Ejwill

I don’t know about simple, I’ve worked on everything from hockey choppers to nuclear reactors, I’ve been able to work on my 2007 foreman 500 4x4 es, but only with the help of some great people here on Quad Crazy. You can’t just jump in there not having a background in quad repair. The people on Quad crazy make it possible to get the job done. But you are right they are tough long lasting machines. Ride On!!

Harley’s have to mark their territory.

He, don’t kill me or quit helping me but I’m pretty sure I screwed up . I may have set the piston with an f in the window instead of the t. I couldn’t see that well without getting on the floor and with oil on the fly wheel I think I screwed up. I got out of my chair and took a swab and cleaned the oil off the mark and it was a f mark it’s really hard to tell sitting in my chair and it’s hard to get back in it by myself. Can I tear it back down and remove the piston, be sure to have it on the t. And reattach the piston. I’m not sure about tearing the front of that motor off. I checked the valves with it definitely on the t the intake valve barely moved, but the exhaust valve was very loose. Sorry for making a dumb mistake.

Yeah, the electric things are what bothers me. You get up into some money when all that goes bad. And I don’t think I have what you need to check all that crap. But I’ll stick with it until we get too expensive or run out of things to try. Thanks for hanging in there.

I checked it it was 180, I guess that’s alright. Now what? If you give up that’s ok, because I’m about ready to. It been a real pain in the arse!!

Ok, will try that.

I did like you said, I’m getting some pressure coming out of the spark plug hole . I checked for spark and it had spark. I’m having to charge battery now I left the switch on and ran the battery down. Is there some way the spark plug could be firing at the wrong time. Just guessing. Thanks for your help.

GW, I did like you said and turned the fly wheel when the Allen wrench was at the top the t was in the window. The under line may have been a hair below the marks on the window threads but the t itself was pretty much in line I say pretty much because it depends on how you look at it through the hole. I did it several times and when the Allen wrench was at the highest the t was in the inspection port. If that’s good enough what else could it be. I just don’t understand how it ran good for a while then just quit. Won’t even crank it acts like to me it 180 out when it should be pulling gas into the carburetor it’s blowing it out. But the tdc is in line or so close it’s hard to tell. AI on a search said it could possibly be a crankcase sensor or a cam shaft sensor issue causing it to fire in the chamber and blow it back toward the air filter. I have no idea what to try next

I got it on tdc and I stuck an Allen wrench in the spark plug hole and from the outside of the housing it was about 1 7/16” to the piston. That’s from the outside of the shell to the top of the piston. I don’t know if it should be closer or not the valves were loose, I could wiggle them and pick it up and down.

Ok, I’ll try it your way to avoid all that with the clutches.Is there a way to correct it if it’s not tdc? Without taking the top end down again?

GW, pardon my ignorance, but where is the cam inspection cover. Thanks for your help.

Damn you are smart and beautiful. You are so knowledgeable. I never would have ever thunk it, don’t guess thunk is a word . And to think I gradgiated 6th grade when I was 16 and went to work in the cotton mill. You would think I would know all that stuff. I’m sorry but if a honey bee gets that close to my eyes he’s or she’s swatted.

I hunt off of my wheeler, my grandsons tell me it’s too loud. But I’ve killed deer off of it. A lot of times I hunt field roads or woods roads and fields I just figure out where I want to sit and usually I ride around behind my spot so I don’t disturb the cover in front of where I’m going to sit. I have a good bit of camouflage netting I put over my wheeler and string it up where I don’t have enough cover. There’s a lot of farming going on so get there early and they seem to not be bothered by the noise. I’ve killed many deer like that. Good luck this season get a big one.

Sorry for my lack of knowledge, but how do I do that and what would cause that?

I rebuilt the top end on my 2007 Honda Trx500fe. It ran fine right after the rebuilt. But now when I try to crank it it blows Bach through the carburetor. I held my hand over the opening for the intake air and it blew gas back on my hand. Can figure out what happened all of a sudden. It was cranking and was able to ride it running through all the gears. Now can get it to crank just blowing gas back to the air filter. Need help again. Starting to think I should have walked away from this one.