Ask the Editors: Help Me ID My ATV
Any of this look familiar?
Let us start by saying identifying an off-brand Chinese ATV in this state is extremely difficult. Why? because unlike Japanese, American, Canadian and Korean machines, the Chinese and Taiwan units don’t bother stamping their frames or engines with manufacturer info. Why don’t they? Because the manufacturer to them isn’t all that important. That may sound ridiculous but they don’t actually produce their own equipment. What they do is create clones of clones of expired Japanese patents under dozens of different “brands”.
There is some good news and some bad news with this practice. The bad, as you are discovering, is that identifying a single unit is all but impossible. The good, though, is that if you can figure out what you have, all of the parts will be compatible regardless of which brand they happen to be.
About the best we’d be able to do for you is apply some deductive reasoning to narrow down what it is you’re likely looking at here. For starters we know two things from the onset- it’s an automatic and it’s liquid cooled.
The automatic transmissions come in just about every engine size imaginable but the liquid cooling is typically limited to the “larger” Chinese engine displacements. The largest offered tends to hover around the 300cc mark but the most common liquid cooling displacement tends to be the 250cc class machines.
Were we to guess, we’d suspect what you have is a clone of the Lifan 250cc automatic, liquid cooled 4-stroke package. In the hunt for parts, that is where we’d begin.
