1999 700 SKS crank and clutch woes

Best first post I've ever read, I actually have tears in my eyes. You should post this in the pro section where if they get 150 miles they are dancing in the streets. 8500 miles, racing cars on the highway at 80 and the damn thing died!! priceless

I meant no disrespect to you with that last post, it was saturday night and I was having a few, it just struck me as funny. Everything wears out sooner or later, 8500 miles is doing pretty good to me. It is an older sled, it's sat through lots of summers and quite often thats what kills crank bearings, long periods of time without any new oil getting to them, they start to rust and it's all downhill from there. Bottomline the old BB 700's were/are a great engine, very few crank issues, or any issues at all for that matter. IMHO one of the best engines polaris ever built. Thanks for the laugh, again no disrespect to you, it's just that you read thread after thread about guys complaining of trouble with brand new pros that aren't even broken in for miles and then you post that about 8500 miles and your questioning the cranks durability. Hillarious.

So you guys are saying I should pounce on the 99' 700RMK down the street? I'm thinking it would be a good backup sled after giving it the ol' once over. ~4500miles and looks bone stock to me. Tear in the seat and missing inner headlight block-off plate but otherwise she looks decent. Figured I'd do a compression check and if its good, offer 750 on his 900 OBO, does that seam reasonable?