would it be better to part out?

[listoa69]

i guess i fubarbed a bearing in my 2003 katana 600. It only had 2002 miles on it. Everyone is telling me to replace the engine and it is going to cast me about $1500. would it be cheaper to just part it out and buy another one?

[Court93kat]

You talking about parting out the whole bike or just the motor?

[BobKat2002]

Fix It !

Gawd.

[listoa69]

the whole bike, i don't really have the money to fix right now. i also don't have the know how.

[Jax]

Well you are at the right place if you want to find out how to fix it. The first thing you might want to do is buy a shop manual...then look up the "bearing" you think you blew...then come back here and ask a bunch of questions and hopefully you'll get enought responses that you will be able to be back on the road in fairly short period of time...

[slayergsxf1]

Fix It!!!If you cant do it now wait....Youll regret selling it cheap...

[coolhandluke]

Fix it

8) Go for the fix man. You can find a used motor pretty cheap on ebay or on this site. Get you a manual and read the posts on this site. There's alot of guys here that will help you through it and they are sharp, they know their business. Hang in there and ( get er dun)

[UH60FXR]

Keep it as noted and take this as your excuse to put a really hyped engine in it.

[mystahagy]

Re: would it be better to part out?

would it be cheaper to just part it out and buy another one?

I'd fix the engine. Parting it out and trying to buy something with that cheddar would be taking a step back, doubt you'd get something near as nice as what you have, even with it's dead motor.

Try to save up and have someone with a good reputation repair it, or try to do it yourself. Don't be intimidated, you've already found this awesome resource, and it's times like these where most of us learned what we now know. Usually for me I either had to learn how to fix it, or it was gonna stay broken. Being short on funds kinda does that to you.
YOU CAN DO EEETTT!!!

[md86]

Keep it as noted and take this as your excuse to put a really hyped engine in it.

Yeah , why not procure a freash engine . MUCH cheaper than the $1500 to have it fixed . Prolly get a good engine for less than $600 ....

[DreKat]

buy a second bike with a title from ebay swap engines and bild a second bike to sell

[BIG BILL]

Fix it, you may find it easyer than you think.
I am new on here and have learned so much more already just reading all the bumf.
Any way hope you get it sorted but don't sell it cheap as somone else will fix it and have all your fun.

BIG BILL

[rwcreigh]

if it was me,i would fix it myself.but GET a manual.

[thecynic]

I can't believe none of you have suggested throwing a 1127 in there.

If i wasn't so anal about changing my oil/adjusting my valves i'd already had done the swap.

[BobKat2002]

I can't believe none of you have suggested throwing a 1127 in there.

Ok.Throw an 1127 in there.