It will keep running. You are just causing exessive wear after ~100h

That pretty sick! Full rebuild and another 300 hours fuck it 😂

I believe this 100%, my buddy had a 1996 Yamaha warrior that hadn’t gotten an oil change since 1998, only oil filter changes and oil top offs (if even that). It was running just beautifully with spec compression levels in 2020 and the oil was a slight brown, still transparent with light I swear on it.

Im guessing theres been at least 1 ring change tho. Rule of thumb, piston every other ring change. Agree with ur air filter comment

278 hrs lying like hell 🤣🤣🤣🤣

The reality is in the form of high cycle fatigue life - damage and wear to aluminum is not able to be seen. You can google this if you like to get a basic understanding. But when you stress aluminum over and over eventually it breaks - aka the wrist pin can rip out of it - or the skirt can collapse, or the top of the ring land breaks off, or the center of the piston cracks etc etc. While for most users this wont happen because the engineers also design in whats called safety factor - usually the a factor of 3 - aka 15 hours in the manual means 45 hours in reality - in some extreme use cases 15 is actually too many hours. If you fired up your bike, put it on the rev limiter for 15 hours straight - it would need pistons frequently. As a company, they absolve themselves of liability by putting in the requirements the wrost case scenario for replacements. In the serious racing world - what my company deals with - 5 hours on a piston is our intervals. For slightly lessor builds its up to 20. With the racers who hire us - and how hard they are on parts - this is a necessity to prevent failures. It's less expensive to put in a 250 dollar part and garuntee a successful weekend of racing than it is to show up, have a failure at an outdoor national or an amatuer championship or an sx race. Imagine the expense involved of just showing up to one of said races - so in that case a piston is extremely cheap. Same for other parts - vs the cost of travel, entry, training, trainers, and entire lifestyle predicated around doing well on that one weekend.

Yeah every 15h 200 bucks that unnecessary I think and if you trail ride you won’t have to unless they break or you ride it hard

I totally agree, those hours seam spot on for most ‘normal’ riders. I haven’t had any issues with people who change pistons at 50 hours.

50-60 hours is pretty ok . my 250 had 100 hours piston and timining chain. usually if top end rebuild do but not before 50-60 hours. 15 hours piston replace is 100% maximum power. I am happy over 90% also

no. every 15 hours is literarily for the guys you watch race on tv. if your a weekend warrior you can go 100s of hours

No idea sorry!

No definitely not, for lighter use you can let them go longer!

I also checked cylinder ovalization, valve stem straightness, head warp but it’s too much of nothing actually happening to put in a video, its not suppose to be a step by step guide but hope you enjoyed it👍

Deglazing is basically the cleaning of the hone channels/marks to allow for proper lubrication. Now on a steel sleeve these channels get filled or smoothed because the wall material is relatively soft. Compare that to a Nikasil lining, the material is far harder, and takes a lot longer to get worn down. I have seen 80’000 mile engines with the original Nikasil hone marks clearly visible! So on a steel sleeve, it’s worth running a slight hone through the bore, if not to removing material, to clean the channels. But a hone will not touch a Nikasil bore. You can only clean it. Some use scotch brite, but on a 50 hour Nikasil cylinder, just a good clean with soapy water and re-oil is needed. Which is always done after the gasket surfaces and cleaned.

Deglazing is essential

Definitely! Good servicing is a part of that.

They definitely borrow ideas and are getting closer to the ‘perfect’ blueprint.

Unfortunately not! Wish it was though

@@Mike_abel its still a good one sir. Thank for the video

@@olivertan1786 Glad you enjoyed it!

Dude I’ve seen ktm do 100 hours ZERO maintenance no air filters no oil no washing unless it was dunked under water ktm is on a whole other level. The jap bikes just keep getting worse and worse trying to keep up. My buddy has a 21 and a 07 and loves his 07 so much more that the 21 is just a back up bike he uses that only gives him issues. Same with Yamahas having trash reliability long term and suzuki basically said there no point trying to make these bikes better other than spending more money and adding more ridiculous parts to try to make the job the rider is suppose to do easier but ultimately the machine and it’s capabilities are virtually identical.

@Chris Villarreal that Savage I like most brands tbh honda is my favourite tbh but there price is mad yea I think yam have gone down hill my 05 must of had 250+hrs no issue my ktm never had to problems at all that wad 14 only thing battery was shit but run spot on

@@sxfwilson6603 yeah man I got them all literally 125 250 450 two strokes and 4 strokes the best bikes I have are the two strokes they’re just bullet proof and they’re good but these newer 4 strokes have so much shit you just wanna get rid of them after 30 hours cus you know shits going to get complicated down the road

or u just dont know wtf ur doing

seems like a you problem buddy haha!

And u had 2 of them man u really screwed that one up guy

i think you are junk xD

Honda is the best