

I had planned on meeting the guy again after work. Took it for a test drive one morning before work. Back in Oct of '06 I found a Mustang on craigslist.

I guess I was a late bloomer when it comes to quads. Really thought it was the rod bearing but it didn't make the noise at idle so I was questioning it.Luckily I kept searching!! Where the hell did that knocking noise go? and what was causing it? Just racking my brain trying to figure out what it was so I know for next time but I can't make sense of it. It was just really hard to tell bc the oem wires coming from the stator were so brown and dirty I could barely make out which was which. I switched them so they matched per the service manual (W/R to W/R and R to R) and the bike started right up, idled and revved out fine and the knocking noise disappeared. Upon further inspection of the wires coming from the stator there was a W/R wired to R and a R wired to W/R. I was worried it was the rod bearing and electrical still messed up somehow. The bike would want to die anytime you gave it gas and there would be this horrible knocking sound but only when you gave it gas. Later after the carb was cleaned and adjusted I got this (see video). It would die when you gave it gas so I soldered all the wires together and went on inspecting assuming it was a carb issue. The previous owner had them all twisted together and the bike neutral light would come on it would start (hard to start) but then would idle fine. It had all the wires cut from the stator and a few others and no wiring harnesses. So my latest wheeler is a 04 Yamaha Bruin 350.
