I like how your seat came out.
You should see the abortion I performed on the old 350 cover.
No I haven't seen your tank yet but I have seen Mr. Cleans work so I have no doubt It's top notch. And give yourself some credit, you're doing a great job, I really am looking forward to seeing the finished product. This thing was beat and left for dead when I found it so good job on keeping another one alive.
Tionesta Trikes ATC 450R
86 250R
86 Tecate-3
83 ATC 70
85 Big Red
81 KLT 200
85 250SX
Tricky Dicks Cagiva WMX 200 sold
Trikefest survivor 07, 08, 09, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20
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I only got a little done yesterday. This radiator grill frame was cracked as they sometimes are so I dropped some weld across the crack carefully. Ignore the ugly bead, as our Tig machine is in another building being used currently so I used the mig machine which is hard to get adjusted right when the crack was only 1/4 inch long.
Grind and grind some more....
Ready for paint. More to come later. I couldn't inspect the frame for cracks until I got it completely stripped and we only have a blast cabinet at work that won't hold larger items so I bought a portable media blaster from Harbor Freight for $35 bux and I'm headed to Tractor Supply for some coal sand. Media blasting is not cheap around here as they want almost $100 to blast my frame. I need to reign in my spending a bit on this one so I may even paint my own frame pending quotes on materials and paint.
Jam out with your clam out.
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Tionesta Trikes ATC 450R
86 250R
86 Tecate-3
83 ATC 70
85 Big Red
81 KLT 200
85 250SX
Tricky Dicks Cagiva WMX 200 sold
Trikefest survivor 07, 08, 09, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20
My feedback: http://www.3wheelerworldforums.com/s...dback+eric250r
I had a couple cracks in my radiator brackets aswell fixed the same way.
250r rules
Well the UPS guy showed up today and dropped off my birthday present from my wife. She's friggin awesome but that goes without saying.
Smells like teen spirit
I got two weeks to top this when it's her birthday. Wish me luck.
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Your going to have to shoot for the moon and then some to top that pipe. And your repair job on that swingarm is top notch, going to turn into a really cool build.
Trikes Owned:
1983 Honda 200x - Durablue Axle
1986 Honda 250r - +2 westcoast
1984 Honda ATC 70 - Piranha 140 swap
1983 Honda 200e - Stepdads
One year you will need to come to the Invasion and watch Kenny tune a 250r after installing one of his pipes. His words, "keep it simple".
Just did it at the Invasion in February, slapped the pipe on a stock motor, cleaned my stock carb, needle in the stock setup and 1.5 turns on the air fuel and rode it all week with no further adjustments.
Very impressive indeed. I have a couple more pipes in the works. The last set I will have him make will be
Ok I've been waiting on parts to come in so I was blasting what I have that needs it and painting stuff.
I shot the rear hubs...
So then, this came in the mail. $35 for an 86 TRX 250R front master with "leaky sight glass"... Normally, I'd keep looking but once I learned you could get new sight glasses for cheap ($10 shipped) I'd been waiting for an opportunity to try to replace one.
I dug out the old plastic, picked out the o-ring, and popped the outer ring out of the master.....
Once I got the remnants out, I started cleaning the window hole...
I like my masters in natural aluminum finish so I dipped in acetone to clean the goo out and to lift the paint that the leaking brake fluid didn't already peel...
Scrub a dub dub my master in a tub
New sight window and oring....Also came with two extra lid screws for some reason
Cleaned all the corrosion out and it's like a whole new master. Dropped in the new o-ring. Took the sight glass and pressed it into the master using a .750 piece of round stock in our little arbor press.
Booyah! Everything else guts-wise was in good shape but I'll be getting a rebuild kit anyway. The lever wasnt even floppy yet.
$35 shipped for master
$10.50 shipped for sight glass
$40 roughly for a rebuild kit
So I'll have a new master for a little over $85 and probably never have to touch it again for as long as I have the trike.
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Last edited by ironchop; 03-23-2017 at 08:36 PM.