hmm havent looked yet prob around 5400 for a nos 2006.

 

Ouch! Hope your friend has a speedy recovery. That way he can help w/the repairs and work on that down payment on the 450 for you!

Not 230 related? I clearly saw one lurking around in the background of one of those pics. Although, it was kind of hard to see as I whincing looking at those photos!

Good luck with it.

I'm heading back to look for the hardened-steel-acorn-nut-type thing you mentioned to help with my flywheel!

 

haha thanks dude, and good luck with your 230!

if it's of any help to you, they kinda look like this:



this one here is a briggs and stratton tool (i used to work at a small engine shop and we used those things all the time)

 

So I'm thinking about taking a stab at replacing the connecting rod in the LTZ250. The problem is, I can't find one anywhere! Does anybody out there know if this conrod was used in other machines? I'm finding the LTF250, Ozark, Eiger, LTZ400, etc but nothing for the '04+ 250 Quadsport.
I've tried Rocky Mountain ATV, ProCycle Depot, Ebay, etc with no luck. Bike Bandit has the stock/oem rod buy itself but I was hoping to find a kit with all the necessary pieces included. It looks like I can get all the pieces individually through Bike Bandit but in the end it'll cost about $175 which is about $50-$75 more than the aftermarket kits out there.

Any suggestions?


I might pick up a 230 conrod as well while I'm at it to use for practice. This one took a beating along the way. I'm not sure if the crank itself is still salvageable or not - you might be able to make out the gouges in the pic below. Fortunately, I have another cylinder with a fully intact sleeve:

 

WOW! that is some scary damage there!!!

ill do a little looking around for ya...

 

Well I'm finally going on my first long outing on Sunday. It will be mostly crusing through woods, and fields in Pennsylvania.

How long does a full tank usually last on these? Not sure if I'll have enough if I just top off before I go, or if I should bring a 5 gallon can with me too.

 

I've never run one of mine for hours or miles on end, but I will pull them out on the weekends for 2-4hrs at a time and seriously not have to put gas in the tank for 3-4 weekends. I'm all through the range though - idling, slowly cruising around the yard w/the kids and running wide open in 5th on a dirt road. It feels like I'm getting 6-10hrs from a tank of gas. That's on a relatively good tuned bike with a recently rebuilt carb. Although, the other one that has a carb w/a broken choke does just about as good and is tuned like crap.

Ultimately, I'm probably no help

Have fun out there!

 

Thats kind of what I was thinking. I've been running my quad on like a gallon of gas on the reserve side of the tank for a few weeks. I've only been out for mabie 10 or so minutes at a time though, and not every day. Weather report just changed now and they're saying rain starting tomorrow, which figures since I've been looking forward to it for the last month. I really don't want to go out and play in the soup, especially with those big *** V tread tires on the rear of that thing!

 

well it never hurts to bring some extra gas, but my 230 (fairly built; 32mm carb, 243cc, 10.5:1, dg exhaust, etc) usually runs through one tank per day of riding (usually about 7-8 hours of HARD riding). plus it runs a little rich. so id say you should be able to get 10+ hours out of yours.

good luck on your first big trip!

 

It was certainly a washout in my neck of the woods today - hope it was better where you are and not as rainy as they predicted.

What a difference some regular maintenance makes! I rebuilt a spare carb I had kicking around last week and put it on my most put together machine. I also cleaned the airbox and oiled the filter. After kicking the crap out of the thing to get it started, she fired up and ran like a champ! A little tweaking of the idle screw and it's like 1986 all over again.

Quick question for the experts out there:
This carb was completely cleaned out and rebuilt. Before putting it on the quad I drained the gas from the old carb into the rebuilt one so the bowl was probably 1/2 to 2/3rds full. I had the gas flowing to the carb, the kill switch on 'Run' and it seriously must've taken 50-60 kicks for the damn thing to start. Once I got it running and warmed up a little, it kicked over fine on the first kick. What would make it so difficult to start that first time? My other one wasn't even that hard after I redid the top end and put on a rebuilt carb (with an empty bowl). I don't think I flooded it - I couldn't smell gas at least...
Also, this particular machine seems to have low compression. I can move the kick starter with my hand. It doesn't smoke though which is weird. Could that be a valve thing?
My other one is so hard to kick sometimes that the kick start won't move and the machine just rocks in place as I'm putting everything into it.