<div class="FTQUOTE"><begin quote>Originally posted by: 270quadsportguy

i have the clymer and it does suck but it works .. Funny thing is my new rod has a ?? bronze bushing that is 1mm smaller than the hole its in maybe that is whats different bout rods ?????? who knows im lost at this stuff i guess. What i do know is that the only way i can get rings is to buy a whole piston kit for my 265 cc kit. going to try 4 stroke tech as mylast resort</end quote></div>

I'm still pretty sure the 273 kit is a 250 sleeve, piston, and rod with a bronze reducing ring inserted in the big end like you said (so it will fit the smaller 230 crank). Either that or is awful coincidental that the bore of the 250 and the stroke of a 230 make a 273!

Call weisco tomorrow and I'm sure they can get you rings for a 1990 lt250s.

 

my local suzuki shop sells the genuine suzuki manual but is like 50.00 and at the time i didnt have that kind of cash.......rockymountain atv has the book too

 

Back to the rockers... Both look identical, with the exception of the lil block on the back of the exhaust rocker for the compression release.. Bikebandit only lists the exaust rocker part number

 

<div class="FTQUOTE"><begin quote>Originally posted by: 270quadsportguy

my local suzuki shop sells the genuine suzuki manual but is like 50.00 and at the time i didnt have that kind of cash.......rockymountain atv has the book too</end quote></div>

I just ordered some stuff from rockymountain a few days ago and I was getting free shipping so I thought I would get one of those "real" repair manuals they sell. Nope! They don't have them for the 230. Every other suzuki they have, but not the 230. I would happily pay $50 for the real deal. Not sure I want to give $30 for a clymer, but if that is all that is around....

 

<div class="FTQUOTE"><begin quote>Originally posted by: PoolGod230

Back to the rockers... Both look identical, with the exception of the lil block on the back of the exhaust rocker for the compression release.. Bikebandit only lists the exaust rocker part number</end quote></div>

Not sure what you are saying... The intake and exhaust are the same part number??? So, if you needed new rockers you'd have to get the exhaust one for the intake with the little block?

 

Dont know where ur from,but in warren ohio theres a place u can get it and bout anythink else u needed in stock.EXCEPT FOR BIG BORE RINGS!!!!pm if u want there #....As for the Connecting rod,i got it from wiesco on the ebay for 85_94 LT 230S cr 175is# 43.87 with tax and shipping,but that was also last year. needing to send vince a crank to have rod installed no time to split cases.,

 

I am not sure, look at bikebandits OEM page, they don't list a part number for the intake rocker just the exhaust!

I have many new and old rockers (both intake and exhaust) and I can't tell the difference except the thing for compression release on back of exhaust..

 

They must be all the same except the bump on the back. It would save production costs if they were.

 

<div class="FTQUOTE"><begin quote>Originally posted by: JustRandy

They must be all the same except the bump on the back. It would save production costs if they were.</end quote></div>

I hope so, I'll break out the micrometer and compare the two.
Oh I counted the teeth on the clutch, left the piece of paper with the numbers at home though..... Have it for ya at lunch.

 

Cool! Lunch will work.

After playing around with dynosim I see how reducing exhaust backpressure is about the most significant power increasing mod I can do. So, curious me, I decided to cut apart my exhaust and see what's inside. Let me tell ya, the inside looks nothing like what you'd think from looking at the outside. The cone does nothing. The primary tube runs right thru the cone,,, I thought it would stop at the cone, but it didn't. Then, there are 2 more baffles inside the big cylinder right before the spark arrestor. And last in the chain is the baffle you can see from the outside at the tail. I took out the 2 baffles and left the spark arrestor and tail baffle and welded it back up. My spark plug is black now which I consider a good thing because that means I'm getting more vacuum at the carb due to reduction of backpressure. So, I put in a smaller jet and got it running right again. I don't know how it really runs yet because its been raining here for 2 days, but I'll be sure to post back.