I know -- you say it can't happen. All they need is gas and oil and they run forever. But it is true. I now know of the first Honda engine to make it to Honda heaven.

I blew the engine on my 1996 Honda Foreman 400. It is beyond my repair ability so I brought it to a shop the does major repairs. They have advised me that it would be very expensive to repair and that I would be better off getting a used or rebuilt replacement.

The problem is, Honda owners keep their machines forever. Where can I buy a used/rebuilt Honda engine?

Jeff

 

I blew the engine on my 99 300ex. theres #2

 

I'm sure that there are quite a few, it's just when they do blow up, people never say any thing because it gives people a bad impression of bad reliability, if when everyone has a problem they tell all. Most problems don't ever get reported.. (people like to make their company sound the best they possibly can)

 

A friend of mine blew his XR100 when we were younger, but he forgot one key component...oil!! My cousin blew his 91 250X, so I bought it and slapped a 350X motor in it, talk about a powerful quad! WOW! But I sold it for a nice profit$$$. Lata.

 

I blew my old 1971 Honda SL100 motor. The cam chain broke and that was all she wrote for that motor. Chet

 

If you didn't run it out of oil, I can't imagine the engine being in that bad of shape. If it is a major trans problem, yeah, I can see it being super expensive.

I have a gut feeling that you will be paying a couple thousand for a rebuilt, probably close to 3k for a new one.

Did he say exactly what is wrong with it?

I guess I would get a second opinion.

 

I would get a second opinion. I can't believe a 5 year old engine would blow unless normal maintenance was neglected. Heck, my 1986 125 still runs. My neighbor also has 2 machines just like yours with lots of miles on them and they still run. Something don't sound right.

 

I could see a con rod getting loose and wreaking havoc in the lower case(read tranny-countershaft-cam and main case), but the question is- unless the con rod was truely defective and snapped without over revving- that means a bearing had a while to fail, wallow out then tear the end off, this makes a lot of racket and usually takes about ten minutes- more than adequit time to shut down the motor for tow then rebuild, well before catastrophic failure.

 

This isnt quad related, but my friend blew up his brand new Honda accord [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif[/img]