There are some people there Id rather not deal with. But they have some good guys there as well.

I bought a yxz1000r from Robbie a few weeks ago and guy was top notch.

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Posted by Tridentds

Sugar Land

Member since Aug 2011

20371 posts

Posted on 10/4/16 at 6:21 pm to Boat Motor Bandit

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Your just not ever gonna beat a Honda transmission. Auto or Manual you can never go wrong. They stand behind their products and engineering like no other manufacturer. Yamaha auto will have issues in water with that belt system guaranteed and you will not get the warranty the vey minute it is pulled and the mechanic see's that it was submerged and in their eyes abused.

On my 2nd Honda 500 Rubicon. The current one is 12 years old with Hondamatic tranny. Use it in rice fields, marsh, and up in the mountains in Colorado elk hunting. Have a trailer that I use to carry 4-5 people + decoys, guns, etc... out into fields and into our hunting property down muddy roads during the season. Use same trailer to carry a yard+ of soil/sand/sand and 3 yards of mulch around 2 acres at my house. Honda engine and transmission is a workhorse. When I have a heavy load I tend to go into manual select mode. I have replaced speed sensor twice and a couple of other minor sensors that gave an error code but have never been stranded... not once. My next ATV will be a Honda. Tops out at around 38-39 but it isn't designed to be fast, That's my experience.

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Posted by FlagLake

"Da Ship"

Member since Feb 2006

2337 posts

Posted on 10/4/16 at 11:31 pm to X123F45

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Lastly, the 420 is the best fourwheeler honda has ever made.

Bruh? I think you meant the 300.

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Posted by rooster108bm

Member since Nov 2010

2887 posts

Posted on 10/5/16 at 5:00 am to GREENHEAD22

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Also we had to clean out the carburetor and it's not idling correctly and kils if you take the choke off. I am hoping we do not mess up the throttle or choke cables when we were taking apart the carburetor to clean it.

Sounds like you didnt get the jets clean or you have the idle screw in to much and its running to lean. Probably the jets, any little bit of varnish will make it run lean and not idle right, run lean and backfire when you let off throttle or not run without choke. Easiest way to clean is to use an ultrasonic cleaner if you have one.

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Posted by X123F45

Member since Apr 2015

27379 posts

Posted on 10/5/16 at 6:05 am to FlagLake

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Bruh? I think you meant the 300.

I have a 300. I've had a few 300s. I mean the 420. The 300s have issues with the transfer case leaking oil, the rear brake drum filling with water and then flowing through the rear axle into the rear diff, and the front diff was undersized for even the 12 hp the motor was making.

The engine itself was astounding, but those few defects were fixed on the 420. I've seen them with 15k plus miles of hard use.

They are a good bike.

If I said what I thought was the best bike ever built by any manufacturer, y'all would run me out of here.