First gear is gone on my Foreman. ’07 model with 1200 hours. Engine ran fine other than first gear.
Everything has to come apart to remedy the situation. I have the shop manual, plenty of tools and experience with engines and sequential gearboxes on racecars. No experience on bike engines.
I have the engine out, the cylinder and piston off and the front case cover off.
So far the piston rings are out of limit.
My questions are:
1) What "gotchas" should I look out for.
2) I haven’t spec’d the piston. If the piston is good should I just replace the rings? Should I hone the cylinder?
Any suggestions/recommendations would be appreciated.
Thanks.