Hopefully this post can help someone out or clear up any confusion online. When looking for crankshaft bearings, I found that they were sold either red or blue, or 2 reds or 2 blues. Something to make you go hmmmm.
So, I did what anyone would do and researched a little online as to the differences between the red and the blue
and which one I needed for my application. There was surprisingly little info of the difference and what the difference actually was. Some sites claimed it was a year model thing, some claimed it was a crank run out thing, some claimed it was a different thickness thing. No one claimed to really know the difference and I was pretty confused at this point.
What to do? I searched through my disassembly pics and noticed a blue stripe on a bearing. Ah Ha! that must be it. I need the blue ones. I thought I was pretty smug at this point, so I ordered the blue bearings since you could not just order a kit. Remember they are sold as 1 red, 1 blue, 2 reds, or 2 blues. So I ordered 2 blues.
The bearings came in and I pressed them in. All looks great. I check the manual for the next step in reassembly and low and behold, there it is in black and white. Blue bearing goes on crankcase half B and red bearing goes on crankcase half A.
#@&%^#*$!! If all else fails read the @&#^$% manual, FIRST, I might add. Guess who gets to wait on a red bearing now, lol.
I should have asked you guys. Someone reading this is probably thinking, dumb@ss why didn't you just ask me? lol. Anyway, I hope anyone doing a future search on the internet finds this thread and definitively finds the answer to the red and blue Cfmoto crank bearing differences. See how I phrased that as a search engine tag
, That is all for now.
P.S. do you guys think this tariff thing is going to hurt/delay getting parts for our machines? I notice most of my orders coming from China.