95PurpleHaze
04-12-2012, 05:28 PM
Ok so After I bought my Honda 200es last summer my cousin Wesley gave me trailprotrailprotrailprotrailpro about it, until he rode it into the first mud hole and when he got back he said "I want one!" well summer is coming back so he started looking. And man did he find a treasure trove of fun machines. We responded to an ad online about and old man who had 3 atcs, 1 Honda 4wheeler, and 2 go carts along with 2 extra atc engines. The old man Wanted $300 for the lot. We get there and they are in rough shape, nothing runs, but it's ok because we know that with some time and a lil money we can get at least one 3wheeler running, the 4 wheeler going and at least one of the go carts needed a new engine. My cousin pays the 300 for the lot and said he wasn't going to bid him down because all the motors have compression and spin freely. All 3 atcs were 110s, and the 4 wheeler was an 87 125.
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One of them was in a barn that the roof fell on top of. We had to jack the roof up and try to wrestle the old atc out.
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So we get them back to his place and choose the one that we think needs the least amount of work and start wrenching. Our goal is to just get the motor to start (none of them had chains) So we check the spark, it's good, then we tear down the carb and clean it. We put the carb back together and it was leaking but it was no big deal because we just wanted to see if the motor would start. Fixing the leak would come later. The motor wouldnt turn over because the plug was bad. So we changed the oil in it, and cut the old rack off the back.
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fast forward to the next day, new chain and plug, we decide to pull the atc behind his 4wheeler to try and get it to turn over. Now keep in mind the motor was making a slight tapping sound and the carb was shooting out a fuel mist when we tried to use the pull rope. But since the rockers didnt have any oil and the carb was probably flooded we didnt think nothing of it. My cousin gets on the atc, I pull him with the 4wheeler to try and start it while he sprays starter fluid in the carb. It's night time and we get under way. I can hear the atc trying to start, back firing and sputtering. My cousin is shouting "Come on you old trailprotrailprotrailprotrailprotrailpro, you can do it!" well i get around his house and I hear him yell "Woah!" I see a light going past me and my first thought was "The head light came on.... It got fire!" I look behind me while driving and i see it got fire alright.... the 3 wheeler was on fire and my cousin was rolling on the ground while I'm pulling a flaming atc through his yard!
We frantically get the fire out but the damage was done.
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The wires from the Stator were burnt, the seat (which was already crap) was partly burnt, along with some rear fender damage and the tank got deformed. We figured out what had happend. The timing was off so much on the engine that the carb shot flames right into the starter fluid stream and it set the gas covered carb on fire.
After taking it apart we see what the problem was. Some idiot in the past tried to work on the cam and didnt set the timing right, and the cam bolts were loose and thats the tapping sound we were hearing.
Here are some more pics of us working on it. Ill keep yall posted and keep the pictures coming. We are confident we will get em going, this is just a little set back.
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144931144932
One of them was in a barn that the roof fell on top of. We had to jack the roof up and try to wrestle the old atc out.
144933144934
So we get them back to his place and choose the one that we think needs the least amount of work and start wrenching. Our goal is to just get the motor to start (none of them had chains) So we check the spark, it's good, then we tear down the carb and clean it. We put the carb back together and it was leaking but it was no big deal because we just wanted to see if the motor would start. Fixing the leak would come later. The motor wouldnt turn over because the plug was bad. So we changed the oil in it, and cut the old rack off the back.
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fast forward to the next day, new chain and plug, we decide to pull the atc behind his 4wheeler to try and get it to turn over. Now keep in mind the motor was making a slight tapping sound and the carb was shooting out a fuel mist when we tried to use the pull rope. But since the rockers didnt have any oil and the carb was probably flooded we didnt think nothing of it. My cousin gets on the atc, I pull him with the 4wheeler to try and start it while he sprays starter fluid in the carb. It's night time and we get under way. I can hear the atc trying to start, back firing and sputtering. My cousin is shouting "Come on you old trailprotrailprotrailprotrailprotrailpro, you can do it!" well i get around his house and I hear him yell "Woah!" I see a light going past me and my first thought was "The head light came on.... It got fire!" I look behind me while driving and i see it got fire alright.... the 3 wheeler was on fire and my cousin was rolling on the ground while I'm pulling a flaming atc through his yard!
We frantically get the fire out but the damage was done.
144925
The wires from the Stator were burnt, the seat (which was already crap) was partly burnt, along with some rear fender damage and the tank got deformed. We figured out what had happend. The timing was off so much on the engine that the carb shot flames right into the starter fluid stream and it set the gas covered carb on fire.
After taking it apart we see what the problem was. Some idiot in the past tried to work on the cam and didnt set the timing right, and the cam bolts were loose and thats the tapping sound we were hearing.
Here are some more pics of us working on it. Ill keep yall posted and keep the pictures coming. We are confident we will get em going, this is just a little set back.
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