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Well that is exactly my train of thought. Earlier in this thread I wasn’t sure what to do, pretty demotivated. After browsing the local classifieds and seeing what people are asking for these machines $$$ (all due to COVID) I figured I may be better investing more $ into it than selling and buying something else. At least I know the machine and what had been done to date at that point versus buying something else and maybe starting from scratch. I know it’s a Honda and it’s reliable, it ain’t no CAN-AM IRS machine. But it’s going to do me for now and I hope it stays running lol. I do have to say thanks to all on this thread that chimed in and helped. If it wasn’t for the help and input from the members not sure I would have ventured down this path. Everyone’s help is greatly appreciated! I won’t be going anywhere’s, hope to post up in the Custom Thread I started and still clean up a few things I intended to do. I do have a ball joint on hand lol I need to replace too! But I’ll be around reading threads, helping and most likely getting help! Good bunch of folks here, reminds me of the Jeep forums!

So, I finally got the nerve to pull the fuel tank and see if there was anything I could do to fixe the fuel level indicator/sending unit as it would occassionally flash 1 to 2 bars only when full and then no bars. I pulled the tank. removed the sending unit and discovered the pivot shaft was pretty floppy from 33 years of wear. I shimmed it up with some stainless steel shim material and got it to start showing level again. Cleaned out some rust and water in the fuel tank and put it all back together and now it's happy. I decided I needed to pull the fuel tank when I look inside and the color of the gas was opaque. foggy. Not right. Now it's clear after getting some crud out of there. I also added a heal shifter lever as my upper foot hurts when I shift with the toe shifter.

Was riding up at camp. Tried to cross a beaver run by a dam. Ice was plenty thick but the water dropped a foot since it froze. Ice collapsed so I backed out.

After my engine and carb rebuild I had the overflow hose drip. I removed the carb and cleaned out the float area with good results. Then had the drip come back, this time I opened up the overflow screw and let it run for a few seconds. I ended up putting one of the inline fuel filters like I have on my golf cart and mowers. Never had a problem since, change the filter when it looks dirty. I had the tank off initially when rebuilding everything and tried to flush out and dump upside down, but never felt I got everything out. I didn't want to try to remove the fuel shutoff assembly as I have read horror stories when removing the 2 bolts. If there is a problem and the nuts inside the tank drop off there is not much you can do to put the shutoff valve back on. I figure everything working as it is now so don't fix it if it ain't broke I go by......

Visited Idaho's state Capitol building while visiting my brother, amazing structure built in 1905. Tshirt weather in Boise, drove up to local ski hill, had a free ride down, guy running it was pretty funny, what a great acriviry for families. Mount Hood from the Columbia Gorge, Multonomah Falls in the Gorge.

Just wanted to update and give another thumbs up for the Shindy carb kit...it arrived as advertised and the quality is excellent...the kit even had an extra o-ring (tiny one) and a couple bigger ones I assume for different models. Carb went together great, very nice fit and finish on everything in the kit. As to the OP, my drain screw didn’t look the greatest but I got it cleaned up and hope that fixes my drip. I’m going to take @Fishfiles and @Goober advice and clean my gas tank before I put the carb back on. Probably gonna replace the fuel line too. Will keep y’all posted...

This is why you point a camera at your other camera....lol

Smarter than the average Bear, eh!!!

Welcome to the forum. If you google "youtube 420 crank" there is a 4 part series that shows a complete tear down of a 420 Rancher bottom end. Your 2012 500 Foreman motor is the same as the 420 motor in that video. You can also download the factory service manual free if you look right below the header at the top of the page under "service manuals" You can do it with the engine in the frame, but it's much easier to do it with the engine out. If you want to try with the engine still installed, wash the wheeler very thoroughly and stand it up on the rear rack, and then remove the front cover on the engine. You can see what needs to be done in the videos I mentioned.

