85 tri z project

[firecat]

heres my 85 tha t ive been slowly puttin together. all new top end and many parts off ebay. its finally almost complete .i confiscated the back tires off my 200 so i could run it. so those will be history now that is runnin.. ihad an issue when i first got it running. it was running real rich and boggy up to about half throttle. the carb was cleaned well and had stock everything in it and i spent half a day trying to figure it out.i tried the airscrew , needle position and nothing worked.:mad: so today i decide to pull the pipe to look at the piston to see if their was any wear on it. all good. so i shake the pipe and here some rust flakes in it.so igo to blow it out with air and the freaking pipe was loaded with a mouse nest :eek: i took a pile about the size of a soft ball oughta their . holy shat got it all out and walla it runs runs awsome. got it out with a drill and a coat hanger. just thought id share that when youve tried everything u can think of check your exhaust . my buddy had a sled and found his muffler loaded with dog food one fall when he was getting it ready for the winter.

[Yamaha_Rules69]

I can relate to that! I bought a 185s last year, had spark, was getting gas, just could not get it to fire at all. I had my brother hold his hand behind the muffler, and he said there was NO flow at all. I pulled off the muffler, and gave the rope a good rip, and it popped right off. I had to actually cut the muffler in half with a hack saw to get all the mouse trailprotrailprotrailprotrailpro out of it, then have it re-welded.
Very nice tri z by the way. I am also working on mine which I picked up not too long ago. Getting closer to completion. You say you got some parts on ebay? I bet we battled over at least a couple of them in the bid wars. How do you like the Z then? Does it handle awesome or what? Nice work.

[firecat]

havent really got to ride this one yet its got no brakes yet . ihad a 86 years ago and loved it it was a great trail rider i regreted sellin it so igot this one.

[MonroeMike]

Good to know, nice Z too.

[gutterworks129]

Looks good man. I like the sticker on the boost bottle. Most are washed off. Is that a stock kicker?

[firecat]

its a 250r that i monster garaged but it was half the $ of a z kicker and it works perfect i think their a little shorter also.

[gutterworks129]

its a 250r that i monster garaged but it was half the $ of a z kicker and it works perfect i think their a little shorter also.

Haha "monster garaged" I like the term!