Forgotten Polaris ATV Crank Seal Replacement, Kawasaki Bayou Won't Start

it's a Polaris it's a 250 it's a 2x4 it's a two-cycle and I believe it hasn't run in 22 years howdy folks welcome back I had some moderate interest in a follow-up video on the Polaris four-wheeler so here it is so here's our new crankshaft seals let's go ahead and put those in so we've got to pull this primary clutch back off and a lot of guys were not happy with my polar method I used in the first video where I just grabbed it on the outside with a three jaw puller and hit it with the slide hammer the thing was junk I mean what is it what difference does it make so anyway we're gonna be a little more gentle on the the newer parts so I got a socket and a bolt here and then the second socket I'm just gonna fit like so that's our spacer and then I have a socket head cap screw that just happens to be the right thread to fit the internal threads in that primary clutch look at that just like store-bought there we go get our spacer / socket back out and our other spacer / socket no harm done and a lot of guys were flipping out about me putting the fluid film oil on the crankshaft guys it's coming back apart also apparently I put this belt on backwards so we're gonna fix that I don't know yeah so you see right here it's got an arrow that's supposed to point in the direction that it's supposed to rotate so I did get that wrong anyway let's get those seals out of there so as far as I can tell these seals come in from the outside use our super special puller here oh [Music] [Music] yeah oh you're gonna be that way a little bit too much mouse pee I think there we go this little gizmo is just an attachment I have from my slide hammer and then I'm using the drywall screw there's a special screw that you can use with this tool for playing seals but it's kind of it's pretty wide for these small seals so we'll use the drywall screw cool why it stinks alright the crankshaft and the crankcase are cleaned up as as best I can it's pretty rusty and you remember how many my screen here anyway we'll use an old Indian trick on this seal well Peck the inside with grease so that when we hammer on it we don't accidentally pop the spring out because we won't be able to see it once we get it installed and this one's rubber on the outside in the inside so I'm gonna put it in dry then I've got this socket this is a actually a socket made for taking the IPR valve out of 6-litre power strokes but it should work pretty good for this all right I'm happy with that I don't want to go too far you know I don't think there's a shoulder on this bore so we don't want to go too far but I also don't want it sticking out too far because this crank shafts kind of rough you know I want it to run where it used to run so it doesn't tear up this new seal okay well install our drive belt with the arrow in the right direction or the correct direction had a lot of speculation in the last video that the head was moving around on the crankcase no the whole engine is moving around inside the frame we could install the belt guard which is now mostly mouse free and all the seals are gone so it'll never be waterproof again but that's imagine they weren't very waterproof and they were new well I'm trying to remove the flywheel so I can put the seal on the other side there's a bunch of oil inside the stator cover which shouldn't be there but this flywheel does not want to come off oh I don't know about heating that there should be magnets in that I don't want to get it too hot well that's interesting I was not expecting that ha oh I was pretty sure we were gonna break it it was starting to make some really weird sounds geez that's it oh [Applause] boy no that was fun [Music] [Music] well on this side the outside of the seal is bare steel so we're going to use a little bit of this Loctite five one five flange sealer or gasket maker whatever you want to call it just to give it a little extra help like so and then again I pack the inside with grease there we go well I should have paid attention and I should have marked this stator before I took it off because these holes are actually slotted I assumed so you can change the timing but luckily it's so dirty I was able to just line it up with the old you know the old bare spots where the washers were so I'm pretty sure we're right back where we started anyway if you're doing this after watching this video mark your stator before you take it off so it looks like it had some kind of a sealer between the recoil cover and the case here so I'm just gonna use a little bit more of that five one five Loctite it's a pretty good stuff for this kind of application looks like whatever they had was pretty similar to this stuff anyway I'm sure that's just to keep water out I'm also going to put a little grease on this starter stub here just in case we ever actually tried to revive the starter give it a little bit of Lube and it does turn the starter so I don't know if the brushes are bad or why it doesn't work we can look into that someday I'm gonna put a little bit of this stable ruff stopper on there underneath the flywheel because it's keyed I mean it doesn't really doesn't really need the friction so hopefully if we ever have to take it off again it'll be a little bit easier because that was that was pretty ridiculous okay so if I remember right this is kind of tricky because of this long bolt I don't want to take the foot pedal off so I have to kind of sneak it in there we go [Music] perfect Oh yep oh I forgot to put that thing on so I'll take this bag off I hope you guys aren't watching this as some kind of an instructional video cuz I do not know what I'm doing this is for the recoil it won't work without it thought that was a little bit too easy all right let's try it again there we go good as new and guess what this brake pedal kind of almost moves now popped it with a hammer a couple times I think it might work believe it's got a plastic bushing so there's a chance that'll stay working well let's all put back together let's see if it'll run I see it's a leaking gas everywhere [Music] yeah you know well I got the Polaris running but now that your kawasaki is down I don't know what's wrong with it has fuel it has spark but it will not start so just let air into that one next that's it that's all it does hopefully you guys can see that spark plug is wet smells like fuel so it's definitely getting fuel that is not the problem well it's pretty weak I mean it's just a bad ground that doesn't seem quite right well no I lost my spark all together so let's check the primary side of the coil here realize you guys won't be able to see a whole lot but hopefully we'll be able to see this test light that should light that's not good well I'm still not sure so I checked all my powers and grounds on this ignition module that's this unit right here top power and ground everywhere so I hooked up a scope to this wire here this black with white that comes out of the come on so I got my skull picked up to this whatever they call it crankshaft sensor it must be some kind of a magnetic reluctance type sensor it's a 2 wire sensor so I should create its own voltage anyway I hooked a scope