Yeah you gotta put it in and ride it just like slime. The only difference is starch drys fast when it get enough oxygen. So it will roll around until it finds the gap and then when it starts to seep out the hole it hardens and seals. Its is mostly used with sand dunes riders. And works really good on beadlock wheels. But it will work on non-beadlocks aswell. I have it in all 8 of my tires. My mx and my xc tires. All are beadlock but the mx fronts. Before sta-flo i had 3 tires that would air down very slowly. 2 of them were my mx tires that sit off the quad most of the time. I just checked them after sitting in a stack all winter and none of them lost even 1 psi. All the xc tires on my quad are the same way. Not even a single psi lost sitting all winter.

I paid $900 for mine, 88 TRX350D Foreman. Sold the snow plow that cam with it for $200. So, $700 starting. Then the spending began. Lol. engine top end overhaul including bore and new piston, rockers, chain, gaskets, carb kit, front tires, some missing plastic, oil filters, handle grips, led headlight, both clutches, intake valves, seat, seat cover, totaled another $1028.56. So I'm in mine for $1728.56.

Mel & TB.. its coming soon.

Don't have cotton wood here, but I will burn pine, spruce, cedar, it all burns in my stoves....lol

I'm sure there has been some birds eye maple gone into my stove.... And I'll burn anything that fits into the stove....

Hah! Been there. Love the stuffed teddy bear thingy in the back.

Shine a small but bright flashlight into the tank. There are two screens inside the tank. one on the primary and one on the reserve suction line. Use about 18 inchesof weed wacker line or (careful!) a piece of cut brake/throttle cable to ream the suction lines. Sediment and rust can clog these lines. i have had to use a drill to directionally bore thru a clogged line-careful! Dont drive the cable thru the intake screen! the reserve suction line cannot completely empty the tank so you must occasionally drain the tank to remove condensate. this is my tank after a vinegar and BB wash

I paid $2200 for mine and had around $700-800 US in my engine project. And like you have a good reliable machine hopefully for many years now, at least the engine...

I know guys that put more than that into one , it should last you a long time , you could have paid that much for one and was taking a chance on what you got , you know what you got and learned how to work on it , all kinds of ways to look at it , prepping that shift motor is a plus -- don't run off now that it is running , stick around

Heres the manual for TRX 250 Recon 05-11 hope it helps someone out, fun little machine TRX250 Recon 2005-11.pdf

Got myself another project to get done

Had an old oil drum out in the back 40, decided to make a little wood sleigh..... Just a start, needs a bit of modifications but its a good start, and the price was right on materials......

That's about the only kind of shots going in my body ----- I like the way you pour shots , filled to maximum capacity

Blue, white, and green are usually the headlight wires. Green is ground, Blue is high beam, white is low beam.

I use sta-flo liquid starch. Put it in just like slime. Can get it at walmart dirt cheap. And there is zero mess when removing a tire like slime.

Yea i'm the same. Free wood is free wood to me. I clean my chimney every year anyway.

Was mid upper 70's here over the weekend. This morning I see oaks have started sprouting again.

Staying cold here.

Goober looks just like the one I got when I bought my 98 450ES, easy hookup for sure...

I put a used plow on the new 86 instead because i want to run that rig some more. actually found a NOS Cycle Country mount kit (15-1540 The bumper is mounted higher that the accessory bumper on my other quad. more slack—makes adjustments easier. But the push tube still held by the big old punkin on these Chili Peppers this manual plow kit (cycle country made two in ‘90s) is for later model quads that were higher and wider. So on this later model the lift handle interferes with the quad handlebar grip. Drive over Pin in the push tube (used old axe handle to lift the tube ends) Set the float, then the lift lock

dukes of hazzard fan ...

Congrats! Good work!! Keep the RPMs down during the first two hours of runtime, constantly varying the RPMs (light acceleration under load, followed by deceleration cycles) and don't allow the motor to idle more than a few seconds at a time, except while warming the piston up after cold startups. Put a minimum of two hours (you didn't put a new camshaft in it, so no need to change oil after one hour) on the motor before you change the oil & filter the 1st time. When you change the oil make sure that the motor is fully warmed up and yank the oil plug & filter as soon as you shut the warm motor off. After changing the oil & filter allow the motor to cool off completely and readjust the valves. Take it easy on the motor during the 1st 10 hours of it's new life then ride it however you wish. Change the oil again between 15-20 hours and have fun with it!

