I have recently talk to a guy like a week ago about my 94 Mojave it wont kick start when cold you would have to compression start it once it was warm it ran great you could shut it off but for no longer than 20 to 30 minutes once it is warm and like you stall it will start up first kick without even trying anyways he said it was my valve clearance i did everything he told me to I set them to .008 like I was told made sure that the t mark on the flywheel was in line with the index grove after all that it started up 3rd kick i ran it for like 2 hours Saturday and i noticed a slight tick when it was running i didn't think much of it then after a lunch brake it didn't want to kick start once again i was a little pissed so we compression started and it ran fine and then i let it sit over night the next day still didn't want to kick start so i compression started it again and drove it for an hour and the little tick then turned to a knock and the more i was driving it it was increasing in loudness so then i figured i would stopped before i broke it so then i let it cool down and took the head off to find out that the lobes for the intake and exhaust had very deep ridges on them and the compression release thing dug some metal out of the engine block also the valve clearance had once again became tight i will put some pictures on to show you what I'm talking about but what could I have done wrong or what could have went wrong sorry for the long post im only 15 and new to atvs so Thanks for the help its highly appreciated[img]C:\Documents and Settings\Casey\My Documents\DSC01235.JPG[/img][img]C:\Documents and Settings\Casey\My Documents\DSC01236.JPG[/img][img]C:\Documents and Settings\Casey\My Documents\DSC01237.JPG[/img][img]C:\Documents and Settings\Casey\My Documents\DSC01238.JPG[/img][img]C:\Documents and Settings\Casey\My Documents\DSC01241.JPG[/img][img]C:\Documents and Settings\Casey\My Documents\DSC01243.JPG[/img][img]C:\Documents and Settings\Casey\My Documents\DSC01244.JPG[/img]

 

Did it stop oiling for some reason. Low on oil or oil filter installed wrong?