125 Tri moto question....

[Tri Moto]

I got my 125 running, it ran pretty well considering, but it sat for a bit while I waited for the dealer to get me a tube for the rear tire (the rear rims are so wasted the beads leak, too much pitting) after Ii got it of course the opposite tire died!
Anyway I forgot to turn the gas off from the last ride a few weeks before and it must have flooded the piss out of it. I go to pull it for its periodoc startup and it goes half a turn and wham! Nearly rips my arm off. So I pull it a few more times (I thought i may have been siezing) and decide to remove the plug, pull the starter and get a gas bath! I get it all cleared out and it fires right up. When I went to ride it though it was gutless.

Could my forcing it to turn over while it was so severly flooded ( i wasnt really reefing on it, just pulling sorta hard) damaged the rings or anything? It starts and runs well just when you put it in gear to go it bogs and dies. If it ws low out of gas it wouldnt run at all right, I mean itll re right out in neutral...And its an auto clutch so why the hell is it stalling? Anyone have any insight?
I appreciate all help, I got no toy while my LTr is getting its annual!!!

[YT125H]

i have a yt125h or 1981 three wheeler 125 kinda got this same problem or should i say have had many this trailprotrailprotrailprotrailprotrailprotrailpro think is old and got it for no $ and ive spent atleast 600$ on it

so back to your problem well

1. always makesure u turn the gas off make it a habit

2. the reason its snaping back is because it was flooded you think you have it fixed now that its running but the reason it dies is Well have you checked your oil since this happened the tranny oil that is when it flooded all the gas got past the rings from sitting and leaked into the crank case so

3. how to fix drain your oil theres a big hole in the skid plate and the plug is the i think it is 3/4 in could be wrong then make sure you only fill it to the check hole in the side by where you fill it

4. see all that gas thats in it now when the motor gets warm fills in underneith the piston and creates a sort of stoper or preasure build up of gas thats why when you tried to start it it kicked back

i had this same problem once but didnt figure it out right away and it will take your auto matic cluch disk out because the gas instead of oil doesnt lubricate in as much


just helpin u out

any more Questions about these old pos's i have all the ansewers been over mine many times

just get my attention in this post of my

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i would really like to here from you i dont know any one else that has one of these and would like to talk to you

like i said if you have questions i have answers

[yam175]

hey. i dont have the 125 but i have the 175. i got mine for $50 non running. when i did all the usual and it should have started...it never did and it was always hard to pull. i have the whole trike apart right now. just thought id tell yall, cuz theres not to many people with the smaller tri motos around.

[Dan Tenn]

ive got a 175 that i got running, but when you opened it up it was a dog, and had no power. I pulled the plug on exhaust, and it ran great. exhaust was full of carbon. ran it without the plug, and beat the piss out of it till it cleaned itself out. put plug back in and it works great. good luck.

[fishy_inn]

Where is the exhaust plug!?!?!? I have a 125 that doesn't have any balls when you open it up! Could that be my problem? Please say it is!

[MD-3wheelin]

I also have a TriMoto 125 i boughit about a year ago for 50.00 and about a month ago I rebult the top end It ran grate until the throttel got stuck, I parked it and it sat for about a week until i had time to look at it, I got the throttel un stuck and tried to start it but it wouldent do anything, there was alought of gas comming off the motor i couldent tell were it was coming from, so i took the carb all apart, thinking the float had a whole in it but it dident, so i cleened the carb and put it back together. i tried to start it agin but it still woldent start, (it usally starts on the second pull) by then it was about 12:45 so i turned off the gas and went to bed, the next morning tgere was a big puddel of gas under the 3wheeler i keep looking for where it was coming from so i looked in the fill spot for the gear lube and the gear case was filled with gas so i draned it out and filled it with new lube took out the plug and that coverd with gas and pulled the cord and gas spat out, so i blew all the gas out put the plug back in second pull it started right up. I rode it all that day and it ran grate. :rolleyes:

[YT125H]

What he means by the exhaust plug is the spark arrester on the back of the three wheeler where the exaust ends there is a cup that points the exhaust down that has a screen inside there is a bolt underneath (probably 10 mm) take it out and pull ut the spark arrester if this doesnt work tell me 8)