Engine Cases

[Gone Blue]

I have been wanting a Phazer ever since they came out. I have toyed with selling my Rage and building a 136" RTX. In any case, I found a 07' FX with 3,500 miles and a blown engine that would allow me to keep my Rage and have a Phazer too. It blew a rod and a hole thru the engine case.

My question is are engine cases for Phazers readily available used? I would think that it will need alot of other parts but you cant do much without the cases to start.

Thanks, G.B.

 

[marpolsdofer]

Well You can by just the case but its $900. If you want a whole engine the dealer has to buy a full sled and sell the chassis and engine off. That will cost about $2,000-$3,000 for just the engine.

Other wise there are a few people who are selling engines on here. Usually when something goes wrong the pahzer engine, every thing goes.

Other then that I plan on selling my sled at the end of the season for $4,000 or possible more. I need to get money for another race sled first.

 

[yam177]

I have a complete engine with a Bad rod bearing and rod. no holes in the case yet

 

[RayKnobs]

whole engines only last a couple hours on ebay, if you find one buy it quickly.

 

[Gone Blue]

Thanks guys for your feedback. The only way this makes any sense is for me to rebuild the motor myself which is my intent. Used cases or a rebuildable motor is the way I would want to go. Like you mentioned Marpolsdofer; used Phazers around $4,000 are available. If I can get this sled for $2,000 or less then I think it is worth doing. Any more than that is not worth doing IMO. Yam177, I will look you up if I pull the trigger on this. Thanks, G.B.

 

[RayKnobs]

I would make sure i could find the parts before spending the cash. That's a big investment to having sitting around waiting for a case to become available.

 

[Gone Blue]

I would make sure i could find the parts before spending the cash. That's a big investment to having sitting around waiting for a case to become available.

Worst case, I am pretty confident for that money I could part it out and make my money back and more. If you are telling me that used motors are out there but only last a few hours when listed for sale, then there is a market for Phazer parts. I put up thread because I havent see many Phazer engine parts for sale and wanted to see if they were out there somewhere. Thanks again, G.B.

 

[spike337]

I'll sell you my engine for 3500. It comes with the rest of the sled too.

 

[RayKnobs]

then there is a market for Phazer parts. .

I don't know how much money you'll make in parts if you don't have an engine to sell. Seems like a lot of work to break even.

With that being said you probably shouldn't pay 2K for a sled with a wrecked motor.

 

[marpolsdofer]

Yea I have a hard time selling stuff from my old chassis. Not many people need engine frame mounts, they just want shocks, a-arms, and stuff of that sort. That being said the engine is a lot of work. Even the sled it self is, it took week to move ever thing from one tunnel to another. Of course I had to some cutting and fabrication work.

 

[blueironranger]

there was a low mileage engine on Ebay a few weeks back, it was on there quite awhile for 1900$ and didn't sell until the Buy It Now was dropped to 1700$. Spendy to fix, thats for sure. I'm glad mine was under warranty when she blew. My dealer said it would have been just as cheap to uncrate a new left over sled and exchange the whole sled but Yamaha didn't want to do that.

 

[yam177]

Yea I have not yet decides to sell my extra engine as is or fix it first

 

[BombaPolaYama]

3 and 4 yr old sleds can't have a whole lot of clicks on them, so what is the deal with these 4 strokes blowing anyway? I thought they're supposed to be bullet proof?

 

[yam177]

3 and 4 yr old sleds can't have a whole lot of clicks on them, so what is the deal with these 4 strokes blowing anyway? I thought they're supposed to be bullet proof?

Mine I hit something and broke the oil tank. and took out the rod bearing before I saw the oil light. I was testing some stuff and didn't see the light

 

[BombaPolaYama]

3 and 4 yr old sleds can't have a whole lot of clicks on them, so what is the deal with these 4 strokes blowing anyway? I thought they're supposed to be bullet proof?

Mine I hit something and broke the oil tank. and took out the rod bearing before I saw the oil light. I was testing some stuff and didn't see the light

Plain bad luck then. So did you hit it on the bottom where the oil drains?
Would a skid plate have protected it?