1984 ATC300R Fooler build

[bigdaddyvw185]

Last year i got my hands on a 84 250R for 340$ But it had a blown top end....little did i no it was not just any 250R, it had a 300R top end, i did not even realize what i had purchased as this was my first 2 stroke and first full size trike. So i posted up some pics over on .org and shocked by what i had in my hands. I was not going to do a full restoration project when i first got the trike, but once i realized what i had those plans went out the window and a full restoration was coming!!. well that was back in April and the project has since come almost full circle. some parts of the trike were in rather rough shape back when i picked it up. well here are some pics of how it sat when i grabbed it and then i will post more of the entire process up to how i have it sitting now!.

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now here are some pics of the transition from Fugly to fresh


All of the yellow has house of color Metallic Red flake added (my best friend is a paint specialist and he did the paint job but did not mention that he was going to include the flake! lol, needless to say i was pumped when i first saw them!

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[hawaiirider]

nice trike, i had a 83 with a hondaline 300 kit on it, was in immaculate shape but after talking to the guys at s.com i decided to sell it right away as there is absolutely no replacing the rings/piston when they wear out
i would have had to go buy a 250cc stock jug and loose my shirt on it, so away it went...
they go for alot of money tho

[bigdaddyvw185]

I am a big boy and 310 ish pounds, so when it came time to pay attention to the rear shock i was not about to just leave it as is, So since i had a full build thread over on .ORG, i commented if anyone new a good place to have a rear shock rebuilt..... Manbearpig came threw in the clutch and suggested i send it to suspension 101 out in cali, so i got on the phone with george over at suspension 101 and then a couple days later the shock was on its way!. ended up having it re valved for 360 lbs and a new Eibach spring to match. i have not yet ridden with it since my build is not yet finished but i have sat on it installed on the trike and the bad boy barely flexes!

[bigdaddyvw185]

here are some pics of it all assembled

[bigdaddyvw185]

nice trike, i had a 83 with a hondaline 300 kit on it, was in immaculate shape but after talking to the guys at s.com i decided to sell it right away as there is absolutely no replacing the rings/piston when they wear out
i would have had to go buy a 250cc stock jug and loose my shirt on it, so away it went...
they go for alot of money tho

i no what ya mean man, you have to search hi and low for pistons but they ARE out there if ya look hard enough.
i was able to get my hands on a New OLD STOCK 300R cylinder, 76mm piston, rings, 76.25 rings, 76.50 piston and rings, and then 76.75 rings. i am just buying them as i find them. but you deffinatly have to look for them and in some cases pay for
Them!

[bigdaddyvw185]

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i was going to go with the racers toy store mod with the original 300R cylinder that came with the bike if i couldnt find a 76.75 piston, a couple months back...... but when the New old stock cylinder came my way that thought process kind of went out
the window. i was having one hell of a time trying to get my hands on a 76.75 NOS piston. was able to get my hands on the
rings but no luck yet on a piston, i am still looking just to have on the shelf just to have for the potential need in the future.

[ONEBAD350X]

wow that is awesome!! It looks great and will sound even better!! Nice work!!

[bigdaddyvw185]

i paid some attention to the exhaust system also, the head pipe was rusting its coating away and then the silencer was in
pretty rough shape also, so i sanded the head pipe down then painted it high temp black, then polished the silencer up real
good and re packed it with some fresh packing. then did away with the original tip mounting hardware and made my own, i used 3 stainless steel machine screws that screw into a riveted on backing plate that installed in the inside of the tip. i still have to re paint the DG symbol on the silencer in red....just have not gotten around to it.

[bigdaddyvw185]

about a month after i found this trike i found another 84 atc250r in long island (about an hour and a half away from me) for a
wopping 250$, needless to say it did NOT look pretty and was missing its gas tank, BUT it did have its rear working brake
caliper and the engine DID start right up after i swapped the clean carb from the 300R trike, it in no longer intact and together today seeing that i took the engine off of it to swap onto my clean 300R's frame...this was before the NOS 300 cylinder came my way by the way..... only problem with this engine was that the clutch would not engage. but i have it torn down at the moment to figure out what the deal with it is..... someone out it back together way wrong, the clutch retaining nut was not even tight!.
the damn swing arm pivot bolt was seized solid into the swing arm, so i had to cut the swing arm bear carriers half to hell in order to get the swing arm off to take the engine off the frame, as you can see in the pic's
but needless to say i got some good parts off of it and it helped out a heck of alot with my 300 build. i still have it sitting up stairs in the garage, all i would need to do is buy some swing arm bushing's from 3WW shop and press em into the swing arm and the frame / swing / rear axle / rear suspension would be good to go for another build.

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then as i am sure many of you guys have encountered.....finding a New old stock 2nd gen atc250R shift lever is almost as hard as finding NOS 300R parts..... so i gave up on looking for a NOS shifter ( my shift lever was beat its splines were toast and would no longer grip the splines on the shift shaft.) SoOoOo i made i made my own new shifter, i went out and bought a new shift lever off of the 85/86 R's and cut the spline section off and also cut the folding toe section off then transplanted them onto the 84's shift lever. and PRESTO new shift lever and its a little better than stock because of the folding toe!! lol.