1986 WR400 restoration

Apologies I didnt make it clear, Andy at HVA factory has had some carb/Inlet flange rubbers re-manufactured to the original HVA design at around a £100 ea. The two bolt universal is available in the UK from Allens and Sudco and IRC the website that has all the dating info (sorry cant remember which site, hopefully someone who knows will give the right website) in the US.

Not necessarily a Husky dealer as it is a standard Mikuni spigot to reed case adapter. You would need to get the billet piece to get the bolt spread and buy the adapter to fit that and your carb

I am sure the billet plate takes the universal adapter and it is in the right size range

Ya

Seems to easy for something I'm working on. I will order the billet piece first.
Thanks guys
Ps guess who picked up those free parts?

N

No problem, I'm a little slow sometimes...

Ok,
the new billet intake ordered. Motor back together. Getting better.
I have a new issue, a small crack in the rim near the edge. Is this something I can have welded? Any luck with this type of repair?
Bud

I am guessing you of course.

The "crack" you see is likely a separation of the unwelded portion of the rim seal. If the crack is perfectly straight above a shallow dent in the rim, then structurally no need to repair

Not big, but not sure what to do.

If you need something, let me know. I would like to pickup a 250 motor for my other 86 400 rolling frame.

I was trying to get a set of forks for the 83 430WR I am trying to put together. There is a guy somewhat local to me that may have a L/C 250 engine, I do know he has parts for an 87 430WR. I will be listing his stuff in my eBay store soon when I get the chance to pick the stuff up. I have an "extra" 250WR lower end that can be converted to L/C very easily seeing I am putting an L/C crankshaft into it

I'm correct that the 250 lower is the same as the400 right?
Oh, and what is l/c?

Liquid cooled

Yes the 250 lower end bolts right in as the cases are the same outside profiles from 82 through 87. I am using a set of centercases from an 84 250CR to replace centercases in an 82 430WR engine I am building. I will contact my friend and see if he has or know where he can get an L/C 250 topend. I know he parted out an 86 250XC so he might still have the topend. Water Cooled is not appropriate as in these engines as you should only use premix coolant mixed with deionized water, not tap water

Now that you have posted a pic of the rim, I see the seam did not separate. You can have that welded and should or replace it. You would have to paint the rim if you were concerned about appearance. The seam is actually unaffected

I had a crack, damaged rims on my 450 rims.. I went to woodys wheel works in colorado, the wheels could be repaired but the time, labor, $$ etc.. was weighed against the cost of new rims. I am keeping and riding the bike so I went with 'new' Akront - Morad rims I ordered from UK. The rims are blanks & needed to be sent to Buchanans in California to get drilled for the offset etc .. just food for thought, lots of 'issues'..I can post the links if needed

M

My old 430 had a crack similar to that, all I did was drill a small hole at the end of the crack to limit its chances of spreading & watched it for 2 years with the end result being 2mm growth in that time after lots of hard rocky riding.
Just make sure the spokes are tight.

Hi,
That's an issue also. Some spokes are hand tight. I was going to drop off at my local shop to have them done right, this not something I can do my self correct?

You can do that with a hand drill and a small diameter drill bit

Ive found with wheels that you can tighten everything up in the spokes department just enough so it doesn't rub on anything then ride real fast down a long road and they can straighten them selves out and you just tighten the loose ones up. ive done it on a couple of bikes that have had major spoke loosening and out of shape rims and it works..