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Message: [QUOTE="reepicheep, post: 1354726, member: 104942"] I got a 95 that had been badly abused, and my neighbor (old dirtbike guy) finally guilted me into pulling the top end. Sure enough, the cylinder was scored and the (stock) piston was cracked. I would say checking it then saved me a lot of work and expense, but the previous owner stripped the splines of the output shaft, so I had to split the cases anyway. But it almost saved me a lot of work and expense. And if that skirt let go, who knows if the crank would have been trashed in the "event" as well. You don't even have to mess with the head / head gasket... I think you can pull the whole cylinder and head off as an intact assembly. Gotta love two strokes! [/QUOTE]