my FIRST water pumper......

[saleen_n_around]

Wow, I post pics and no one wants to talk about it! That bad! Yikes!

Happy New Year all....be safe!

[Twilight]

Looks 100% better clean. Lovin it man. Those go for 2k-3k here in WA =\

[Itrike]

Nice find , my old tank will look good on there. With the red tank are you going to stay with red fenders?

[saleen_n_around]

Nice find , my old tank will look good on there. With the red tank are you going to stay with red fenders?

I am going to buy a set of red fenders but am gonna sand and paint my old tank black and eventually do a set of black fenders too!

[SYKO]

PAINT wont hold to that plastic its polytheylene and is a breathable plastic, the fumes from the gas will seep out and near instantly ruin the paint even stickers wont hold to it, better find you a black tank.

[SeaBass8]

Here we go, eDog style......who does nice work BTW....

Suspect forks.....what do ya'll think?

Deffinetly something funky going on there. Pics can be deceiving but in this pic the frame looks a little twisted at the neck.

Great pickup tho. 250r frames cant be too hard to come by.

My 86 200x there wasnt anything on it that wasnt twisted or bent.

Good luck with it.

SeaBass8

[daniel_250r]

get some support under neith the frame, then wiggle the forks and feel for play, if there is it could be an ovalized head tube, wich means the part of the frame that the steering bearings sit in has strechted from impact

[fire1]

I am going to buy a set of red fenders but am gonna sand and paint my old tank black and eventually do a set of black fenders too!

sand and sand then wet sand and that tank will look brand new.mine looked that way when i first got it.

[edog]

Looks good!!!!!

She cleaned up nice!!!

[NewfieBish]

amazing.. i love 250r's and that one is defenitely a keeper, a few new plastics and you got your bike man, have fun on that one!

[Dammit!]

Check out page 2 of this thread for some gas tank restoration tips. Mine was way worse than yours.

[Hoosier_Daddy]

Man, I can't help it but nobody is pointing this out to you so I will. When you say it took a tumble out the back of a truck, do you mean when the truck was doing 70m.p.h.? Because, to be honest, even at highway speeds, if it fell out of the back of a truck and tumbled around, that shouldn't be enough force to twist the frame, bend the forks, twist the triples and bend the axle. It takes a lot of force to do that much damage. Like, jumping it 20 feet in the air and slamming it down so hard it bottoms out severly type of abuse. I don't know how much you paid, but I fear the owner was not entirley honest with you about what the bike has been through. I hope I'm wrong and all is well, but that's a lot of damage. I hope you got a good deal on it.

[mrtwidster1]

Congrats fellow vol on your new pumper. I got my first one a few months ago from sweet willie waterpumper86. I rode it a few times and now it is completely tore down for some needed repaires.
I bought my first air cooler from up around your way a couple years back and I had to stop on 40 on the way back to henderson and fire it up so I understand the anticipation!! I also used my blackberry for this. Post BTW.

[brapp]

hey hoosier daddy i think your wrong i lost a blaster out of the truck at 50 mph and it was nothign but a ball of junk when it stoped cartwheeling. and i hit a treestump at 15mph and complettle broke a 350x frame in half so it doesnt take serious abous ejuty a hard enough hit at the right angle

[saleen_n_around]

I am going to pull parts from arounf the neck to look for wierd stress marks, but visually standing in front, I don't think the nect is twesaked, but you can stand in front and know there is someting wierd, it looks like the left fork is bent toward the right side...oh well, give me something to do anyway. It's not enought to not ride it!