Over the last few weeks I restored a 81 atc 200 for my wife. it turned out really nice and she loves it. It was a very very low hour trike to start with, the guy I got it froms grandpa bought it new and ran maybe 4 or 5 tanks of gas through it. So neadless to say it looks like brand new.
Well my father in law comes up to our place last week and see's my wife's ride and how nice it looks, and asks if I remember his old 3 wheeler. I said yea why? He tells me if I want it I can have it if I can get it out of the shed. I tell him I will for sure get it from him. A couple of days later we head down to my wife's parents place to get it. I walk to the door of the shed and can not ever see it. It was in the very back corner of the shed buried by 15 + years of junk. My wife and I started moving and staking stuff to get the old girl out. It took us over an hour of steady moving stuff to get back to it, and I still had to pick it up and over some old car and truck engines that I had no where to go with. We got it out though and loaded it in the truck. There are a # of pics before and some after.
My wifes dad bought it new in 83 used it on the farm until 88 when it needed an engine overhaul and some other work done. He brought it into a local Honda dealer to get rebuilt.( with the dairy farm he did not have time to do it himself) In 1988 it cost $800 to get the engine completly overhauled,a new exhaust which is a Cobra, new chain and sprockets, new front brakes and some other small things done to it.
This is where the reason for it being in a shed come in. When he went to pick it up it did not idle right, they told him it would get better with use. It got worse. It would only run with the choke on all the way. The Honda dealer said to bring it back and they would only charge him $100 to look at it. He was busy and upset with the whole deal so he parked it.
I got it home here and got it running badly only with choke on. I had to pry the slide out of the carb and the carb seemed oval and not round. I put a diffrant carb on it and it ran a little better but not good. What was wrong was the intake was cracked all the way around. Some one at the dealer ship back in 88 must have dropped the carb bolted to the intake and messed them up.
I plan on restoring it to like new, repaint the frame and any thing else that is painted, since it was my wifes dads.
I really did not need another project but it will be a nice old trike to have.
The worst part was it was stored away with about 3 five gallon buckets of cow crap on it, so the paint is all gone on the lower parts and the engine is a little discolored. Well here are some before and after pics.
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