Originally Posted by
bigemike
I emailed adrien about bad problems with 2 of my 3 crf engines, he promised he sent out parts and I asked for tracking number and crickets....
I then after about 20 emails and 4 months had Joe Pillars from kyosho copy me in on an email to him and instant response and my parts where sent out.
When I went to do the rebuilds, I found the crank pin on both engines where too small to do a rebuild, again I contacted him and again crickets. I bought a couple of orion cranks off of ebay last week for cheap and figured I would try them, if not I would make someone a great deal on 2 new pistion sleeve and rod sets and a couple of cases with new bearings, lol
What a joke, short life engines, crap support and high prices, I am suprised orion would keep thier name on this stuff...
I am not a big fan of the Orion engines but I do rebuild quite a few. The crank and rod quality is pretty good and they last as long as any other high end engine. If you were getting alot of wear in a short time I would suspect dirt getting in or bad fuel. Dirt can get in through the front bearing also. What fuel were you using?
Rex