Please inspect the rubber chain slide on top of the swingarm, it does wear out and must be replaced prior to wearing through and into the swingarm.

Inspect the fuel fitting on top left side of bike tank, or bottom rear of quad tank, we have seen o-ring inside the rear of the female connector fitting swell and cause fuel starvation, hesitation, stalling, etc.

(this image is from a bike with a quad filter installed)

We are getting much quicker at removing an engine using the R & S tie down technique!

1. Remove all plastic, radiator, fan, and necessary components to access the motor.

2. Remove all electrical connectors, fuel system connectors, oil system connectors.

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3. Remove the fuel injectors on the quad, remove top rear shock bolt and swing shock to the rear and place a shop rag between the shock and frame to hold the rear of the quad up.

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4. Attach tie down strap around top of frame behind the airbox and down under the intake runner of the head at the front of the head, this will hold the engine up on the bike or quad so the lower frame rails can be removed without additional person needed or jack under frame rails and in the way.

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5. Remove frame rails.

6. Place floor jack, with board on top, under the motor and raise until rear swingarm bolt can be shoved out only enough to remove motor, leave swingarm bolt in through the right side of frame and swingarm to hold rear of bike or quad up.

      
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7. Remove tie down, lower motor out, slide out of left side of frame.

      
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Putting the Graydon nerfs on is the norm. It's all there and made well but it is going to take time to get them on the way you like.

Put the front cross bar on first, just snug it up to the u-bolts so you can still slide it around. If you are really tight on the left side, you may need to tighten the inside nut just until the bolts comes to the top of the nut and tighten the outside nut more than usual, it becomes unlevel and I don't like the look but it gives you more clearance with the engine side case bolts.

Some of the front cross bars that go between the frame and engine from side to side are to tall. This piece is a chromed steel hollow steel tube and may need to be put in a vise and bent flatter to clear the left side lower engine side case bolts. No big deal but it may need to be done to clear, and be careful or you can flatten it to much because the chrome and the actual steel tube will begin to crack and split because of the small thickness of the metal as it becomes to flat.

Next, assemble the aluminum nerfs onto the cross bar, push the aluminum tube onto the steel cross bar as far as it will go. Slide the steel crossbar front to back to locate the flat aluminum plate up against the footpeg. It will not rest against it by itself, you must get it close and then put vicegrips on the plate and the footpeg right in the middle of the front of the footpeg so you have room on each side to drill holes. I usually put cardboard between the teeth of the vicegrips and the footpeg and plate so as not to chew up the parts. Locate the top of the aluminum plate at the bottom of the "v" of the teeth of the footpeg. If you put the top of the plate level with the very top edge of the teeth of the footpeg it will make it slick and drive you crazy.

Next, drill two holes in the plate and footpeg. Make sure when you drill that you position the bit to be in the center(top to bottom) of the footpeg and not center (top to bottom) of the plate. Be sure to clear the bottom crossrails of the footpeg, the heads of the bolts will need to clear also. And don't get to close to the outside of the footpeg as the metal gets very thick and your bolt head will not clear. Bolt to the footpeg.

Go back and tighten the crossbar u-bolts now.

Last, drill down through the steel cross bar through the existing hole in the aluminum nerf where the two attach to each other. Attach bolts, we usually get stainless bolts to replace these bolts provided.

Not to make a simple task hard but I have done it all wrong everywhere in the process to get it down to where this looks the best and makes it the easiest.

Install webbing and ride hard.