well that place in wi can renikasil your jugg back to factory specs for like 200.00 and new piston is 260.00 and rings area bout 45 and base gasket 11 head gasket 45 total= 561 roughly unless you need headwork, my dealer did my head all new seats and two new intake valves for 225. but even then you are only talking 786. if you do it all your self, just my .02

 

ok, i just got off the phone with him again, he said the labor would be around $275. but the rebuild consist of pistons, rings, valves, flushing the engine, and i think that was about it...sound fair?

 

You could probably find a good jug and piston in whats in your garage for a bit less. alot of guys have went to big bores so theres a few laying around. Have it honed and new rings. Like Choose said pull the cylinder and see what you got to work with. Alot of times performance parts can be about the same or less than replacement OEM parts if you know where to look. Headwork can get spendy real fast so save where you can. Just my .02

 

I don't think that it's a bad price.... They are probably getting you a stock piston/ring set and gaskets.

I have had GREAT success w/RW pistons and service. Check with Elliot at RW and see what he can do for you. Might as well go with the 11.5:1 piston. From the piston up is a different story.... You'll start a huge debat when you talk about under-bucket vs. over-bucket. RW, feels that it's the ONLY way to go. HPR feels that it's a danger and that underbucket is the only way to go. I have had NO problems with my stock style over-bucket and I run NOS.

Kind of a Holley Vs. Carter or Ford vs. Chevy. Both sides will tell you exactly why the other's claims are bad. I think that the stock style works great. But that is me. I mention this stuff because when and if you change pistons, you'll probably want cams. Springs will be needed when you do that, and that's when the bucket issue fires up. Do your own research and see what you find.

I just did a rebuilt on an 04 and not counting my labor, my buddy put 1500 into a CDI, TM45, Piston, Cam, springs, air filter. Pretty cheap really. That type of build coming off of a running bike takes me about 6 hours - give or take a half.

His bike is now faster then mine (not using NOS of course). I put a real nice cam package together for his size and weight. Once the gearing was fine-tuned, he was hauling A$$.

What ever you do, get a compression check done, and then find out what jets are in the carb. Sounds like if the compression is good, the carb might be a problem.

Let us know.

 

Shim over works fine with most cams. Shim under has to be used on the bigger aggressive cams so the lobe profile can take advantage of the wider surface area.

If oil in the air box is coming from the crankcase vent it probably means the rings are letting cylinder pressure into the crank case.

 

agreed on the bucket issue. Just make sure the what's in the box is oil not a gas/oil combo of some sort.

Compression Check, Compression Check, Compression check.

 

SOLUTION! I had my TM45 put in at the same shop, the mechanic said the reason the rings got toasted was the carb was not tuned right, said it was way rich, or way lean, dont remember, cell phone was cutting out, but then i pointed out that his shop put in my carb, after he found out they did in fact put my carb in, he said the mechanic that put it in got fired blaw blaw blaw, a few choice words back and forth, someone else gets on the phone tells me it was their fault, their fixing it. problem solved for FREE! but thanks for all the help and replies, i will know what to do if i ever decide to upgrade. thanx again for all the answers, i woulda been in a fix if they wouldnt have warrantied their work...

 

Lucky you on them standing behind it. Nice of them to admit it and stand behind it, almost unheard of in this day and age of passing the buck[img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif[/img]

 

I agree Crazy. You hardly ever hear of that. Congrats for that. Hope your up and going sooner than you think [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-wink.gif[/img]

 

Yeah that's almost unheard of these days. Heck when I bought mine, the guy told me he was getting the title.... Just so happens he got divorced with his wife and disappeared soon afterward. If I ever find him...