My friend has an 01 raptor, 700 big bore kit, big carb, race cams, all decked out. well he was racing it, and it lifted the cylinder, pulled the bolts out. would this be possible to heli coil? or should I Let a machine shop do it? I can buy it from him right now for $2200, its in great shape.

 

Wow! it lifted the rods out of the case your saying???

 

id say let a machine shop deal with it or buy a new engine....something went wrong if that happened

 

Post the question in the Raptor Forum on this website:

http://www.bluetraxx.com/

I have a Raptor 660 and they have been great help to me over there.

 

make sure the trannys been redone on it. the 01's were prone to having them go out. but if its built like you say its prob already been done.

 

Yea the bolts pulled out of the case...

 

time to buy a Honda

 

yeah that helps

 

I dont personaly like the raptors, usualy called craptors. they have alot of internal plastic gears. I like my LTR.

 

Get a machine shop to do it. Hopefully they will be able to. If not you may be looking at some new cases

 

Yea I can get a new case for under $600... just an option

 

As long as your comfortable diving into engines and have a press, impact wrench or pullers, and assembly lube you will be good to go

Only problem is if it happened once, it is bound to happen again

 

yea Im not scared to do anything with engines, obviously lol look at my truck, but ill give it a shot

 

If you do so decide to by the raptor, you have to get a special yamaha rtv sealer for when you put the two cases back together. The is no gasket due to the tight tolerances(sp).

 

i wouldnt helicoil it. get a machine shop to open the holes up and rethread them and put stronger bolts in. but if it happened once, more than likely will happen again. idk id buy a predator lol.