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Do all 2 strokes somewhat splooge?
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[QUOTE="mj4trax, post: 1380864, member: 116336"] rode a 450 quad a couple times. . .. wasn't impressed . .. at least as fast as my quad, but not half as fun to ride. I'm digressing, but a brief history lesson on the Honda Fourtrax TRX250R is that it is a 250cc 2-stroke (non-pv) quad built from 1986-1989 . .. and it was about the only thing us quad guys had to race until '99. .. still dominated the races until the advent of the 450 production class. The motor is very similar to the ~'85 CR250 motor, but with a counter-balancer. They have yet to make another quad that I would rather own. I am a two-stroke guy though and through. I've had good reliability on my quads. . except for my first few years when I was really learning how to jet, and I leaned it out a couple times. Since then, I've learned a good "feel" for how I want my motors to run in order to get a good compromise of performance and reliability out of them. .. and the last 5-10 years has been very good for me. . . usually get about 50 hours out of rings. . . and get 3-4 ring cycles per piston/bore. I honestly got into bikes because I wanted to see what it would be like to have a modern two-stroke engine. . . and it has been a good experience. I did put a flywheel weight on the RM. .. and that has mainly just helped keep me from stalling as easily in the tight stuff. I really wouldn't call it a jury rig though. Since buying my RM, I've got ~ 50-60 hours of trail riding on it (meaning that I should have changed the rings 10 times according to your service interval) and the motor has not experienced any compression or power loss, no change in the amount of slooge created and is not making any extra noises. I did buy a new piston/rings for it and will install before my next ride. If the splooge goes away from that alone. . . I'll be surprised, but happy. The more I think about it, the more I believe/understand that the splooge is from my tendency to jet rich and the tight trails that I like to ride. I do tend to load it up a bit, but I have yet to actually foul a plug on the bike. It really does get much better when I can stay on the throttle for more than a split second in between trees and corners. I guess I'm saying that I'm comfortable with my understanding of splooge now. . . except that you were asking about the exhaust valve setting. Was that in connection with the splooge, or for a different reason? [/QUOTE]
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