Well I dusted my engine 🙁 Did a service about 250 miles ago since then I’ve been to Moab, UT for 5 days and Richfield, UT for 10. A week ago I took it to Manti, UT and first 10 minutes out, going up the canyon @ ~35mph I lost power. It returned immediately after but with a noticeable *clink* when I was on the throttle. Went about another 20 yards and lost power again. I pulled over and checked the belt it was fine. I checked the oil.. NO OIL! this was weird considering there was no sign of a leak anywhere and I didn’t notice the rig smoking at all. Temps were fine as well.

Dug into the motor this weekend and the exhaust side valve guides are surely out of spec (I’ll confirm tomorrow when my hole gage comes in). There was obviously sand sucked in as there was quite a bit on the piston heads.

I finally got down to the crank today and the PTO side Rod connector bearing is completely trashed. Rod is also scorched..