HI all. i looked on other forums and could not really find an exact answer for this.
My neighbor, who is incredibly hot headed 🙂 gave up on his 2000 Recon because it started smoking and he just gave it to me. thinking in was a piston, i rebuilt the top end (replaced the piston, rings, cylinder gasket and head gaskets and also rebuilt the carb). Its runs great BUT….after everything heats up there is a discernible "tap" that develops in the top end. No smoke, no loss of power…just a tap that sounds like a piston tap. I have a 2004 recon and it does this kinda sorta slightly but nothing to the level that the 2000 is doing. i have about 2 hours on the rebuild. any idea what i did wrong? or what it may be? Ill try to post a video/sound file later today
My neighbor, who is incredibly hot headed 🙂 gave up on his 2000 Recon because it started smoking and he just gave it to me. thinking in was a piston, i rebuilt the top end (replaced the piston, rings, cylinder gasket and head gaskets and also rebuilt the carb). Its runs great BUT….after everything heats up there is a discernible "tap" that develops in the top end. No smoke, no loss of power…just a tap that sounds like a piston tap. I have a 2004 recon and it does this kinda sorta slightly but nothing to the level that the 2000 is doing. i have about 2 hours on the rebuild. any idea what i did wrong? or what it may be? Ill try to post a video/sound file later today
