I posted a thread today about the Predator 212cc. Curious, what is your opinion about the Predator. One person says it's a great product for the price....the other says stay way, way back from the Predator because it's crap. What do you think?
My first predator the valve train exploded with about 15 hours on the motor. Valves were within proper adjustment, it just blew apart after hitting a large bump at speed.
That was fixable.
Second predator, new style with 8 hours, has lost some power and is blowing oil like a son of a gun through the vent. No white smoke from the exhaust but lots of smoke and oil from the vent.
I'm not even cracking this one apart since it has so little hours on it, pulling it tonight, returning to stock configuration and using the warranty to get a new motor tomorrow.
I've got clones with 50+ hours that have yet to have any major maintenance issues..
IMO the predator is much lesser quality than the greyhound clones. But what are you gonna do when you want a $100 motor... I'd highly recommend the extra 20$ for the extended warranty.