250 elans. who got em and what do you think?

**Custom200** · 11-23-2008, 08:20 PM

I 've been looking at a couple and is thinking of getting one. My buddy has one that his grandfather bought back in the day and it still works great. Thier light reliable and durable. What do you guys think of em.

**leokendall** · 11-24-2008, 01:21 PM

if u can get one, GET ONE.

**leokendall** · 11-24-2008, 01:22 PM

enough said lol

**Custom200** · 11-24-2008, 03:43 PM

I called about 1/2 hour ago. Said it runs good. looks like it needs some mechanical work but mechanically fine. 300 bucks he wants for it. Hopefully i'll look at it before supper and may have it tonight. If its as mechanically sound as he says i'll have an Elan

**Custom200** · 11-24-2008, 08:02 PM

I went and looked at but couldnt se underneth because he had no lights in the shed so I'm going down tommrow after school. From what i seen its in good shape just a few cracks in the hood. (Got a good hood here from a freinds old machine). So If the skidoo looks as good as it seems tommrow in the daylight its mine.

**sandpuppi101** · 11-26-2008, 08:52 AM

The 250 elan,that was the one lunger(single cylinder),was'nt it? If so I had one back in the late 80's.Back then I was into sled's like i'm into trike's nowday's, I had 25-30 sled's at the time, and that elan was one of the most dependable machine's that I had.I picked that one up at a farm auction for 30 dollar's if I remember rite.AHHHH the memories..

**Custom200** · 11-26-2008, 03:32 PM

I bought it yesterday and it runs great. Needs nothing mechanical wise. The only thing that was bad was the hood......so on the way home stoped into my buddies house and bought a perfect hood off him. Also got a full wiring harness handle bars and steering rack plus another muffler because he didnt want it so he through it in. Oh and i got the oragne clutch covers to replace my black scrapped up iones..Just gonna make it look alot cleaner underneath the hood.. Other than that is a little paint on the running board and a small rip in the seat . This is mainly gonna be beating off trail for fun so that doesnt matter much. Oh and it got a kimpex rack that holds a big jerry can thats nice.I got some pics on the camera but it died while i was putting them on the comp so later when the batteries charge i'll upload some pics.

**Custom200** · 11-26-2008, 03:39 PM

Oh sandpuppi101 . This one is a single but there were twin 250 that were 19hp. They were know for vibrating apart .

**hrc200x** · 11-27-2008, 10:38 AM

There was also a 294ss twin cyclinder. I'm surprised the twins were known for viberating apart, usually twins run smoother, now a single cyclinder 250 at idle usually moves about a inch at the head from how hard it fires. I'd say most common problems with them are rusted tunnel under the seat, needle in carb sticks in the seat after it sits all summer long, so gotta take apart carb to free it up, recoils can be a pain, and mufflers can crack depending how much use they've got. Wish they had about a 1 1/4 track and 60 horse.

**Custom200** · 11-27-2008, 02:38 PM

I've read that the twins needed more matience i the long run compared to the singles because of the vibrating issue. I'v know a coupleof people who had them that said the same thing. Lucikly this one isnt rusted out. I have seen alot like that but most of them i've seen have sat outside since new. The muffler was bad but picked one up on the wayt home from buying the skidoo.

**Custom200** · 12-08-2008, 07:57 PM

Just thought i throw a couple of pics of my buddies elan we finsed not to long ago. I did the fibergalss work on the hood. Had the front near the hood hinge destroyed and I also I did the paint. Think it came out nice.