1500ram12
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Decided to take on a project that hopefully isn't to far gone and get it moving.
My father in law has a couple of quads that have been sitting for some time (13 year's) outside uncovered. He said I could take one and see if I could get it running for my son.
So, I grabbed a 1987 Polaris trail boss 250 r/es 2 stroke. I don't have before pics (I suck at taking project pics). Going into it I new the carb was going to issue. The brake lines were seized, throttle cable and choke cables were seized. Electric starter is froze. Pull start was acting weird. Once I get it running right I'll replace the starter. (Would love to do it now. My arm is sore from trying to get it started.
So I've got all the plastics off. Removed the brake and throttle cables drained and cleaned the gas tank and oil tank. Sourced used brake cables ( just a single lower brake cable new is $40-60) found a used carb with throttle cables and choke on eBay off a 93 250. Replaced the oil and fuel line/filter. Replaced the rewind spring in the pull start ( if you don't get it in right on the first shot it's a pain). I also pulled the exhaust off to check for mice. Haven't put it back on yet.
Was able to get it fired up yesterday. But will only idle. And she smoked and was spitting some nasty brown oil/gas out. After it sat for a minute gas starting spilling out of the overflow and possibly leaking from the bottom half where the floats are. And a little was coming from the carb air intake side. So I pulled the carb out and removed the bottom bowl cleaned it. I put the original bowl back in because the floats seemed to move more freely. Then couldn't get it to start again. Almost seemed like it wasn't getting fuel. Then I moved to replacing the brake line's. Easy fix. So now it has front brakes.
Today I picked up some clear tubing and a new filter so I can see how the fuel is flowing. To me it almost seems slightly air locked but maybe that's how it is. Fired it back up. Smoked for a second then cleared up. Stopped spitting stuff out the exhaust. But still will only idle. Bogs out and will stall or will stumble and go back to idle depending on how fast I let off the throttle. And once again after shutting it off I had gas coming out the vent/overflow. So not sure what's going on there. After looking for something on one of the work benches I found a little plastic washer that I'm pretty sure goes to the replacement carb. The needle sits on it. Must of fallen out when I was looking to see if I could swap the origin cap where the throttle cable goes through. I'm hoping that help with the bogging issues.
I have a carb rebuild kit coming So Saturday or Sunday the carb will be coming back out and replacing a few thing's and try again. I do have new spark plugs. I left the original one in so if it got fowled up during the first starts I wouldn't just be throwing money away.
Here's how she sits currently. The gas tank and oil tank are just sitting on top for easy removal
2018 2500 6.4L Hemi Tradesman
My father in law has a couple of quads that have been sitting for some time (13 year's) outside uncovered. He said I could take one and see if I could get it running for my son.
So, I grabbed a 1987 Polaris trail boss 250 r/es 2 stroke. I don't have before pics (I suck at taking project pics). Going into it I new the carb was going to issue. The brake lines were seized, throttle cable and choke cables were seized. Electric starter is froze. Pull start was acting weird. Once I get it running right I'll replace the starter. (Would love to do it now. My arm is sore from trying to get it started.
So I've got all the plastics off. Removed the brake and throttle cables drained and cleaned the gas tank and oil tank. Sourced used brake cables ( just a single lower brake cable new is $40-60) found a used carb with throttle cables and choke on eBay off a 93 250. Replaced the oil and fuel line/filter. Replaced the rewind spring in the pull start ( if you don't get it in right on the first shot it's a pain). I also pulled the exhaust off to check for mice. Haven't put it back on yet.
Was able to get it fired up yesterday. But will only idle. And she smoked and was spitting some nasty brown oil/gas out. After it sat for a minute gas starting spilling out of the overflow and possibly leaking from the bottom half where the floats are. And a little was coming from the carb air intake side. So I pulled the carb out and removed the bottom bowl cleaned it. I put the original bowl back in because the floats seemed to move more freely. Then couldn't get it to start again. Almost seemed like it wasn't getting fuel. Then I moved to replacing the brake line's. Easy fix. So now it has front brakes.
Today I picked up some clear tubing and a new filter so I can see how the fuel is flowing. To me it almost seems slightly air locked but maybe that's how it is. Fired it back up. Smoked for a second then cleared up. Stopped spitting stuff out the exhaust. But still will only idle. Bogs out and will stall or will stumble and go back to idle depending on how fast I let off the throttle. And once again after shutting it off I had gas coming out the vent/overflow. So not sure what's going on there. After looking for something on one of the work benches I found a little plastic washer that I'm pretty sure goes to the replacement carb. The needle sits on it. Must of fallen out when I was looking to see if I could swap the origin cap where the throttle cable goes through. I'm hoping that help with the bogging issues.
I have a carb rebuild kit coming So Saturday or Sunday the carb will be coming back out and replacing a few thing's and try again. I do have new spark plugs. I left the original one in so if it got fowled up during the first starts I wouldn't just be throwing money away.
Here's how she sits currently. The gas tank and oil tank are just sitting on top for easy removal
2018 2500 6.4L Hemi Tradesman