I had one of those stomach-churning goof ups last week. I have the 3-seat Twisted Stitch bench, and had a couple of kids jump in for a quick ride, and rather than sizing the harnesses to hold them in, I just had them throw the shoulder belts on and off we went... A couple of minutes into the ride, we jumped over a berm and bounced into some fine gravel. As we went though the gravel, I started hearing what I thought was gravel hitting the engine behind me, but when we got out of the gravel, the sound kept going, even when we got into the sand - it almost sounded like somehow gravel got into the engine, and I didn't seem to have any power - I would hit the gas, and the engine just revved with that grinding sound. Then the girl sitting in the middle (wait for it...straddling the gear shift...I'm cringing as I type this) said, "I think I might have bumped this when we went over that bump, does that matter?" I looked up and the gauge wasn't reading a gear. I slammed on the brakes and put it back in gear. It ran fine the rest of the day, (although I heard a few guys decided to put it through its paces while I was out on the boat, which I'm sure didn't help anything). The next day, it was intermittently making nasty rattling/grinding sounds whenever it was in a forward gears. It sort of sounds like a combination of the classic gear grinding sound, and the sound the handle bar in the passenger seat makes when it rattles around... It sounds like a bunch of things are just loose back there, but it's not really old enough for that yet, is it?
Am I in for a big bill?
Any suggestions for a place in Utah to take this to get an honest expert to look at/repair it?
Am I in for a big bill?
Any suggestions for a place in Utah to take this to get an honest expert to look at/repair it?