Im trying something new - my ZXR250

Hi guys, so the cbr was a bust. And decided to go a completely different direction and get a zxr250. Now it is an A model bike but I don't really mind. I picked it up for $650. So I was expecting something's to be wrong with it.

It fired up when I went to view it. But now I have it home it won't even spin the starter motor. It may be the battery. It is only an auto barn cheapo one. And the guy did warn me it won't kick over much (But it worker on the cbr).

When it was running he said it sound bad and had no idea why. I could tell straight away it was a hole in the exhaust.

But what I didn't expect was the amount of rust to come out if the exhaust when I got the can off.

So not sure I can save it. I'm welding the hole up tomorrow but I fear the steel will be to thin.

There will be more posts to come.

 

Cheers mate, I'm hoping it is a good score. I fixed the hole in the exhaust while I had some down time at work. Lucky the work shop here has a mig welder and sander. So was all short work. Now I just need to sand the rust off and give it a coat of heat proof paint.

 

Finished the exhaust just now.
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After:

 

Another update for today. Decided to tackle the not starting issue. So apart from a lot of breather lines not being connected and the and the fuel pump lines are all shot. Everything seemed fine.

So I moved on to the switch cluster. And sure enough once I got it apart it was full of mud wasps nest, the small brass plate on the starter button was covered in mud. Tested it with a screw driver and bam it kicked.

So now it's time to replace all the perished lines, get rid of all the wasps nests, service it and get a air filter.

 

Sanded it. But I had a welder beside me just incase I put a hole in it. I get a suspicion that there is a hole but is no where near as big as the one I repaired. Took me about 7 hours all up to get into all the tight spots.

 

So today I spent an endless amount of time hunting down so sort of foam for a filter. But to no head way until I got home and huntsman told me about the uni filter one. Now I have another problem to address.
When I was taking off the airbox I didn't notice anything out of the ordinary. But now it looks like one of the bolts has snapped off and in the thread and has broken a chunk of the carbi off. Leaving a hole in the carbi also. So my question is. Would some of the metal cement stuff work to close the hole? I'm thining of just drilling out the the bolt and tap the hole.

 

Wait doesn't kiffsta have a set with stock setting?

 

Update for today.

So I thought I would be sure and see if it's running on all 4 cylinders. So I let the bike warm up and sprayed water into the headers. Sure enough. The #2 header. Cold. I can't believe my luck with bikes these days. So looks like I will need to rebuild the engine now. Which I didn't want to do.

 

Your correct. Wast just have a shitfull morning at work came home to work on the bike and was hoping my day got better. So when I saw this all I could thing was "knowing my luck the engine needs a rebuild". Murphy's law sort of thing.

 

Yeah I sat down and had a jack and chilled out. Now it's time to get back in there and start with giving the bike a service. So new plugs at the least.

 

Yep it sure is. Me and him. We go way back.

The reason I started at the spark plugs is that. A: To see how fowled the plugs were. B:To see if there was actual spark to the cylinder. C: to see if the spark plugs where wet with fuel well their thread any ways. And sure enough the cylinder that is not firing is the one that's dry.

Also it's the same cylinder which the damaged carbi is attached too. So 2 reasons now to get a new carbi set up.