Canucker
07-02-2013, 09:06 PM
So I bought a trike a few years ago for exploring, I wanted a 2 stroke, I love 2 strokes, and I was going to get a dirt bike or something but then in my searching I came across trikes and was like OH MY GOD I always wanted one of these.
They are super dangerous death machines you say? PERFECT. That's right up my alley.
Anyway, I had a chance to buy a 250R for 950$ and I have since found out that it was a steal of a deal and I was stupid for passing up on it but c'est la vie.
I found a yellow Yamaha that had been on a farm for years and bought it for 350$ It started right up, worked amazingly, I drove it on a couple trips and dropped it off to a buds to store for me. Well the battery tray collapsed from rust and the battery ripped out and the Yamaha got parked in a field for a year and a half while I was doing other stuff IRL.
So I went to get it last week expecting it to be in tip top shape, and instead it had been sitting for a long time. Which sucked. So I took it home, dicked around with it a bunch and got it to fire up again, took it out this weekend and ripped around on it all weekend.
Had a blast, rolled it a few times and got thrown off when the front wheel dug in while I was getting pulled after the battery died and the pull start cord snapped. But it doesn't idle, just stalls.
So now I'm hooked. It is just so much fun that now I want to put some money into it, get it working beautifully and maybe even pull it apart, get the frame powder coated and whatnot and fix all the rust.
The farmers didn't give me any ownership or anything like that, just a cash deal. They told me it was a 200. I cleaned it today (first time I had ever seen it clean cause I bought it all muddy) and found some info on it. The engine stamp and steering column both say 24W 106563, and the steering column says manufacture date 7/83.
http://i.imgur.com/Cu0NC1z.jpg
Here she is, I pulled the seat off, I need to re-upholster it, it's trashed. On the edges of the yellow plastic on the seat are some black plastic mud guards sticking out, they are trashed too. Can I buy them somewhere?
http://i.imgur.com/NnjoTlW.jpg
Rusty Glory!
http://i.imgur.com/4HlDQjb.jpg
The bush bars got all mangled and I've bounced on them a few times to bend them more or less back to where they should be
http://i.imgur.com/hE0rbi8.jpg
mangled foot rests and I was jumping on the rear brake pedal trying to un seize it and it bent too.
http://i.imgur.com/87dVKFO.jpg
engine stamp
http://i.imgur.com/Xa8e22x.jpg
steering column sticker
http://i.imgur.com/r5KwAeh.jpg
what is that black plastic rectangle for?
http://i.imgur.com/wdzIise.jpg
What is this lever on the engine for?
So first, what the hell kind of trike is it? I downloaded the YTM200 manual and it has parts about chain and no electric start. This is shaft driven with electric start.
The rear brakes are completely seized, hand control is going to need a new cable and cable housing, i can probably unseize the footbrake with a torch and get the linkage all smooth again.
Can I buy a rebuild kit for the rear brake? Do I need to take the drum all apart and have a look before I even start bothering with it? I don't much care about rear brakes, the shifter provides all the engine braking you really need (well at least for my having fun style of riding.)
Where can I buy these cables from or do I need to make custom ones?
The black plastic mud guards around the seat, I wouldn't mind new ones.
I think it won't idle from the carb being gunked up from sitting. I messed around with the adjustment screw while it was running and all the way in and all the way out had no effect. A buddy told me there was probably a grain of sand in the jet or blocking the affect of the adjustment screw. I'm reading through this, http://www.oscarmayer.net/atc/manuals/articles/CARB_REBUILD_HELP.pdf, was just planning on taking it all apart, documenting the way everything went together and cleaning the snot out of it and putting it back together.
You can't really buy the greatest cleaning product in the history of the world anymore, carb cleaner, well not in canada. Where can i order some from or what works as well?
I was going to weld patches onto the holes in the exhaust, pretty sure that should add a bit more power with the proper back pressure. Any reason why I shouldn't do that? Hell I could probably get away with just muffler cement.
The shifter shifts with minimal throttle from 1st 2nd and 3rd, but you need to be on the throttle hard to get it to shift to 4th or 5th, and by the end of the weekend it was taking a bit of effort to get it to shift. Could that just be because of a dead battery, or do I need to do something to the transmission?
How do I drain the oil?
What kind of oil can I put in it? it said 20w40 in the YTM manual but nowhere sells that oil.
The fork seals are blown, they still bounce but have leaked grease all over the forks. Do I need new forks or can I buy a rebuild kit for them?
The master control on the handlebars just has a big hole where there is supposed to be a RUN/OFF switch. Is there some after market control thing I could buy and switch in there. The handlebars got bent when it got dragged, where do I get handlebars from? I would like larger wider handlebars as I am a large guy.