up and when I cranked it come on where's a close-up of the waveform looks pretty normal to me it's kind of got a little squiggle going on right here where it transitions from negative to positive but I don't think that's unusual so that's you know pretty standard variable reluctance sensor output I think there's nothing wrong with the sensor oh boy well this is getting annoying so guess what now it's kind of working so I don't know at this point I'm thinking maybe we got a pin fit issue on the plug for the ignition module what's the problem our door was pretty weathered and paint was scraping so I decided since we have a couple nice days in a row I would paint it better you than me I know all right what am I here for I tried to take the lock off and it got stuck which bars disagree the only one that's still in it oh okay well it's all strict up push towards me yeah we're gonna have to cut that off all right so now I have to decide if I paint the trim part or not it sounds like a big problem sounds like I'm gonna just wait and see how the boy looks fix it stop fixing it that's breaking it so now it's a matter of can we fix it without great a little hardware skirt for the fourth time in three days hey your turn the other important jobs yeah you need to finish scraping it no no no yeah yeah daddy's turn you can scrape it off scrape it okay all right no no no no that's all right [Applause] kids hey buddy what's up gotta help me deepen the connector yeah what's your helping mom screaming hey bye hey can you not move the tripods so much people are gonna get vertigo why that's what happens when things move around quickly the forklift maybe you can drive this four-wheeler if I ever get it fixed alright that's done it's gonna work it's gotta run before you can drive it kiddo [Music] you're supposed to be showing this test light right I mean can you see it that looks exactly the same that doesn't seem very good yeah okay I don't know well I don't really know what we just did but we now have spark have you been messing up the camera that's interesting must be pretty good I without anyway face here's our stunt driver got all your safety gear on this time sure we won't get any comments about this everything here you push the pedal down it won't grind [Music] [Applause] oh yeah that's our first time son high-range the older one well yeah you won't really crash just kind of make our neighbors make our neighbors man Holly Park it I guess back inside the shop [Music] [Music] yep fair enough cool turn the gas off up is reserved down as normal that's alright Hufflepuff what do we think we do not encourage Harry Potter nerd ISM on the channel we do not we actively discourage it how's the nearest in the kitchen so I wouldn't know cuz I'm a purist not tainted by Harry Potter right pop yeah we'll make our own house won't we buddy alright I'm going to ask my experienced stunt rider to help me do a little comparison between the the Polaris and the Kawasaki so this is a Polaris 250 2x4 or Trail Boss whatever you want to call it and then this is my Kawasaki by you 220 both were DOA when we got them both running and driving now which one do you like better it's super yeah it's scary fast and yeah so to make the curve like the turns in her yard is kind of typical and I thought I was going straight into a cornfield it is like with the two-stroke engine and then the torque converter it's just massive torque things like almost impossible to keep in a straight line but what I have noticed so first of all the Polaris is just overall a bigger machine and it's a lot more comfortable for me to ride the Kawasaki is kind of small for me smaller and it doesn't go as fast which is I mean for our yard it's probably better because we don't really have anywhere to go I feel like the actual the actual speeds probably the same but the acceleration is so much more on the Polaris and then the Polaris suspension is way better I can only get to second gear we got to work on your shifting so the Kawasaki it just has like swing arm suspension kind of like an old Volkswagen so it really doesn't corner very well but the Polaris has this McPherson strut suspension which seems like a gimmick but it really does work a lot better and how did it ruin your pants the guards that's an important consideration folks might ruin your pants I like the that the Polaris has the flipped wells or the platforms instead of just having the pegs so I always get worried that my big long feet are gonna get hooked on something anyway you know they're both similar vintage machines but they're they're quite different the Kawasaki in my opinion is a lot more sophisticated the engine is a lot smoother and having the shaft drive it's a lot a lot more refined whereas the players you know it's just kind of like an old farm tractor it's off chain drive and stuff I did learn some things about the Polaris though the brake here which does work with the foot pedal it's actually yeah it's actually on the primary side of the transmission so you can actually use that to stop the gearbox in order to shift it so it's basically like a clutch brake also which I did not know so I do learn things from the comments like that I put the belts on backwards and that the the brake is used to shift so yeah I am I'd say the big thing with the Kawasaki though I am NOT impressed with their wiring that's basically I've had to redo every single wiring connector in the harness well I mean that's just age and your vibration I guess but you know Kawasaki is this is a company that makes industrial robots like if they can't figure out how to do wiring who can it just they really phoned it in on these ATVs yeah that's right the Polaris is just a four wheeled snowmobile which is fine because you end up having a lot of parts that are similar between the Polaris and between the ATV and the pole and the you want a snowmobile okay hold on let me think if have you thought this through what is that hold on hold on what's the prerequisite for snow Oh what do you hate I hate being outside and it doesn't matter if it's cold or hot I hate being outside how can we possibly be married good thing I have a kid all right how are we gonna race yeah we're thinking about selling I think we're probably gonna get rid of the Polaris and keep the Kawasaki it's a little bit smaller easier to manage and unless you know likely to kill our nephews so yeah I'm gonna fix the brakes and then we'll probably we'll probably sell it so okay is that it for our comparing contrast [Music] okay okay that's it thanks guys for watching well you guys want some bonus footage you probably thought we evict adalah mice from this four-wheeler but guess what there's more they're simple is that

Channel: Watch Wes Work

Views: 256,231

Keywords: polaris, atv, 4 wheeler, quad, bike, barn, barn find, forgotten, abandoned, left, neglected, mice, mouse, engine, 2 stroke, 2 cycle, wiring, spark, will it run, will it start, fix, mechanic, repair, revival, clutch, drive, belt, eaten, dirty, torque converter, torque convertor, test, old, trail boss, seal, scope, ignition, diagram, kawasaki, connector, pin fit

Id: yyoMC6BID-M

Length: 36min 10sec (2170 seconds)

Published: Sat Jul 04 2020