1985 350x Build Up

[Aulbaugh]

I picked up the cheetah's front and rear for my 350x and they look great. I got mine through cheetah but the 3ww shop has the rear tires.
http://shop.3wheelerworld.com/index....product_id=309

[sittinguy]

About the 22in tires. Yes, I will say for easy riding in the woods the old stock 350X tires were great, very cushy. Can't get them anymore... But when you start to really get down. The taller tire would roll to the side on hard side slides on the gas, causing the bike to lean into your turn making it east to lose it. Now a more squarish firm 22in won't do that, BUT they are usually heavy. Heavy sucks. I like to be able to pop the rear end around and slide a little. Unsprung weight kills performance. The old 22in tire had superior top speed, the tire would grow at top speed with the centrifugal force.
I had some 18in rears once for a while. WOW, alot of fun in the trails. Absolutly NO top speed, but so fun. I could spin donuts on pavement.
I didn't know about the reproduction 250r tires,, thats great. They were the best.

[salisbury4573]

Put the top end back together today. Timing was easy, got it first try.

Motor is back in the bike, gotta modify the intake where it connects to the neck due to the new gussets. Still a ways to go, hopefully running and riding next week.

[salisbury4573]

[salisbury4573]

Have gotten further along, but have not taken pics yet. Have the intake fully assembled now, have the wiring harness installed and had to reem out the holes on the exhast flanges to fit over the 3/8 studs I put in the head where the old ones twisted off.

Had to take a little break from the action to rebuild a transfer case for my jeep, but its almost complete. Once done, I will have an opportunity to finally kick this bike over and see how it runs.

I did take a better look inside the fuel tank the other day and its super SUPER clean, there is a pinhole that someone JB welded and its holding fine, so I am likely gonna just stick with that for now so I can get back to riding ASAP.

I also have a 400ex header that I want to cut and weld to fit this bike, but in the interest of wanting to ride soon, I am delaying that upgrade for now.

More pics soon.

[salisbury4573]

This is as the bike sits today. It is assembled, but there is much work still to do. I am running into a lot of small issues, brake bleeding, carb adjustment, decomp level adjustment etc. But the biggest issue I have right now is the lack of a rear skid plate and a bent rear brake rotor.

Does anyone know of a rear rotor that swaps directly onto this bike? Searching for a replacement only came up with "unavailable" results.

Thanks

[Shep1970]

Nice looking bike, 86/87 200x share's the same rear brake rotor, Not 83-85
hope i put up these pics right.
So there's one option for you.
Shep

[Shawn Powell]

Nice ride! For your brake rotor there’s a couple on eBay at the moment for about 60$
And for skid plates also eBay look up PRM skid plates 350x. Still a few in stock after the close down.


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[salisbury4573]

Thanks for the info on skid plates and rotor. I was able to bend the rotor back into shape, but its never going to be perfect. I assume it will push the pads apart when the bent section rolls thru the caliper and I will never have the braking power in the back that I would have with a straight rotor. But I will run it for a while and see how it goes.


Got a set of 20x10-9 MassFx tires from ebay for $99 shipped. Really happy about that, will see how they hold up over time.





Got my decomp. lever adjusted and now the bike kicks over super easy. Still runs and has great compression, so I didnt bend valve doing this...lol

Disassembled and dipped the carb the other day, literally found a spider nest in the carb. Was running still, just hard to start. Found it had a 42 pilot and 138 main, went back to stock 45 on the pilot and went one jet up on main to 140, starts a lot easier, but when i quickly give throttle, it stutters, gotta warm it up and fiddle with the air/fuel screw, I set it at 1-3/4 out and have not made any adjustments.

Got a set of renthal bars of ebay for $25 shipped, really excited to put these on and see how they feel on the bike. The stock bars on the bike are bent and need replaced/ kept as spares or maybe i can attempt to straighten them sometime in the future.



Looking at front tire options now, thinking Kenda.

[Ranvier]

Almost there....keep going....sounds like you will know that bike inside and out. Nice updates.

[BOB MARLIN]

I like those kenda front tires, but some people don't. They claim that the tire throws up rocks into your face, but I don't seem to have that problem on the trikes I have them on. Also I think they may be listed as 2 ply but they seem to be much thicker than that.

[salisbury4573]

Pics of the bent handlebars and the renthal bars that I put on. They sit a little low, but I think they look good and they feel right when riding. Not bad for $25!