I just cut them as is for the most part, climb on the pile, start at the top and work my way down. I'm totally shocked that the truck driver came down the driveway, bought it all off a guy, $2,000 for 15 chord delivered, semi had about an hr drive from where it was cut. Got another 4 chord or so on the other side of the yard to cut up also, so I have about 20 chord here.....

You call that a being a Honda Hoarder !! I know , I am one of them , you don't know how many times my arm and hand have returned from the throwing position in route to the garbage can , it's like glued to my fingers

In 2012 we were riding along a beach in Cook Inlet. Were scads of eagles hanging out on the bluff. My son was 7 and I was starting to worry a group of them would swoop down and carry him away. Last pic is a group we ran up on eating a pile of fish guts. Poor photos, camera phone back then wasn't very good.

Your welcome! Glad to help!

I've gotten more of my share of Hondas with hacked wiring harnesses. Usually I just buy a used harness on ebay and swap them out. If it was under water for weeks, that would probably be a good idea. New harnesses aren't cheap, but used ones usually aren't too bad.

Left town last Friday to get out of Montana's mountains and head out tti the Oregon coast. Pretty nice to be relaxing for a few days. Temps aren't great but is wonderful to be away.😁

Do these have the notorious unreliable Ford vehicle speed sensor? My 99 Taurus went through a few of them. Screwed up shifts and erratic speedo readings were the clue.

That’s his riding pupper

freebo, congrats on getting this old girl fixed up. Be sure to follow the break in suggestions posted here, I did and am glad to make sure the new parts are broken in correctly for the longevity of the engine. You have been fortunate as I was to have all the help here to get it done right, no words can be enough to thank those involved. Make sure to hang around here, you may be able, with the experience you have learned, to help another here......

Fishfiles breakin recommendations are as effective as any! Just don't beat on it right away (the piston rings overheat if ya do) and it'll be fine.

I appreciate all of the input. I do know I'm taking a great risk putting money into this. I guess that's why everyone just kept rigging it. I just think it will be worth it with no concrete evidence to back that up lol. I'll do the minimum first, but correctly and go from there.

I'm not sure what the cut 3 wire in the front is yet. I know the fuel pump is bypassed somehow so that if the key is on, it is on. The saddest part is that the guy who did this graduated top of his class as an electrician. Let that soak in🤣 There could absolutely be rodent damage as well. I will post pics for you guys when I get it torn apart. The dunk was a bad one. My brother purchased this atv new. A couple of weeks later he was trying to impress some girl and let her drive it. We had lots of trails around here at the time around strip mines. I can't remember if a bug flew into her or a weed but she just decided to stop steering....they went down a 100' cliff and the atv went into the mine filled with water. It was there for weeks before we got it out. Neither of them were hurt thankfully. But I don't think he talked to her again:)

i just wonder if ford made that model in a 4wd edition, i think this model was what some called the 5 door ? (just one door one the left hand side) where i suppose the gas tank was located ? must have a been a run between gm, and ford ? 72 chevy suburban, those old classics i sure do like, that's when vehicles were gas hog power houses. simple to work on, none of that computer mess, ha! how times have changed. lol.

Went to see the nearest Bald Eagles this morning. One on the nest, the other about 100 yds away perched in a tree. Pics taken with the phone at 4x looking through a spotter scope set at 20x. Figure we were 200yds away on the opposite side of the river. The nest can't be more than 75yds away from the 4 lane US36.

THe rollers in number 27 are more like a 1/16" in dia. Feels like a game show....'name that debris'!

I hear you, and my knees usually gave me fits for a couple days after riding hard. To many years of commercial and industrial roofing under my belt.

Yeah you use water as lube to press a new seal onto the drum, then pack the lips full of grease when the drum is installed. Every Honda manual reads the same.