all right here's my honda foreman i've had it on this trailer for like a month or so the weather
was cold but now it's getting warmer let's get this baby unwrapped and uh brought back to the
shed
all right we got a bunch of stuff moved around i think we have enough space to get
the newest edition the honda foreman it's a 2001 s so it's a foot shift not the electric shift
and i think it's full-time four-wheel drive that's in decent shape everything's there it looks like
plastics are a bit rough stickers are a bit faded but that's all cosmetic
this is the first one i bought that has engine issues so the owner says it doesn't
run he was driving it and it just died and he had one of his friends look at it and
the friend said it needs a motor overhaul so don't exactly know what that means but
you know i got only got it i paid 750 for this so i even if i can't get her going it i shouldn't
take a loss so let's uh get this in the shed and dive into it yeah before i really get into it i
kind of want to see how many miles are on this thing it's kind of hard to tell
so because that screen is all scratched up so i've got some sandpaper i'm just going to sand on that
see if i can make that a little clearer all right i just got the screen all cleared up let's see
you know it says three hundred 11 forty two miles oh boy that's quite a lot all right well uh let's
see if we can get this thing running let's check for spark and then uh compression and
then go from there all right i got the spark plug out let's just see if it's got spark
all right well step one it has spark so that's good
all right i got a compression tester hooked up so got the key on i'm just gonna
push the starter button and put the throttle wide open and let's see what we can get here
oh goodness it's like less than 30 so i don't know the specs but i imagine that is way too low
all right i got the carb off got the gas tank off some of the covers off so there's
the air box right there so i don't know i think i'm just going to start digging into
the engine you know that compression seems super low so imagine it needs a top end so
let's see all right i was looking online they say they do a wet compression test
so you just dump some oil down the hole and then if the reading increases then it's probably you
know worn cylinder walls or piston so okay i got my assistant here once you just start it and see
what happens you gotta turn the key right so yeah it increased a bunch so that's over 60.
this is probably a warren anything need a new top end on that thing yeah yeah
all right well we'll start taking it apart see what we need to do all right i think i'm
just going to take that cover off that should be where the valves are so i'm just going to
see where the valves are measuring and see if they need to be adjusted at all
all right sorry i removed that cover right there i don't know if you can see but there's
a t right there and then it lines up with that little notch on the side so let's line up that
t with the notch and then you should be in a top dead center and then you can use your
feeler gauge um i think the specs are .006 so i'm going to slide that in there and see where they
are at all right sticking my gauge in there i got the 0.006 it's just like really loose in there so
i don't know maybe that could be the issue i'll try adjusting that so i think
you just adjust that nut right there and then tighten it up and then tighten it back down so
i'm gonna mess with that see if i can get them adjusted correctly
all right that's actually really easy to do you just loosen that nut put your gauge
underneath and then tighten this top screw so it slides under there easily and then just
tighten that nut down so they're both inspect now so um i think i'm gonna just
put the cover on and then give it a compression test and see if it changed at all
all right new compression test done still under 30 so really nothing has changed so
i think we're actually going to take this thing apart and try to do like a top end so
let's get that cover back off all right i got the exhaust off
kind of just pushed it to the side i don't know if you have to take it all the way off but
if we have to i will um pop that top cover off then i'm just going to start
taking bolts off until i get down to that cylinder and then we can take a look let's go
me
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all right i got that top head off really wasn't too hard um here's kind of what it looks like
here's the underneath so it's like one valve is darker than the other
i don't know what that means and the head looks pretty dark so it's gonna work on getting the
that jug off and then uh we'll take a look all right just to finish it off there's two
more 10 millimeters up there i just popped those out and i just kind of there we go
all right at the tip and out that's awesome all right here we are the next day i ended up getting
that piston off who would have thought that was going to be the hardest part of this whole process
you know taking the engine apart took about 45 minutes but then getting that pissing off took
the whole rest of the night so tried a whole bunch of different things to try to get it off
um what ended up working is i put this 9 16 bolt through on one side it fit perfectly in there
and then i used a bolt on this side and then pounded it out that way
you know i tried everything i almost got my angle grinder out to try to cut it off
i'm glad i didn't end up doing that but yeah here the circlips i popped off right there so
yeah i was surprising that that was the hardest part is getting that piston off so
i got a new piston and jug ordered so here's what that cylinder looks like in there one side seems
okay but the other side is really scored up so same with this piston here that side is
really scored up so something must have happened in the the rings were all stuck on one side so
i got the new parts ordered so i'll probably just end this video here
and then um next video i'll try to get everything reassembled and put back
together and hopefully get this thing running so thanks for watching and see in the next one