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westie
6th September 2008, 09:08
Managed to blow the engine up on my crf yesterday. The conrod went and pushed out the cases, so its all fucked:doh:

Anyone know whwere I may be able to source a lower end and or cases?

Any help much appreciated.

tommorth
6th September 2008, 11:12
ouch
cant help but have you any pics?

barty5
6th September 2008, 12:28
check the states Ebay

westie
6th September 2008, 15:52
ouch
cant help but have you any pics?

Shoulda taken some but have dismantled the engine now. Will take some of the cases. Was pretty funny sitting on top of a disintegrating engine.

westie
6th September 2008, 15:56
check the states Ebay

Good spotting. Thanks for the email that guy has the two engines crf450r and the crf450x you emailed me about. If the engine stays around the price it is now I'll try and get it.
I checked ebay yesterday and couldn't find those two listings.

barty5
6th September 2008, 16:05
what year is it there was also a couple of others but they were like 1800 plus

westie
6th September 2008, 17:32
what year is it there was also a couple of others but they were like 1800 plus

Its an 02. With the exchange rate I'd be better off buying a late model bike from here rather than buying those other ones.
Still there's hope with the ones you showed me today
Cheers

CRF119
9th September 2008, 10:45
I rekon buy a new CRF and find a CR500 motor for your old frame. :Punk: A bit of work involved but would be dam cool.

theblacksmith
10th September 2008, 00:11
Have the cases gone too bad for a repair weld? I tig welde my kx crankase and it came up mint - got it to seal perfectly as well - got those pics?

westie
10th September 2008, 07:16
Have the cases gone too bad for a repair weld? I tig welde my kx crankase and it came up mint - got it to seal perfectly as well - got those pics?

Crankcase parts were equally two metres either side of the bikes. Would have been an impossible jigsaw puzzle. Cheers for the idea tho.


I rekon buy a new CRF and find a CR500 motor for your old frame. :Punk: A bit of work involved but would be dam cool.

That'd be nice. Was going to just part it out and forget about it. But this came up.
May have found a complete lower engine unit for $360. With most of the important parts from my old engine for spares if anything needs replacing. Fingers crossed.
Still need a cylinder unit tho. Cos mine has a big conrod shaped dent in it.

theblacksmith
12th September 2008, 22:17
[QUOTE=westie;1723996]Crankcase parts were equally two metres either side of the bikes. Would have been an impossible jigsaw puzzle. Cheers for the idea tho.

Jeepers - you had an explosion mate! Jigsaw puzzle allright.Hope you get some luck sorting a motor out.

mattwood
12th September 2008, 22:22
Crankcase parts were equally two metres either side of the bikes. Would have been an impossible jigsaw puzzle. Cheers for the idea tho.

Shit, hope you werent sitting on it when that happened?

westie
13th September 2008, 08:19
Shit, hope you werent sitting on it when that happened?

Yep sure was.

4stroke
13th September 2008, 14:44
you could buy my 07 crf 450.
http://www.trademe.co.nz/Browse/Listing.aspx?id=176322706

westie
13th September 2008, 23:07
you could buy my 07 crf 450.
http://www.trademe.co.nz/Browse/Listing.aspx?id=176322706

Would you take my bits of crf 450 for a trade in? :dodge:

Definately learnt my lesson and will buy a bike like yours next time.

Bought a lower end 450 engine today for $630. Have a complete ish set of spares too so should be good once assembled. Bit of a project but ah well.

Just looking forward to getting dirty again!!!!!!!

cheese
14th September 2008, 21:31
you could buy my 07 crf 450.
http://www.trademe.co.nz/Browse/Listing.aspx?id=176322706

Give you 4k.... LOL

westie
17th September 2008, 19:33
ouch
cant help but have you any pics?

As promised.

edit. morcs was here.

4stroke
17th September 2008, 19:47
ouch and fk me, are 2 words that come to mind!:confused::confused:

clmintie
17th September 2008, 20:43
And you were sitting on it at the time?...... Will you still be able to breed?????:shit:

westie
18th September 2008, 08:29
Sure made me recall the words of tuner at spectrum motorcycles.
I'll only sell bikes that have been through our shop and we know inside out, he said. Should have bought one of the deals he offered.

Still the rm 125 is going and fun to ride.
And the lower engine unit is on its way from england for the 450.

cheese
18th September 2008, 10:09
FUCK!!!! That is amazing. Was it revving hard at the time?

barty5
18th September 2008, 10:36
that would have you changin yah undies with that letting go at speed.

Hemex
18th September 2008, 13:47
that would have you changin yah undies with that letting go at speed.

Hope the undies are all that would have changed..lol

westie
18th September 2008, 17:13
Was only at mid revs from idle gave it a blip(3000rpm?) and it went crack bang:2guns:
Sitting in the garage unfortunately. Nothing too spectacular. Thought I'd give it one last idle before tearing it down and re building it. HMMMMMM

4stroke
18th September 2008, 18:52
Sure made me recall the words of tuner at spectrum motorcycles.
I'll only sell bikes that have been through our shop and we know inside out, he said. Should have bought one of the deals he offered.

Still the rm 125 is going and fun to ride.
And the lower engine unit is on its way from england for the 450.

my crf will proberly end up at spectrum if no one buys it, trade it in on the husqvarna.

Hemex
18th September 2008, 21:09
my crf will proberly end up at spectrum if no one buys it, trade it in on the husqvarna.

was at spectrum today and Grant was telling me you were in yday.. You trading it in for the husky 501?? Nice!!!