justin_o_guy2
Serious Thumper
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What happened?
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East Texas, 1/2 dallas/la.
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Don't allow this rare problem sour you on these bikes. We have guys with over 100,000 miles on theirs. Someone already said that if someone over torqued a particular part inside there, it would crack.. Sounds to me like someone was in there and screwed up. Maybe even Heard it crack and decided to sell it. If you bought it from an individual, I'd consider going to visit,, don't act like it died. Just go talk, ostensibly for more maintenance history, ask about simple things, like sometimes the first start of the day, it needs choked,, once he's comfortable, talk about maybe one day, you might have to go into the engine, ask if he has the shop manual..
Feel for the right time to ask him
Did you kinda want to puke when you heard the sprocket crack?
Or
I heard it takes some real care in some places in there.
I'd probably wanna puke if I heard that sprocket crack..
IDK what you have in it, but if you get lucky, you can get a motor for four hundred bucks.
The ignition changes some years, getting that right is important and some of these guys know and of that by heart.
I'd hate to see you buy a crap motor..
Ya know, if you got another Savage, you could ride, enjoy having a bike and as you learn about these things, keep your eyes open and see about getting a motor and fix your dead one. Then, with two, you could start playing around with one. Most people decide they want to change things a little. Get one like you want it, maybe sell the other?
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