bsdwiz
10-16-2013, 08:34 PM
Hi,
Awesome site and I've already learned a lot from it!
I grew up riding dirt bikes and quads but I just bought my first 3 wheeler. A blue 1985 225 dx. It is awesome! It's in good shape and runs almost perfect. I purchased it from the original owner and it came with all the original paper work and shop manual. I even have the original bill of sale. I'm going through it doing some maintainence that I'm sure hasn't been done in years. I changed the oil connected the gas tank (he had a small mock tank on it as it was winterized and he didn't want to put fuel in the real tank which was clean and empty). All the plastic is good, no smoke out the exhaust, engine sounds good and starts first or second pull, shifts great and idles great. The airfilter was nasty, the metal inner tube frame was rusted so I ordered a new one and am waiting for that to arrive. In the mean time, I want to change the final drive oil. I see 80 weight hypoid gear oil or 80w-90 is recommended. I went to loosen the drain and fill bolts but damn they seem tight! I couldn't get them to budge and I didn't want to keep cranking for fear of stripping them. Also, at low RPM say going low RPM in 2nd or 3rd gear the clutch seems to slip for a second or two until the revs get a litle higher in which case it grabs and takes off. It never happens if I run it a bit more aggresively. So my two questions are 1) Any recommendations to get the bolts out to change the final drive oil? And what's up with the clutch issue I describe? When I'm ripping around or even driving moderaly aggressive it's never a problem but when I'm going slow and easy it seems to slip sometimes. Any help would be appreciated. Oh, and it came with a brand new axle still in the box.
Thanks!
Awesome site and I've already learned a lot from it!
I grew up riding dirt bikes and quads but I just bought my first 3 wheeler. A blue 1985 225 dx. It is awesome! It's in good shape and runs almost perfect. I purchased it from the original owner and it came with all the original paper work and shop manual. I even have the original bill of sale. I'm going through it doing some maintainence that I'm sure hasn't been done in years. I changed the oil connected the gas tank (he had a small mock tank on it as it was winterized and he didn't want to put fuel in the real tank which was clean and empty). All the plastic is good, no smoke out the exhaust, engine sounds good and starts first or second pull, shifts great and idles great. The airfilter was nasty, the metal inner tube frame was rusted so I ordered a new one and am waiting for that to arrive. In the mean time, I want to change the final drive oil. I see 80 weight hypoid gear oil or 80w-90 is recommended. I went to loosen the drain and fill bolts but damn they seem tight! I couldn't get them to budge and I didn't want to keep cranking for fear of stripping them. Also, at low RPM say going low RPM in 2nd or 3rd gear the clutch seems to slip for a second or two until the revs get a litle higher in which case it grabs and takes off. It never happens if I run it a bit more aggresively. So my two questions are 1) Any recommendations to get the bolts out to change the final drive oil? And what's up with the clutch issue I describe? When I'm ripping around or even driving moderaly aggressive it's never a problem but when I'm going slow and easy it seems to slip sometimes. Any help would be appreciated. Oh, and it came with a brand new axle still in the box.
Thanks!