idk i checked and cleaned the wires, clean the flywheel and magneto, i give up to the shop she goes on monday!

 

Let me know what they figure out. Curious now!

 

well i got the spark figured out, after the shop charged me to not figure it out, now i have no power.......it had power before now nothing its so slow i can hardly get it moving to shift......but it kicks over and starts fine and idles fine

 

got it figured out, i had to rplace wires comming out of the stator, and also the valve adjustment screw came out of the rocker arm.....grr but now shes running!! no i need to know hoe to get more width and length out of the little 230......any ideas on how to do that? or maybe a swingarm from another machine that will bolt up?

 

Mine just came from the mechanic again



got the cases all welded and strengthened
got a case saver engineered and installed

it's awesome, does wheelies on wet grass

but it blows smoke
mechanic thinks there is supposed to be a restrictor in the oil passageway, to lower oil pressure.....
the rings are fine, the compression is fine
the gaskets are all new
the valves are fine
the valve guides are fine
the valve seals are new

anyone heard of this?

 

Yeah, oil rings are bad and/or the cylinder is worn out of round due to piston flopping around on rod and rod flopping around on crank. I bet if you tear it down you'll find the wrist pin will wiggle in the small end of the rod and that the rod will wiggle on the crank. You can dump $250 into a bore job and get another season or two out of it before the same problem will happen again. Otherwise you'll need to replace the rod and bearings. Your crank may be bent too. Suzuki corrected these design flaws in 89 and 90 in the 250s version with a bigger and longer rod.

 

Cut n weld. That's what I did.

 

do you have any pics of the finished quad with the swingarm a arms on there?

 

Working on that

 

Wow I can't believe this threads still going. I forgot about it. I just found it because I googled stock LT230S compression ratio because I could remember what it was. I'm gonna sell the ATV now. Here's a video of what it's like. YouTube - Suzuki 1985 LT230S