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I'm coming up on 100 miles and the glove box book and the Helms manual both say check the valves. Or, I guess it's I for inspect.

I'm planning on doing all my own work so I don't intend to take it into the dealer and have them charge $500 (or anything) and then check the valves by listening to it.

However the book says replace the o rings around the 2 adjustment ports or holes and where the top dead center is observed.

I went to the dealer and they only could get the two end ones and then it would take a week.

So I need, as I needed anyway, to find a Honda ATV discount online supplier.

I know they are out there for Honda cars. I can get car parts sent to my door with a discount that, after shipping is less than the dealer will charge.

Does anyone have a parts supplier for Honda ATV parts. The nearest dealer to me is 50 miles each way, and they seem to have no parts in stock (unless that is their way of steering people into their service department.)

I probably don't really need to replace those o rings, but I'd like to have them around for when I do.

Thanks
dc

 

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from MY experience, there is NO single place that is always the best priced,, you just have to shop around for the best prices, if price alone if your goal
some times I rather pay a tad for for a part from a company that had great reputation for fast delivery, in stock parts and well, trust worthy!
so many places these days to buy from, and prices on the same part , you have to at least look, many larger online stores will price match if you find it cheaper, so pays to look around IMO

 

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My favorite online OEM parts retailer has become rockymountainatvmc.com. Partzilla and Honda East Toledo are alternates only because RMATV is usually cheaper than Partzilla AND way faster to ship parts that are in stock. Partzilla has the best parts fiche (with interchange lists) of them all though.

 

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Thanks
I got my boxes from Rocky Mountain and they shipped free overnight.
I had stopped in to ask them about tire mounting and they told me they use dyna beads for balance (this on a motorcycle) which I don't like. Also, at that time I was shopping for an atv and they don't sell any at that location, only service, so ...
But they priced matched on the boxes and free shipped fast.

So I'll try them.

The dealer where I bought the Rancher 420 sold me the wrong oil filters. So I have to take those back. Now I know which ones are the right ones, but at first ...

I bought the Helm book on the quad but it doesn't list torque value for oil drain plug.

Anyone know that, and where it's found? In the Helm book they are listed at the end of any section, but not for oil change. ???
dc

 

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I don't know torque values,
but I do know a LOT of folks over tighten them and strip them too, so go easy!
and this is also why I tend to always buy a HONDA service manual, they or all I have had, had values for torque spec's!

NEXT< no one I know balances a ATV tire, and the reason is, tires are just not held to the same spec's as any street legal tire!
and if there saying they do, I would really question this info!!

can they be balanced< I guess, but doubt they would stay there long due to how atv's are used! low air and all, tires will slip at times on a wheel(small amounts) but enough to toss a balanced tire out of wack pretty easy!, just add some mud to a tire and your out of balance!
Atv's just are not driven on pavement(or most are not) enough to need a balanced tire, and well, sadly, MOST honda atv's don't go fast enough to notice them out of balance LOL

 

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Well I found the torque value online in forum responses. 18 ft lbs or more properly probably since Honda is all metric, 24 nm.

Oddly enough in the Helm book, the official manual 'from Honda' it has torque values for everything? ... EXCEPT the oil drain plug, as far as I could see. I'll look again, but since the big stripping issues in earlier years maybe they just were afraid to put a torque value.

I used 24 nm and that is fairly easy, tight, but not super or good n tight, as on my BMW motorcycle.

Now as to tire balance. That was for the motorcycle, which indeed is critical. And I know dyna beads are accurate, but I just never liked the idea of stuff rolling around in my tires. I'd rather a (motorcycle tire) dynamic spin balance like I always got in Los Angeles.

I have no need to balance the atv tires. It's just that I didn't like Rocky Mountain's policy on it. I was later covinced of their use by getting my atv boxes there.

I'm sure my atv tires are fine as they came from the factory. And I'm not about to replace them till they are worn out, then I may go to a larger tire.

I've been up into one of the big canyons here which goes up, eventually to the skyline route which goes to all the canyons for hundreds of miles. But. Snow and mud has prevented me. A lady was talking of a plow cut thru' about 10 feet of snow last week on a neighboring canyon but still she was able to get to the top and beyond to go fishing.

So I have 100 miles and that is Honda's first maintenance, so that's why I'm looking for the o rings for the valve check. I did the oil but the dealer sold me the wrong oil filters so I have a 50 mile ride each way there tomorrow to change those, then get back on the trial. I'll do the valve check in a few days when I get the o rings.

Thanks
dc