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Hey guys has any one considered that the alignment pin on the camshaft may have sheared off or even worse the woodruff key that aligns the flywheel with TDC may have sheared off . Though it a rarely happens now and then over the years i have gotten hold of some really badly abused bikes , and one would think this would happen on the sport quad end than the utility quad end but ive seen both happen a few times especially on the old Big Reds , and maybe a couple times on Big Bears , Grizzleys , the higher torque full time 4x4 hogs that werent geared for speed but for pulling power and climbing hills . This is only my thoughts , i have 2 teen aged boys , one is the typical millennial who would rather play video games and sleep , and wears a hoodie all day everyday . The other .........well ......... i guess i dug my toes in good the night he was created coz he could pass for my twin from the day he was titled and and we got his bill of sale (birth certificate) up until the point where pics of me get few and far between . i mean its almost scary . im old enough that i remember picture day at school and young enough to have a living mother who kept everything over the years and even our school pics are shockingly identical but he , very much me when i was coming up anything he does is done full send , WOT , FLAT TO THE MAT , balls out with his head on fire and wont nothing change that . Several years ago his blaster would get stuck on a path down to a dear blind we use and after having to get up on some cold mornings i suggested taking my 350 big bear 4x4 and try it . Well that evening it was everything from too big , to felt like it was gonna tip over , to too loud and way TOO SLOW , so i told him yea but u made it back and forth without waking me up or making me get up from my beer drinking chair and after work entertainment to come drag him out of a ankle deep mud hole . About the 3rd or 4th day is when i heard him pull back up and fly in the back door with what had to be the biggest 8 point buck ive ever seen and his 1st ever " yea dad i seen him and im gonna get him kill " . To shorten the story quite a bit in his youngness and like me ness he had been being pretty hard , either from lack of knowledge or sheer dont give a ........you know what , but he had been trying to rip back and forth on my BB like he did on his Blaster and some how the keyway had sheared off on the crankshaft and this sounds just like my situation trying to get it fixed for over a month , taking it apart and putting it back together taking it apart and putting it back together , teaching him how to take it apart and put it back together and almost giving it to someone to get it out of the way . Our neighbor , and his teenaged son found it , both our sons put it back together , and a broken rear pinion gear shaft , a head gasket , exhaust upgrades , etc , the Big B

Hey guys new here and just thought I'd chime in since I just finished doing this to my 88s . I ordered both boots from Babbittsonline without an issue . I did notice that on one bike the boot seemed a little more of a struggle to get it to slip up onto the lip of the trans/engine side . but it did go . Now I didn't notice any slack in either boot on either bike but the one I did 2nd I do remember struggling with it a bit more . Is it possible that there is just an overlooked irregularity because it seems that this has been tossed around in another forum .