all the posts seem to be a bunch of useless blah blah blah. A guy cant get any tech advice?? this is the 2nd time I posted about some tech help, and all I see when I come on the board is Z400 got beat by a little old lady or Who has the cheapest pipe pricing or even more moronic "do you like the yellow or white z400 better" type posts. I figured you suzuki gurus would take the time to try to help me diagnose my 230 problem. or mabey there are no mechanically inclined types on this forum? I cant believe that most, if not everyone on here has not been in a 230S motor at one time or another, or had problems getting one to run right.

 

All types of people come to ATV connection forums even your type.

 

I looked at your post and someone tried to help you! Ok, check the basics. Do you have good spark,fuel,compression and is it in time? It sound like the valves are tight.

 

Trikeaholic,

Buy a Clymer Service manual. It's been my best friend and usually has the info I need. Not always though.

 

Trikeaholic

Cyber troubleshooting and tuning is tricky.
You never KNOW what is really going on because you have to depend on someone else’s correct or incorrect observations and procedures.

Did you do what Ernie suggested?
With what you told us so far, Ernie’s is right on.


Cam timing and valve adjustment are the first things I would check. If you have all the other basics working right.

I am not familiar with your 85 or 86 lt230s cam chain; could the chain come off the lower sprocket when doing a top end rebuild then be a tooth or 2 off?

 

yes, it did come off the lower sprocket, but I cannot see how that would affect it if it was put back on, and then the rest of the valvetrain was assembled according to the TDC marks on the cam sprocket. I know cyber troubleshooting is difficult. What I was after really specifically was "oh yea, the coils on those are junk, happened to mine" or something of that nature. It seems to have every element needed to run. IM sure it does have carb problems.

 

Was the crank position TDC when you reassembled the cam sprocket and chain or
are there marks on crank sprocket to line up?

Like I said before I am not familiar with your lt230s but the cam timing principals, as you know, are the same in any 4-stroke.

Just trying to help.
jmho