the oil. Hoping the water pump was bunk I swapped pumps. Put fresh oil in it and fired it...

Diagnosed the Vmax today. Evidently I broke the crank. I'm not rebuilding it again, so she's for sale. If she wont sell in a month on CL I'll part her out on here. Got a lot of good parts.

Well folks after a long ride I took off from a stop light and at the next light I got really harsh clatter that sounds almost like a rod knock. I've yet to investigate and fully diagnose the issue but it may be terminal. I think its time to put down a loan on a newer bike but my Max is my...

Sorry I havent been around much. Things have been tight and complicated around here lately. My Max feel out of registration and Im doin what I can to get the tags and insurance paid up so I can get back to riding. I took her for a quick run around the block and she feels great! The motor...

Well in the last year I built a 1982 YZ490 and blew it to pieces...:bang head: Then I got a 1992 Yz250...and blew it to pieces:bang head: Today I picked up my notoriously fast 1977 YZ400. Lets see if I can make this one last a bit longer! Got it for free,ganna see if I can get it cleaned up...

Ok I know we've hit this subject once or twice before but Im doing it again because Its hard as Hell to find THE OTHER thread that has a picture of a Max wearing ZRX shocks. I got the homie hook up from a fella WildWeasel knows from another forum,BIG THANKS TO BOTH OF THEM! I scored these for...

Ive had this thing a while but today is the first time I snapped a picture. Here in always sunny and perfectly weatherer California a proper BBQ is a must! So I built this bad bitch! Charcoal...no acceptions:biglaugh: (its a flavor thing)

So this is my car...my only car. Its far from perfect and Lord knows I want to paint it ASAP but right now its NOT in the budget. So Ive been playing with other cosmetics that ARE. Ive been thinking of filling in my back side windows with louver scoops,kinda Mustang Cobra/Eleanor style.(got a...

The concept is simple enough but I'm curious about the motor side of this equation. How are they doing it? Remove the bevel gear? Or is it outside of the case somehow attached to the midgear? Just playin with the idea, don't have nearly enough time and money for the idea but boy it sure...

After the last attempts to video my bike were so crappy,you guys deserved a PROPER video so here it is. My buddy is a good editer so he helped me out with it. Someone let me know when Youtube pulls my audio off of it...that will likely happen soon,they emailed me about it matching 3rd party...

ok so my cell only lets me shoot 30 seconds of video at a time, and by the time Yotube uploads them the quality is SHOT but here we go! Promise to get you better videos soon. <iframe width="420" height="345" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/uWrLp89Y2rA" frameborder="0"...

Fun story...I got my Vmax back together(expect video probably tonight) and yesterday was her first test ride that extended beyond my neighborhood. So I get her on the road and everything is GREAT! Power feels good,smooth acceleration,shifting and clutching feels tight and race-ish(race clutch...

Its a little metal rod with some weird bends in it...been told by the numb nut that took it out it "came out with the clutch":ummm: But the book and micro fiche say otherwise....any ideas guys? I swear this is the LAST part Im ganna have to do this with.:bang head:

So...4 guys took my motor out...guess who wasnt the guy that took the cooling system off! ME!!! Got this last hose that seems to have no home. Book doesnt say much about it specificallly either. Its the little one that points strait down next to the temp switch. And yes I know this is the...

Ok so i mentioned before i was planning on doing this project in preperation for getting a Morleys Muscle Jet Kit and now Ive found the way! These Hyperchargers run on a single vacuum port and cost at a minimum $150 bucks....I have a guy im picking this one up from on Saturday for $30 I run...

Alrighty guys it has been s long project getting my bike back together due to some madness at home but were almost there! Just a few more costly parts to replace and it will be ready to rock... My question here is I've done most of the Vmax handling mods to make the Chimera a canyon...

I just had my buddy Nickel Plate (same process alot of gun manufacturers use,S&W being one of them I think) a bunch of my parts since I have em off anyways. They look great! for $30 sand blasted and plated Im real pleased!:biglaugh:

Long story short my brother hasn't had a car in YEARS so he rides his bike everywhere in every weather. Over the weekend I bought him a $300 truck that was just shy of running and parked it in front of my house so I could get enough man power to push it up my steep driveway. I got home this...

Well Im at it again! I dont know if its because Im stubborn, cheap, or some misplaced sense of pride that I keep doin these projects when I "could" buy them but, I hope (honestly I do) they inspire at least one other person that they can do some of these mods at home on a tight budget...I know...

Ok the long story short is when I got my bike I had the carbs cleaned in a "back yard" shop and the dude "ran a tiny drill bit" through my jets to make up for the low quality of gas since 85 he said... It has run super rich since then and now that the whole motor is torn down I think it's time...