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Duner / Re: Skat Trak

« on: April 29, 2026, 07:45:19 PM »

No longer an option to send them your tires to have them repaired or to have a custom set made.

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Wanted / Re: Oem cylinder heads

« on: January 04, 2026, 03:32:48 PM »

I looked last night & the head with the broken elbow is actually an 87 HA2 head, the damaged HB9 head I have was the one I cut in half to make that cylinder plaque for Tony. I'll get the HA2 head & kicker sent off this week.

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Wanted / Re: Oem cylinder heads

« on: January 04, 2026, 02:46:26 AM »

I think I have an HF1 head with a broken water fitting I'll send you. I might have an HB9 head that has a bunch of pitting in the dome I can throw in as well. I'll ship them along with the 350x kicker I still haven't sent.

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Duner / Re: Sand Tires Unlimited

« on: December 04, 2025, 11:14:05 AM »

I've seen these in a larger size on the front's of Jeep's & other sand drag four wheel drive's but never saw them on an atv... Loren, I have a set of old Pro-Wedge's I'll bring one of these day's & you can try them out. I used to run them on a 350X but switched to straight paddle's & never looked back.

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Pics and Vids / Re: Cool Pics/Videos Thread

« on: December 04, 2025, 11:04:32 AM »

That's an insane amount of money for that 500!!!!! There's an 01 CR500 still in the crate displayed up on a shelf at the local Honda shop. I heard the owner was offered 20k for it & he just laughed. Now I see why.

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The Mad Scientist / Re: DMR float bowl

« on: November 25, 2025, 11:51:50 AM »

The main jet can already be replaced without removing the carb or the float bowl but being able to swap pilots without removing the bowl is a nice feature.

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Carburetor, Intake, and Exhaust / Re: Internally rusted pipe fix

« on: August 24, 2025, 12:38:10 AM »

The beauty of the Evapo-Rust is that it's water based & reusable. After soaking the pipe & silencer I rinsed them really good with water, blew them out thoroughly than heated them up with a heat gun to evaporate any residual water inside than I sprayed boat engine fogger in the pipe to prevent any flash rusting. Overall it worked very well, didn't hurt the chrome plating & made the pipe usable again.

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Carburetor, Intake, and Exhaust / Internally rusted pipe repair

« on: August 23, 2025, 11:14:41 PM »

I have a TRX-5 pipe that ended up with heavy internal rust due to a coolant leak. I didn't realize the pipe was still full of coolant when I parked the R for about a year. It rusted the pipe & the inside/core of my FMF Q-silencer. The turbine core portion of the silencer was almost completely rusted out & non salvageable. Looking on here & other places for idea's on how to fix the pipe/silencer I saw a post by rsss396 about making a wire brush out of a piece of cable to remove the scale from inside the pipe. It worked great to get the scale out & prep in for the rust remover. I started with the silencer as a test piece & it came out looking like almost new so than I went onto fixing the pipe. The chemical I used is CRC Evapo-Rust & I gotta say that stuff works amazing. It's a bit on the spendy side at $28/gallon but the end result was worth it considering how much used 5 pipes go for these days. For the silencer stinger/core I made a trough out of 2x4's & lined it with 6 mil visqueen, that took 2 gallons of evapo-rust to fill. Same procedure to soak the pipe but I used 2 2x4's stacked on edge. If I was going to do it again I'd use 2x8 or 2x10 to make the trough. For the pipe it took 6 gallons which it would be cheaper to get a 5 gallon bucket + 1 gallon. Soak time is dependent on how bad the rust is but I let everything soak for 6 days.

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Suspension and Chassis / Re: DWT update

« on: April 04, 2025, 11:25:50 AM »

Joe I have 3 sets of front red labels, 2 10x5's & 1 10x6. Offsets are 3/2,2/3 & 3/3. If you want to trade a set of blue labels for any of those red label sets let me know.

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Pics and Vids / Re: Race pic (random) Atc250r

« on: March 29, 2025, 11:40:21 AM »

Salem indoor speedway.  Salem,Oregon

I didn't know they still held races at the Salem fair grounds. Looks like I'm going to go watch some local TT racing soon. Back in the 80's & 90's they had arena cross there, I never raced but had friends that did so I was there a lot. Those were some good times.

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Other ATV's / Re: 2005 trx450r

« on: January 11, 2025, 10:20:16 PM »

I bet that's a blast in the snow with those tires.

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Lounge / Re: ATV safety alert. January 1988

« on: December 09, 2024, 11:29:45 PM »

Luckily my dad got an 85 350x for me a year earlier in 1987 when I was 12. I wrecked the hell out of that trike more times than i can remember, what a great experience to have been able to grow up in that era & get to ride the machine's everyone was so afraid of.

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TT/Flat Track / Re: trx250r nerf bars

« on: December 07, 2024, 01:36:39 PM »

Are you only looking for brand new or will an old set work? The oldschool DG nerf bar's are fairly compact & might work for your combination. I could take some measurements off mine if that helps.

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Lounge / Re: Parts washer/ultrasonic cleaner

« on: November 20, 2024, 07:26:46 PM »

I use a solvent pan with kerosene & numerous tooth brushes & pipe brushes to clean parts. It's the most labor intensive & pain in the ass way possible to clean parts. For some reason at 49 I still haven't learned & must enjoy punishing myself because I also polish all my aluminum parts & wheels by hand with mother's & painters towels. Fancy tools that do most of the work for you sure are nice though.

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The Mad Scientist / Re: Flywheels

« on: November 18, 2024, 11:25:59 AM »

Their a little late to the party. Even though that ignition works on the LT I doubt many people will get one for their LT considering the resale on those things is about what a used 00-01 cr250 ignition costs.