After a few trades my dad ended up with an 05 Brute Force 750. The guy he got it from said he was riding it up his driveway and it just died. The guy had just "had the heads reworked" prior to this happening. He said he pulled the side cover off and confirmed it jumped time then he needed a vehicle and traded it for an old car of my dads.
My dad had this thing for something like 6 months and I finally asked him if I could just buy it from him and fix it for myself to which he just gives it to me. I drove 5 hours up to get it and one speeding ticket later I have myself a dogged out brute force that is now my project to turn into a reliable machine.
It came with a 2" highlifter lift, a gorilla rad relocate, not sure what clutch springs and weights but is one of the vpi kits, a moose module, and the rims say superatv on the hubcaps. Along with that it came with about a 1/4" thick layer of mud.....on everything.
After bringing it home on Sunday, I have stripped the thing down, every piece of plastic down to the bare frame. Also taking the motor out in the process. Then I pressure washed all of the mud off of everything and now have a clean brute(aside from the motor but that's a different story).
So the bike came with a motor that had already had the process of taking apart started, which is a pain and I'm sorry for anyone else that goes through this. It came with a bucket full of rusty bolts and parts that I'm going to have to replace..... but I now have the motor off and confirmed the timing was definitely off and have now ordered the chains and guides for it along with a new battery. Supposedly setting the time would have had this thing started, so putting new components in should prove it a reliable motor. I hope. It too has a layer of dirt on it but since it came with the side cover off I'm afraid to clean it until I get it back together.
All of my parts should be here Thursday so hopefully I can at least get this thing started this weekend.
So far my list of goals for this thing are the following(in order):
1. Replace timing chains and guides and put motor together.
2. Get replacements for all stripped, rusted, and missing hardware.
3. Replace all axle boots and right rear axle which has a broken CV cage I think is what it's called?(supposedly have all parts needed to fix it in my bucket)
4. Put all new fluids including radiator, diffs, and motor. Maybe brakes.
5. Eventually get all things greased up.
5 and 1/2. Dielectric grease electronics
6. Snorkel
7. Rims and Tires
8. Exhaust
9. Lights and Audio
This list is definitely subject to change as I find new things wrong with it as I'm sure they are limitless with this thing sitting for so long.
If you have any questions or anything let me know. I'm going to TRY to get pictures of everything along the way and keep them posted. Never really worked with anything inside of a motor so this should definitely be interesting. Most I've ever done is build a pit bike with a bought motor. But all components of that thing just bolted on.
I'm sure all of this was long to read, but thanks for taking the time. Also not sure if this is even the correct place to post this but it seemed right.
Pictures are in reverse order from getting it to now.
My dad had this thing for something like 6 months and I finally asked him if I could just buy it from him and fix it for myself to which he just gives it to me. I drove 5 hours up to get it and one speeding ticket later I have myself a dogged out brute force that is now my project to turn into a reliable machine.
It came with a 2" highlifter lift, a gorilla rad relocate, not sure what clutch springs and weights but is one of the vpi kits, a moose module, and the rims say superatv on the hubcaps. Along with that it came with about a 1/4" thick layer of mud.....on everything.
After bringing it home on Sunday, I have stripped the thing down, every piece of plastic down to the bare frame. Also taking the motor out in the process. Then I pressure washed all of the mud off of everything and now have a clean brute(aside from the motor but that's a different story).
So the bike came with a motor that had already had the process of taking apart started, which is a pain and I'm sorry for anyone else that goes through this. It came with a bucket full of rusty bolts and parts that I'm going to have to replace..... but I now have the motor off and confirmed the timing was definitely off and have now ordered the chains and guides for it along with a new battery. Supposedly setting the time would have had this thing started, so putting new components in should prove it a reliable motor. I hope. It too has a layer of dirt on it but since it came with the side cover off I'm afraid to clean it until I get it back together.
All of my parts should be here Thursday so hopefully I can at least get this thing started this weekend.
So far my list of goals for this thing are the following(in order):
1. Replace timing chains and guides and put motor together.
2. Get replacements for all stripped, rusted, and missing hardware.
3. Replace all axle boots and right rear axle which has a broken CV cage I think is what it's called?(supposedly have all parts needed to fix it in my bucket)
4. Put all new fluids including radiator, diffs, and motor. Maybe brakes.
5. Eventually get all things greased up.
5 and 1/2. Dielectric grease electronics
6. Snorkel
7. Rims and Tires
8. Exhaust
9. Lights and Audio
This list is definitely subject to change as I find new things wrong with it as I'm sure they are limitless with this thing sitting for so long.
If you have any questions or anything let me know. I'm going to TRY to get pictures of everything along the way and keep them posted. Never really worked with anything inside of a motor so this should definitely be interesting. Most I've ever done is build a pit bike with a bought motor. But all components of that thing just bolted on.
I'm sure all of this was long to read, but thanks for taking the time. Also not sure if this is even the correct place to post this but it seemed right.
Pictures are in reverse order from getting it to now.