Well, I saved the life of a trike today!

[plkmonster2]

I was riding up at my neighbors old house, which is abandoned now, and I see this old three wheeler out in the field. It looks okay, not in bad condition. Well, I get out my tools, and take off the carb. The neighbors said I could do what I want with it. The carb is full of crap. I clean it out, after drilling through the crud in the starter jet, lol. I take the carb back up there, along with a can of wd 40 and some gas. I spray the wd over the slide and linkage, and put it all back together. I let it sit, and bleed some gas out. It seems all good. I give it a push down the hill, and I hop on. It pops, sputters, and with a blow of black smoke, it fires! The old 1983 185s hadn't been run in 10 years! It ran pretty good. I babied it for a few minutes, then opened it up. It seemed like new! The motor had tons of compression. Well, I drive it back, and once the neighbors see that I got it going, heck, they swap it up as fast as they could. They get a free threewheeler, and free mechanic work! I was pretty pissed. They are so darn lazy that they couldn't clean out the carb to get it going again, but when I fix it up, it's like a fake thanks, as they drive off, and leave me in a cloud of dust. Well, thought I might share my story of rebirth of a three wheeler, and to vent off some of my anger that my neighbors put me into.

[200Xjapan]

I'd show up at their doorsteps with a "restoration" bill ! Good work man!

[twgranger]

I would of just took off.

[jason200x]

go find the three wheeler put some dirt in the carb and then when you go back to fix it say the motor is shot

[200xalltheway]

cool that you got a tattered 3 wheeler goin agian. how cum didn't they pay you? were they broke or what :?: :?:

[yamahaman89]

go find the three wheeler put some dirt in the carb and then when you go back to fix it say the motor is shot

:-D pretty good idea :-D id be so mad but good job :-D

[plkmonster2]

lol, dirt in the carb.. hehe... I'm pissed though. No, they aren't broke, they thought of it as a favor. They're like thanks for the mechanic work... They ask to ride it, so I let em, and they just ride away, and take it home. There is another one up there, but now they want it too for spare parts. Darn... oh well, the motor is seized in that one. It seems like they are too dumb to pay me. They sit around on their butts, and wait for this to come along. Now their denying ever saying I could have it, that they just asked me to fix it. Now lets see, if I were to fix it for them, wouldn't there be a little transaction involved? lol, I spent a good 3 hours of my life fixing it!

[hondatrikesrule22]

This sounds like a job for.....JUDGE JUDY!!

[plkmonster2]

haha, lol, no, sorry Judge Judy is a little too harsh... lol, she wouldn't believe me without proof. It does piss me off, and I'm sure you'd all be pissed off if it happened to you. I'm just glad I got it going, but wish it was mine.

[ste-pel]

i would have took the hole thing home and worked on it then they wouldn;t know that you got it running and if they saw you riding it you could say that the 3 wheeler the you gave me i got it running again

[Groundworx]

That sucks. Sorry to hear that. At least you saved another trike. The way you describe these people though, you will probably get a call before long saying that something is wrong with it and asking you to take a look at it. When that happens just remember, "paybacks are a b!t@h"

[StangLX302]

Is that you selling all the parts of this "saved trike" on Ebay?

Same story:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eB...tem=2467821958

[StangLX302]

[J.D.]

StangLX302, are you smoking crack? Plkmonster lives in Washington, the guy from the auction lives in Wyoming.

Too bad those people treated you like that plkmonster, I'd go up to there house with a bill for 50 dollars, and if they don't wanna pay, destroy the 3 wheeler.

[StangLX302]

If you don't think these two stories sound EXACTLY the same, you must be the one that's smokin'!!!!!!!!!!

Here: Read BOTH stories. Then you tell me.

This is a running engine out of a 1982 Honda ATC200. The 3-wheeler that it was in sat for a long time in a field. It hasn't been used for about 10 years according to the people that owned it. I cleaned the carb and put some oil in the cylinder before I started it. It started right up and smoked for a minute or two and then cleared up and didn't smoke after that. It runs well and has good compression. The transmision shifts fine through all the gears and the auto clutch works as it should. This engine would fit in all 185, 185s, 200 and 200s ATCs. It is complete except for the pull starter which is listed seperate. Buyer to pay shipping via UPS ground. Happy eBaying!

I was riding up at my neighbors old house, which is abandoned now, and I see this old three wheeler out in the field. It looks okay, not in bad condition. Well, I get out my tools, and take off the carb. The neighbors said I could do what I want with it. The carb is full of crap. I clean it out, after drilling through the crud in the starter jet, lol. I take the carb back up there, along with a can of wd 40 and some gas. I spray the wd over the slide and linkage, and put it all back together. I let it sit, and bleed some gas out. It seems all good. I give it a push down the hill, and I hop on. It pops, sputters, and with a blow of black smoke, it fires! The old 1983 185s hadn't been run in 10 years! It ran pretty good. I babied it for a few minutes, then opened it up. It seemed like new! The motor had tons of compression.

Funny how the SAME thing happened to two DIFFERENT people on the SAME week with the SAME model 3-wheeler????????????????????????