im considering a revamped 03 cannibal (still new and motor was fully redone with all the atk reliability/450 kits )

exactly how much maintenance is involved? oil changes are obvious no matter what the quad, (and i do know the dale has like 5 places to drain and two filters)

but besides that what other maintenance is required?

also, what kind of money does it cost to do an oil change? i know it has to be synthetic, but do you have to run a super high dollar syn? how much are filters? (are all the stock filters paper/throw aways?)

 

Other maintenence? It helps to do a checkup on the fuel system once in a while to make sure the idle is set right and throttle position sensor is adjusted to specs. It takes a couple minutes to hook up the laptop or home pc. Other than that check the tires ,chain ect . My biggest problem with my speed was the constant replacement of weak headlight bulbs.

 

On oil changes, I run plain old Mobil 1 15w-50 syn in mine. A lot of people have criticized me over this, but I know plenty of other people who run it too and I recently pull the head and the top end looked brand new NO WEAR. So until I screw up a motor due to friction probs, I'm buying my oil from Wal-Mart and not this $8 a quart stuff. Secondly on the oil filters. For the engine oil filter, pay a little more now and get a stainless steel filter that you can reuse. Chaging oil a lot leads to a lot of money in paper filters. Again many people say these are not safe and clog up to easy, but if you clean it when you change you oil you shouldn't have to worry about it and even on extended runs I've never seen anyone have a problem with one. Not sure if anyone here is against these ideas, but I just wanted to address that you don't have to spend a fortune on special oils and stuff.

The only other thing I have ever had a problem with is overheating. Change to a good coolant like engine ice as soon as you get it and if you trail ride a lot, you may want to look into something to protect the radiator because it does get clogged a lot the way they have it. I solved this by running OMF scoops and louvers and made a custom bracket to set the louvers about an 1 1/2 in. off the radiator. Works great and even after an extremely muddy race I rarely have anything on the radiator.