85' 250R Kicker Spring Broke?

[NewfieBish]

Hey all, my buddy took my 250R for a run today and about half an hour later he came down my yard pushing the bike.. he said the plug fouled (which it did, nothing suprising) and he had spent a nice while trying to get it started, in any case, now the kick starter goes down, and wont come back up, the spring is broke I think. Just looking for advice, I wanna keep riding the bike until I can get enough parts together to make it worth tearing into it to rebuild, is it ok to drive the bike with the kicker bungee corded to the frame in the proper position? And if anyone knows off hand, how hard is it to replace the spring?

Thanks Again!

[bigred44]

I've had the kicker on my XR500 bungeed for a couple months now. Just make sure you have it on there good and functional to keep the kicker up where it needs to be or it will kick back on you. As far as replacing the spring i dont think it is too hard, just have to take the clutch cover off and everything is right there.

[NewfieBish]

thanks man, i guess i can go a couple of months for sure then :P

[sirceo26]

i wouldn't go a couple of months. The spring is probably like 20 bucks and its only like a 15 min job.

[Dirtcrasher]

Every breakdown is different and you could have a piece of spring floating around in your case, which could REALLY ruin your week :lol:

Thats a spring even I have kicking around and the only other thing you need is a gasket, lay it on the side and you don't even need oil.

I'd pull it apart and ask in classifieds if someone will send you one. I have the whole gear set from a crate motor so I don't want to give up the return spring. But, if I have an old one your welcome to it. I'm sure someone has a couple kicking around :beer

I tell guys that if something doesn't start in a few kicks, pop start it or get it jetted right, replace the plug etc etc etc.... But kicking and kicking just beats the crap out of our old and rare parts.

EDIT - Replacing the spring is chicken, but honestly - 50% of people who remove kicker guts cannot get them set back correctly. It's easy, half the job is merely lining up dots on gears and the shaft but there is a trick to getting the return spring loaded properly.

I have to get a camcorder cable and take a video of how it's done because allot of guys have issues with it.

[NewfieBish]

thanks DC, i was thinking the same way about the whole peice of metal floating around in the motor haha, id say ill get a spring and do it up.. would a spring from one of the early TRX250R's or CR250R's work? just wondering, it'd be nice to buy a new one

[NewfieBish]

Just wondering because i got one ordered.. will a kicker spring for an 86 TRX250R fit a 86 ATC250R motor?

[Dirtcrasher]

Why did you order a TRX spring (I do believe it will fit though). Is the ATC spring gonezo?

Like I said, we probably have a couple hundred of them between all the guys, you would just have to post in classifieds.

[NewfieBish]

i never even bothered askin for the ATC spring, weird hey? haha, but yeah they are interchangeable, the part numbers are the same. I shoulda asked about the trike spring, that's it i guess, its $12 taxes in, nuttin to it.

[jeffatc250r]

Flip that pig on its side, take the pipe off. You can take the r-s clutch cover off without taking the rad hoses off, providing they havent already been trimmed back. By flipping it on its side, you wont lose any oil either. Buy the gasket if your ordering the spring in case the old one tears. Dab oil on one side of the new gasket before you put it back together. This will allow you to re-use the gasket later on down the road, it wont stick to both sides and tear.