200e restoration / finally got to ride!pics

[aldochina]

Well i started this project about 8 months ago.I bought the trike for 300.00 it was mostly all there, but was in pretty rough shape. all brakes and bearings were shot, i had to free the brakes with pb blaster and a . Unfortunately I never took any before pictures(I could kick myself in the @^#@^) but heres some pics of her going together.

[aldochina]

I'm having problems uploading my pics its driving me nuts. I shrank the file size from 800-900 KB to 100-250KB and for some reason they wont work.

[aldochina]

got 1 out of about six to upload. I give up for tonight

[sandpuppi101]

Looking good,i see in your list of machine's you have a '83 200E listed .I assume this is the machine.I restored a couple bir Red's a few year's ago,one of my favorite's being the '82 Big red.You can click on my muddogs homepage below to see pic's.Keep the pic's rolling of the process too.

[Solid Snake]

Looks great. Keep the pics coming, seeing restores has always been my favorite thing on this site.

[aldochina]

Thanks for looking guys, sorry theres only a few pics. I'll figure it out eventually. Heres were i stand, all thats left is wheels, which i'm sandblasting now, racks, which I would like to have powdercoated but i have'nt found anyone yet, lever, and perch opposite sides, and the gas tank, which is in great shape, just had some light to moderate rust inside. I bought a gallon of EVAPO-RUST and poured it in before work, I checked when I got home it literally looks like new!!! It wasnt enough to fill the tank so I repositioned it and will let it soak. Anyone who has a rusty tank has got to try this stuff. I'm really impressed.

[aldochina]

These were actually taken about a week ago, but nothing else has gone on since. I unfortunatly broke a perch and lever during installation@$#@^#$.Cheap parts unlimited replacement lever was machined bad the oem cable just did not go in. The tit would go in but when you turned it it would bind up. Instead of mangling my new cable trying to force it I tried to pry it open alittle more and POP! perch had alittle slop in the lever tried to close it ever so slightly with some channies and POP! Chain gaurd has serious work(beating/welding/custom)came out sweet though. Also I did some welding on the frame would have got a new one had I known how cheap you could get them. I think it will be fine though. Also welded the exaust.

[gizmo_22]

looking great man keep it up! Its nice to see the little utility's fixed up.

[Texas 200x]

That's coming out beautiful. Good Work!

[hublake]

Aldochina,
Keep those rebuild pictures coming. I have just started mine. They will be a big help when I go to reassemble mine. It is going to be my winter project. Just finished painting the frame, am waiting for bearings to replace then will go from there. What kind of paint did you use on the tank?

[longbedGTs]

Lookin good man! Are you going with OEM tires?

[ChrisD]

Awsome! I'm happy to see someone do a quality restore on something other than an R, Z or Tecate. Great job!!

[edog]

Man that think is looking great!!!!!

My friends step father has one of those. It needs a resto bad.

[aldochina]

thanks for the compliments guys, I have a ton of hours on this project, Iv'e cleaned every piece of this machine including bolts, on a bench wire wheel, or with scotch brights, and elbow grease. I really enjoyed doing it though, and I know every inch of this trike. The best part is 75% of the parts restoration was done on company time!!!SSHHH. Anyway to answer some ?'s. The tank is original, only waxed it, pic is of best side, other side almost as nice, top is the worst, but not bad. Inside the tank was were it needed work. I would love to go with OEM tires, but I don't think you can get them anymore, closest thing are OEM 250es tires which are still available. The trike had brand new carlisle knobbys on the rear so I will stick with those for now. Here are a few pics of the seat, again no before shots. The seat was in rough shape, foam had to be repaired in to spots, and pan had to have some reinforcement riveted to the one side, it was rusted right through, a few of the teeth for the cover were rusted off but most were there. Got the cover off ebay. I think it came out sweet.

[thefox]

Looks great! Your are inspiring me to get moving on my 200e. Did you have to open up the front forks and rebuild them, they seem to be a weak point on these machines.