250rmanfmf
05-11-2003, 09:46 PM
here is my story, as some of you know I have a 85 250r project and its yellow black and chrome. finally got around to everything put together. I go yesterday to start it and she wouldnt fire. so I pull the plug and check spark. NO SPARK. I spent over $7,000 into the trike and no spark. anyways. I check the connections and still no spark. so I figure my coil or my Stator is bad. I need the trike in about 11 days for mermoral day weekend for the biggest party in washington state in the Moses Lake sanddunes. so I am pressed on time.
Lucky, my brother in law has a 85 250r that is not up because he is getting his axle chromed, so I go and pull his coil and stator to dignoise my problem, well when I went to pull the stator cover off my bike, the thing was half full of nasty oil!!! I bought the bike over a year ago and I was stupid and never checked the bottom end. so now I am thinking the stator is bad. so I swap both my brother-in-laws stator and coil just to see if I get spark. I got zapped. but when I put the flywheel over the stator I tightened down the nut only hand tight.
Anyways so I go to see if it will start just to see if it would. and if it did then I would just pull the kill switch, on the 4th kick the bike started and reved like a mother (keep in ,mind the motor was just rebuilt and has never ran since). so I go and pull the kill switch, NOTHING HAPPENED, so I pulled the spark plug wire (NOTHING HAPPENED) it was still running, by then I am crapping my pants, so I turn the petcock off and 4 seconds later , as the bike quit the flywheel FLEW off and flew across my street landing in my neighbors yard.
After regaining my breath I knew why it was reving so high, is because when I had the carb polished, he took out the choke and idle assembly and then just screwed it back in.
I didnt bolt the flywheel on really tight and didnt put the cover on because I was just going to see if it ran and then I was going to kill it and go from there but then that all happened.
just some advice, always bolt everything down as if you were going riding with it, and if you are going to spend $7K on a bike, check the bottomend of the motor because Now I really dont think my R will be done for Memoral Day weekend and dont have the cash at the moment for anymore parts and I will have to wait a WHOLE ANOTHER year until I can show it off to a million people. I will have to take my Raptor now but the thing is, there will be like 100 raptors out there, and not one bike is like my 250R :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :(
Lucky, my brother in law has a 85 250r that is not up because he is getting his axle chromed, so I go and pull his coil and stator to dignoise my problem, well when I went to pull the stator cover off my bike, the thing was half full of nasty oil!!! I bought the bike over a year ago and I was stupid and never checked the bottom end. so now I am thinking the stator is bad. so I swap both my brother-in-laws stator and coil just to see if I get spark. I got zapped. but when I put the flywheel over the stator I tightened down the nut only hand tight.
Anyways so I go to see if it will start just to see if it would. and if it did then I would just pull the kill switch, on the 4th kick the bike started and reved like a mother (keep in ,mind the motor was just rebuilt and has never ran since). so I go and pull the kill switch, NOTHING HAPPENED, so I pulled the spark plug wire (NOTHING HAPPENED) it was still running, by then I am crapping my pants, so I turn the petcock off and 4 seconds later , as the bike quit the flywheel FLEW off and flew across my street landing in my neighbors yard.
After regaining my breath I knew why it was reving so high, is because when I had the carb polished, he took out the choke and idle assembly and then just screwed it back in.
I didnt bolt the flywheel on really tight and didnt put the cover on because I was just going to see if it ran and then I was going to kill it and go from there but then that all happened.
just some advice, always bolt everything down as if you were going riding with it, and if you are going to spend $7K on a bike, check the bottomend of the motor because Now I really dont think my R will be done for Memoral Day weekend and dont have the cash at the moment for anymore parts and I will have to wait a WHOLE ANOTHER year until I can show it off to a million people. I will have to take my Raptor now but the thing is, there will be like 100 raptors out there, and not one bike is like my 250R :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :(