Found a good local husky wrench. Having him tear down my 250. And price out the rebuild.
The other guy wants 1600 for the motor only.
Just comes down to the cheapest fix.
If I go the 450 route, I will for sure leave the 250 decal on the swingarm lol
Yeah, rebuilds get dumb spendy. I have a 510SMR motor sitting in my garage that I was going to rebuild because a rod bearing went out. I figured the 510 VS 450 is always a welcome addition. Doing it right...costs super coin. Here is what I was quoted when I was shopping around
1)Connecting rod kit
$240 + $75 to install (additional 200 if you want it balanced -highly recommend so you don't blow your bearing out again)
2)Piston kit and re-nikasil the bore
$399 for forged wossner piston,rings etc mated to freshly nikasil'd cylinder
3)headgasket kit (wossner sells the best kit- comes with multi layer metal head gasket, all gaskets yada yada $90 shipped from wossner
4)Prep the head. If you're gonna pull the head, you best have the head decked/cleared to remove the firing ring, clean it up, AND have the valves inspected to make sure they are sealing 100%. To have the head decked at my local place that does great work and have them do a valve job it's roughly $100.
5)Bearings. These get spendy. Depending upon how anal you are, which ones would you consider replacing? Tranny bearings and main bearing take the most abuse. If your TE had a counter balancer, those are spendy too. You could spend upwards of $300 on just bearings and little gaskets and such for the rebuild.
I rebuild my own stuff, so my labor is free. I never priced the last element. Which is the most expensive part. If you just wore out a piston and rings, then you could likely get away for 5-700. New piston, new gasket set, do the head work so your top end is as new, and re-install. If it ate some metal, and was pushing metal around in your oil, then re-using major bearings is a very big gamble as the labor to tear it all back down for a bearing is spenday!
Good news is some motor components are worth very good monay on ebay. Heck, some SMR 450 engine cases went for over $400 on ebay, plus all the other good bits, you might be able to milk $800-1000 out of your old motor depending on the damage, which makes the other motor seem more affordable. What it costs to repair your unit RIGHT, is the real metric to consider and what makes sense.