And I think that's everything, what other cool stuff is out there for this trike? Any aftermarket stuff?
Thanks for reading!
They are super dangerous death machines you say? PERFECT. That's right up my alley.
Anyway, I had a chance to buy a 250R for 950$ and I have since found out that it was a steal of a deal and I was stupid for passing up on it but c'est la vie.
I found a yellow Yamaha that had been on a farm for years and bought it for 350$ It started right up, worked amazingly, I drove it on a couple trips and dropped it off to a buds to store for me. Well the battery tray collapsed from rust and the battery ripped out and the Yamaha got parked in a field for a year and a half while I was doing other stuff IRL.
So I went to get it last week expecting it to be in tip top shape, and instead it had been sitting for a long time. Which sucked. So I took it home, dicked around with it a bunch and got it to fire up again, took it out this weekend and ripped around on it all weekend.
Had a blast, rolled it a few times and got thrown off when the front wheel dug in while I was getting pulled after the battery died and the pull start cord snapped. But it doesn't idle, just stalls.
So now I'm hooked. It is just so much fun that now I want to put some money into it, get it working beautifully and maybe even pull it apart, get the frame powder coated and whatnot and fix all the rust.
The farmers didn't give me any ownership or anything like that, just a cash deal. They told me it was a 200. I cleaned it today (first time I had ever seen it clean cause I bought it all muddy) and found some info on it. The engine stamp and steering column both say 24W 106563, and the steering column says manufacture date 7/83.
http://i.imgur.com/Cu0NC1z.jpg
Here she is, I pulled the seat off, I need to re-upholster it, it's trashed. On the edges of the yellow plastic on the seat are some black plastic mud guards sticking out, they are trashed too. Can I buy them somewhere?
http://i.imgur.com/NnjoTlW.jpg
Rusty Glory!
http://i.imgur.com/4HlDQjb.jpg
The bush bars got all mangled and I've bounced on them a few times to bend them more or less back to where they should be
http://i.imgur.com/hE0rbi8.jpg
mangled foot rests and I was jumping on the rear brake pedal trying to un seize it and it bent too.
http://i.imgur.com/87dVKFO.jpg
engine stamp
http://i.imgur.com/Xa8e22x.jpg
steering column sticker
http://i.imgur.com/r5KwAeh.jpg
what is that black plastic rectangle for?
http://i.imgur.com/wdzIise.jpg
What is this lever on the engine for?
So first, what the hell kind of trike is it? I downloaded the YTM200 manual and it has parts about chain and no electric start. This is shaft driven with electric start.
The rear brakes are completely seized, hand control is going to need a new cable and cable housing, i can probably unseize the footbrake with a torch and get the linkage all smooth again.
Can I buy a rebuild kit for the rear brake? Do I need to take the drum all apart and have a look before I even start bothering with it? I don't much care about rear brakes, the shifter provides all the engine braking you really need (well at least for my having fun style of riding.)
Where can I buy these cables from or do I need to make custom ones?
The black plastic mud guards around the seat, I wouldn't mind new ones.
I think it won't idle from the carb being gunked up from sitting. I messed around with the adjustment screw while it was running and all the way in and all the way out had no effect. A buddy told me there was probably a grain of sand in the jet or blocking the affect of the adjustment screw. I'm reading through this, http://www.oscarmayer.net/atc/manuals/articles/CARB_REBUILD_HELP.pdf, was just planning on taking it all apart, documenting the way everything went together and cleaning the snot out of it and putting it back together.
You can't really buy the greatest cleaning product in the history of the world anymore, carb cleaner, well not in canada. Where can i order some from or what works as well?
I was going to weld patches onto the holes in the exhaust, pretty sure that should add a bit more power with the proper back pressure. Any reason why I shouldn't do that? Hell I could probably get away with just muffler cement.
The shifter shifts with minimal throttle from 1st 2nd and 3rd, but you need to be on the throttle hard to get it to shift to 4th or 5th, and by the end of the weekend it was taking a bit of effort to get it to shift. Could that just be because of a dead battery, or do I need to do something to the transmission?
How do I drain the oil?
What kind of oil can I put in it? it said 20w40 in the YTM manual but nowhere sells that oil.
The fork seals are blown, they still bounce but have leaked grease all over the forks. Do I need new forks or can I buy a rebuild kit for them?
The master control on the handlebars just has a big hole where there is supposed to be a RUN/OFF switch. Is there some after market control thing I could buy and switch in there. The handlebars got bent when it got dragged, where do I get handlebars from? I would like larger wider handlebars as I am a large guy.
And I think that's everything, what other cool stuff is out there for this trike? Any aftermarket stuff?
Thanks for reading!