If I don’t have enough of projects going on at the same time , another one found me , I bought a 1996 TRX300A 2WD off Craig’s List cheap and lucky as I mentioned on another thread , with the intention to use it for parts , the young guy’s ‘s Dad was trying to get it running and said he couldn’t get fire and thought it was a stator and the rear end is blown out with teeth broke off the ring , no battery , no brakes , seat ripped , needs tires , and those are the bads , but there is alot of goods , the frame and engine are clean , front end tight , bike looks like low hours and road not dirt use , plastics almost perfect , the tank is not dented and has been lined with some white / cream colored liner and looks like a good job , nice racks and bumper , stock aluminum 12 inch rims , got the motor running and it sounds really good , with no battery it started with one kick once the problem was found , some one appears to have over loaded the 12 aux power supply on the handle bars and melted wiring , after pulling the wires apart and changing the fuse it fired up , was planning on repairing the harness till I started cutting back the loom , it melted all the way back to the battery but you couldn’t see it on that end , I can see why the old man never found the problem as I thought for sure it was the CDI as it is a 96 , the year of the bad CDI’s , but after taking off the front fender to get to the CDI , the burned wires was right there ———
So I have a 96 wiring harness that is sitting on the bike and half the old one unplugged , a TRX250 rear end ready to go , got the material yesterday to recover the seat and unstapled and cleaned the seat pan , got two use front tires and need to swop to the aluminum rims
No cosmetic restoration here , just mechanical repairs and a few upgrades , I think this is going to be a diamond from the rock
