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Hello! I recently purchased a 1987 Trail Boss 259 4x4, it had been used for plowing and then passed around and mostly sat for the last 20 + years. PO said the oil injector was not working, so for a while I was prefixing. After much tweaking I got it running, really good too! Recently came across...

Recently picked up a 2000 Scrambler 400 2x4 that seemed to be running great. I wanted to go through it and do some general maintenance and while I’m a pretty lousy mechanic, the interwebs had me feeling confident enough to - swap clutch (old one felt like it took too long to start moving)...

Hello everyone, I’ve owned this 03 trailblazer 250 for a while and it’s been running great until last year when my brother was driving down the road and he said it died on him. He then said he it started back up and he drove it further (yeah I told him that wasn’t the best thing to do) but then...

I have a 2005 Polaris predator 90 that my 9 year old has ridden the tires off of. It began to smoke a lot last month and began running bad. It finally got to the point I had to cup my hand on and off over the air intake to get the quad back to the house. I did a compression test and it came...

Hi All, I am new to this site and also new to quading. This will be my 1st and I haven't riden one yet. I have been riding dirt and street bikes almost 40 years. I picked up this 2001 Magnum 500 with about 1300mi, 173hrs, that had low compression. Took the head off and found that the Cam...

Hi All, 1st off thanks to all of you posters that I have already learned so much from. I am new to this site, and new to quading. Actually I've never really riden one yet. I picked up this 2001 Magnum 500 with about 1300mi, 174hrs that had low compression. Took the head off and found that the...