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12/18/2019 7:32am
12/18/2019 7:32am
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12/18/2019 11:12am
So I am getting back into motocross after a 10 year hiatus. I had heard great thinks about the steel framed YZ's and found this 2003 YZ250 about an hour and a half from my house. It was pretty beat up and in worse shape than I thought based off the pictures in the ad. However, I was planning on rebuilding the bike anyway and it ran. Two stroke prices are through the roof these days so I decided to pick it up. $860 later it was in the back of my truck.
The guy I bought it from received it as a partial trade from some work he did for the previous owner. The cylinder was toast and the clutch was torn apart. He had the cylinder replated and pieced the clutch back together. Little did I know how bad of shape the bike was in until I tore it down.
The bike was missing all sorts of odds and ends. Much of the plastic was held on by zip ties. It was missing the front pipe mount, air filter cage and bolt, exhaust and gas tank grommets, and miscellaneous hardware.
Due to not having an airfilter cage the filter was sitting loose in the air box. Sand was in the carb as expected. Surprisingly the cylinder is still in decent shape. Luckily the PO didn’t put much time on it before he decided he wanted to buy a 1999 YZ400 because the YZ250 didn’t have enough power (his words not mine).
Here is the bike after I brought it home. Believe it or not, it started easy only needing a few kicks.
The guy I bought it from received it as a partial trade from some work he did for the previous owner. The cylinder was toast and the clutch was torn apart. He had the cylinder replated and pieced the clutch back together. Little did I know how bad of shape the bike was in until I tore it down.
The bike was missing all sorts of odds and ends. Much of the plastic was held on by zip ties. It was missing the front pipe mount, air filter cage and bolt, exhaust and gas tank grommets, and miscellaneous hardware.
Due to not having an airfilter cage the filter was sitting loose in the air box. Sand was in the carb as expected. Surprisingly the cylinder is still in decent shape. Luckily the PO didn’t put much time on it before he decided he wanted to buy a 1999 YZ400 because the YZ250 didn’t have enough power (his words not mine).
Here is the bike after I brought it home. Believe it or not, it started easy only needing a few kicks.
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