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I have a 1998 jayco eagle 12 SO. Bought it knowing it would only lift the rear. I found the square tubing that holds the spring looking rod for the right front to have been ripped out of the floor and aggressively pulled into the winch. I pushed it back to where it belonged and secured it back to the floor. I put the rod back in place and put the little square plastic push piece that pushes the lift tubing back in place. Now I'm ready to use it all again but what's holding me out is the cable of the side I worked on is fully tensioned in the down position. All other 3 corners are slacked like they're supposed to be. How is this possible? No cables broke, so there was no cable footage lost. You can see the stress that the eyebolts took at some point. The only thing I can think of is maybe there's so cable bound up inside the metal square tubing that holds the pulley? Nothing else makes much sense. Thoughts?

How does this quad sound in your opinion in this video?

I want to go look at buying this 2011 sportsman 800 from a local guy. He seems like a good dude. The things I've read about these quads are that they're reliable, tanks, last forever but also drink gas (not an issue). But there's 1 thing that makes me worry. It's seems that the 800s could get "piston slap". It doesn't seem like a common thing but also sounds like it could be catastrophic. I'm not really good about picking apart different noises. This thing being a twin cylinder it makes a lot of noise anyway and CVT clutches sometimes are rattly so personally I think it would be hard for me to pick out the piston slap noise if it had it. That's why I've come here for help. It only has 800 mi on the odometer which is very promising, but he also said that the primary clutch has been replaced which seems kind of strange to me for such low miles. Thanks for looking!