200x kickstart slip..ready to smash it

[trashy250]

so this is gona be the 3rd time in my pos 200x motor..can somebody help me out here..so i got the trike.. rebuilt the motor top and bottem did a bit of a race motor w a high comp piston..ok needless to say the kickstart slipped..i could deall. it grabed like 75% of the time..then the kickstart return spring broke..so i ordered that and found the upgrated other spring(even had the red paint on it)..the gears look perfect..i put my motor back together today with the new parts and even bought a stock piston..now the kicker slips pretty much every kick..anybody have ideas.

[swifty]

auto x it!! i feel your pain i paid $800 for shop to overhaul my 85 and 1 week kicker shot, removed 10.25 piston went stock piston again 1 month shot again

[2fiftyR]

buy a Lifan motor and be done with it

[200XMichigan]

Did you undercut the kicker gears? There's an article in the world class help section about it.

[trashy250]

yea idk yet what im gonna do i can get the new gears from ronnies.com for about 120..do you guys think i should try it out or just sell it and put my money into my 350x..just sucks cuz i got 2300 into this 200x...hahaha

[200XMichigan]

I would fix the gears if you got that much into it.

[trashy250]

yea thats what im thinking dude...shes a constant heartbreaker..but hey could ya send me that link on undercutting the gears ive never seen it...

[200XMichigan]

http://www.3wheelerworld.com/showthread.php?57972-What-makes-200x-kick-starters-slip-Several-soloutions-inside!

[camoweasel]

I was in the same boat as the original poster years ago. I had a 200X rebuilt with a brand new top-end having the kicker fail a week later. It's a frusterating feeling knowing that the entire bottom half must be torn down to fix the problem. But I contribute most of the problem to myself for not knowing how to kick it properly.

In my opinion, compression has little to do with the lifespan of the 200X kicker gears. It's making sure you kick it properly that ensures the life of those gears. Believe it or not, there is a right and wrong way to kick a 200X.

The wrong way is to slam the kicker as hard as you can from the top position. What happens here is when the rider uses hard blows on the kicker lever, he or she is not allowing enough time for the gears to mate properly and this is what causes the gears to wear prematurely over time. This causes the gears to start skipping over one another which results in early failure.

The correct and proper way to kick over a 200X is to depress the lever all the way down slowly feeling for the compression stroke. If the compression stroke isn't availible on the first slow downward movement, bring it up slowly one notch at a time and feel for the compression stroke. By finding the compression stroke, what your doing is keeping constant pressure on those kicker gears, giving them less of a chance to slip because they are already engaged. Even with a 10.25 compression piston, I found on my 200X, it was easiest to fire the motor with the lever at the half way position and with a firm, sutle kick; NOT a hard blasted kick!

The 200X, in my opinion is one of the easiest engines to kick over. Even with my Wiseco piston, I never had to forcefully kick it but rather just use my body weight and push down. This is how you ensure the longest life out of your kicker gears.