My 75 buck yard sale ATV!

[RRR]

Just a 0.5 bore and she will be on the trails!!!!!! It was in poor shape what I get it but I could see waht a little know how could do. It is a 2000 Yamaha Bear Tracker 250(230cc) needed rings?piston kit over bore and a little love LOL Any one esle a "junk fixxer"?

[Usta Bee]

My brother once bought a '67 GTO for $500 that was beyond repair....by the time we got done parting it out he made $3000 on it.

[Looooeeee!]

Our daily driver '74 Mercedes was out rusting under a tin shed at a cranberry farm I worked at. The more I looked at it the better it looked.

$200 passed hands, and a phone call to the previous, previous owner got a salvage title. for free. Another $300 in parts got the engine/tranny running. It's an odd one, used to smoke and burn oil, but it's slowly getting better fuel mileage and the smoking is gone. It's a veteran, I estimate it's got over 350K, the speedometer was worked on in '87 at 198K.

I'm keeping it, it's paid for it's less than stellar fuel milage by being more reliable than any of my previous cheap Eurobeaters.

[Gerald]

Ya, I once bought a clean '63 Buick Skylark with only about 23K miles on it for $25. This was back in '76 so the car was 13 years old at the time. The owner told me the engine was frozen and it'd been sitting for years. When I got it home and pulled the heads I found the broken-off tip of a big screwdriver stuck end-first into one of the pistons (how'd that get in there?). Removed the offending evidence, put the heads back on, and started it right up. It billowed black and blue smoke for a good 20 minutes or so but then the rings loosened up and it stopped smoking.

Then there was the nice '77 Honda Civic CVCC with ~55K miles, paid $50 for it in 1987. Fella had done some engine work on it and couldn't get it to run for the life of him. He was going to have it hauled to the junk yard.
I got it home, put the spark plug wires on in the correct order (they were reversed), and it started up and ran great :D . That car gave super gas mileage too.

[RRR]

Seat came yesterday! So far in my 75 buck ATV it has cost me 119.25 piston/ring kit. 34.99 for gasket/seal set. 34.99 for a seat and will cost 40 even to be bored/honed and I have yet to get to ride it. :( I did set on it and go Vroooommmm ,vroommm a time or two. :D

[Punkie]

I used to buy old motorbikes for a few quid from people at work, all hondas, never more than £25. some I rode, some I sold. some I rode into the ground and then sold for more than I paid in the first place. mostly all they needed was a battery, oil and in one case a patch welding on the silencer.

[Tram]

I like to fix junk occasionally..

Seems most of the time I am fixing very nice things I myself turned to junk by trying to fix it.. ;)

Jeff
www.CommonSenseRC.com

[RRR]

I like to fix junk occasionally..

Seems most of the time I am fixing very nice things I myself turned to junk by trying to fix it.. ;)

Jeff
www.CommonSenseRC.comWell it was junk parsi(did I spell that right?) But I could see what it could be with just a few bucks. The inside of the motor looked like new, Just the oil ring(s) had failed.

[RRR]

Had my first ride today!! Runs great...

[RRR]

Well as of now all in total I have 350 bucks in my 2000 Yamaha 250 Bear Tracker 2x4! Also!!! I found a 2002 Arctic 300 2x4 on the cheap($225) and have 400 in it (needed a few parts) runs great but smokes a little. Its needs valve seals. Easy fix but a pain in the rump! So it will be next summer before I will do that along with an 0.50 bore job(with parts $150). So all in all I have $750 in two nice full size 4 wheelers... Not bad. :D