2012 CRF450 Rebuild or Part?

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Does anyone have any experience parting out bikes and do you end up better off financially vs rebuilding?

I have a CRF that I have owned since new and the motor looks to have gone bad. After changing the oil I started it up and after idling for about 30 seconds it stalled. I tried to restart but he motor felt tight and wouldn't start again. Its has about 250 hours on the motor since I last rebuilt the bottom end. It has 450 hours total so its had a good life and ready for some love. When I rebuilt the bottom end I left the head alone so it definitely needs to be redone now because one of the intakes is tight and may bven be chipped around the edge. I tore apart the motor and the piston is really worn with score marks and the con rod is scored a little bit from the wrist pin. Which to me points to an oiling issue. Anyone had issues with oil pumps or oil jets clogging? Any recommendations on head work?

I am guessing its probably going to be ~$1300 to rebuild if I do it all myself so trying to decide to part or fix.
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walent215 4/7/2020 7:50pm
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Rebuild
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kb228 4/8/2020 5:50am
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Rebuild it and go back to 0 hours. Finding people to buy the frame swingarm triple clamps etc isnt easy unless you let it sit on ebay for a year.
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yz133rider 4/8/2020 5:56am
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Id probably part it. That's just me. Or sell complete rolling chassis. A 500 swap guy would likely snap it up.
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H4L 4/8/2020 6:26am
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I’d Rebuild it.

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seth505 4/8/2020 6:58am
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It really depends on the bike model to determine how much each component can fetch. A few years ago I got sick of a bunch of lowball offers on a 250sx I had and decided to part it out. I made an extra 2 grand in the end and that included losses of shipping the frame, suspension, motor.
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Moto520 4/8/2020 1:53pm
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Packaging everything and shipping it out is a real bitch. Very time consuming. I'd rebuild it and run it! Chad Reed just stated in the most recent Pulpmx show that the 2012 Honda CRF450 is his favorite bike of all time. I am dealing with the same situation with a 2013 CRF250. She just locked up on me. I really like the bike so i think i'm going to have her rebuilt. The bikes haven't improved SO much that your 2012 is obsolete.
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Moto520 wrote:
Packaging everything and shipping it out is a real bitch. Very time consuming. I'd rebuild it and run it! Chad Reed just stated in the most...
Packaging everything and shipping it out is a real bitch. Very time consuming. I'd rebuild it and run it! Chad Reed just stated in the most recent Pulpmx show that the 2012 Honda CRF450 is his favorite bike of all time. I am dealing with the same situation with a 2013 CRF250. She just locked up on me. I really like the bike so i think i'm going to have her rebuilt. The bikes haven't improved SO much that your 2012 is obsolete.
Agree. The 09-12 models are severely underrated bikes. I regret selling a 10 model that was dialed.
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Beazrad 4/8/2020 7:22pm
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I guess the part I left out is I bought a new KTM 2 weeks before it let go so I don’t really need it. I had just finished cleaning it up and changing the oil to sell and that’s when it died. Glad it died on me rather than a new buyer.

If I rebuild I’ll just keep it for my kids. I have an 8th grader that’ should grow into it in the next year.

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