Cannondaleriders

Grrr, mine just did the same thing today. I just installed the Stage 8 less than a month ago on only have about 10 hours on it since the Stage 8. How would I go about turning the engine with the Flywheel?

Alright, I spun the stator Clockwise and it spins, but it seems like it as something holding it up alittle bit. It'll spin, but it gets pretty rough sometime, and sometimes I can spin it whole revolution without any holdup whatsoever, so I'm just gonna pull the engine anyhow. This thing drives me crazy
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this may sound elementry and i'm not saying you're stupid or anything... but did you take the spark plug out before you turned it over?:confused:

Whoooa there Geronimo...
Can you describe the problems you had. Sometimes, things may sound the same but in actual fact turn out to be something completly different.

Well, um.....opps, forgot too take the plug out:eek:

EuroGod, my symptons sound the same as Craig's down too a tee.

Although he didnt mention it this in his description, I been hearing a clicking noise, like the something hitting inside the left side of the engine, it comes and goes.

Ughh, if you can spin the crank and then it gets really rough and sticky at times and at other times it seems to spin fine, and its not the compression, you gotta add rod bearing to your list of possiblities. When mine went, I just got home after a day of riding, everything was fine, went to warm it up to change the oil. up the street, it died, started, rode back, died again, restarted, revved it, it and then it locked. I hope that isnt the case.

WJR

Ahh, man don't tell me that. I just took the sidecover off and everything looks tight inside there.

I bet its the Rod Bearings cause it was making a knocking sound and I beleive I read somewhere that it makes a knocking sound before the Rod Bearings go.

We had one in our shop this last weekend doing the exact same thing. It was the crank rod bearing.