Excellent Video. I am about to rebuild that very same carb. The O ring with super glue trick is very cool. I will Try it. Subscribed. #82 Peace. I have been on YT since 2009 and your voice over on these videos work well. I watched your whole series the other night and watching key point again. Cheers!
Glad you enjoyed! And hopefully learned a thing or two. I came up with the super glue trick after countless hours of frustration. Lol. Stay on two wheels!!
I just finished my '76 XL250. It was a lot worse than this one but the carb was surprisingly clean as well. I did find the shaped fuel bowl gasket for mine.
Great video, just got a 72 xl250, it was a barn find that hasn’t ran in 40 years. I put a new spark plug in and it ran after I pulled it with the quad for a few mins. Runs rough but I planned on re building the carb regardless. What kind of oil should I use? The bike has 3000 miles on it.
Thanks. 10w-40 is what I used. When the carbs clean that bike will start up first kick! Might want to clean/replace the points and condenser as well it’s a cheap and easy repair.
The o-ring that came with the rebuild kit for the idle air/fuel mixture idle screw seems too big for the hole and I can't seem get it in. This is the o-ring that sits behind the little washer and the spring for the idle screw. It didn't seem like you ran into that same problem here. Any words of advice for me brother for it didnt' seem like you ran into this with your rebuild kit from video.
Actually rewatching it... it looks like you didnt' even add the o-ring at all. You just threw the spring on top of screw and screwed it in. Did you have any problems later?
@@jesseleonard4737 Hello and thanks for asking. I honestly can’t remember if I used that o-ring or not. But I would recommend going to harbor freight and buying an o-ring kit. The one with all black o-rings that comes with 10 different sizes. One of those in that kit would work good in there and it’s pretty nice kit to have laying around for other projects.
Brannu Studios hello that sounds like a pretty good deal as long nothing is missing or broken. I would compression test if possible to make sure it’s over 100psi. And test the clutch out they are not very cheap for these bikes.
I scored a 1978 xl 350 for $900 . It was in good condition runs fine and I could t be happier. Now have my eyes on a 1973 xl 250 in rough shape for $600 but it’s mainly cosmetic so I myself would hit em at $825 and meet somewhere in between. I love these vintage Honda’s
@@dongantt7824 I ended up buying it (1980), I restored it (cosmetically), rode it for a few months then sold it. It was a really nice bike just not fast enough for me.
@@BrannuStudios that’s cool great to hear and now we have you to thank for preserving yet another one of these great 4 stroke Honda’s that took us into a new frontier leavings two strokes far behind on the on/off road scene we see today. I’m going to go ahead and do my 79 XL 350 factory and convert it to the 1975 XR 75 factory finish in red equipped with the nice fat straight exhaust pipe into the factory megaphone and test the waters on a street build that was strictly MX in 75 and do the same thing with the 73 xl 250 but use that year’s CR 250 and see what 4stroke schemes I could come up with. These clones can really do a number on theses older vintage guys who live for theses things. Take care my friend..
Excellent Video. I am about to rebuild that very same carb. The O ring with super glue trick is very cool. I will Try it. Subscribed. #82 Peace. I have been on YT since 2009 and your voice over on these videos work well. I watched your whole series the other night and watching key point again. Cheers!
Glad you enjoyed! And hopefully learned a thing or two. I came up with the super glue trick after countless hours of frustration. Lol.
Stay on two wheels!!
I just finished my '76 XL250. It was a lot worse than this one but the carb was surprisingly clean as well. I did find the shaped fuel bowl gasket for mine.
THANK YOU FOR YOUR INFORMATIVE VIDEO, MOSTLY THE CARB.
You are welcome. Feels good to help!
Great video, just got a 72 xl250, it was a barn find that hasn’t ran in 40 years. I put a new spark plug in and it ran after I pulled it with the quad for a few mins. Runs rough but I planned on re building the carb regardless. What kind of oil should I use? The bike has 3000 miles on it.
Thanks. 10w-40 is what I used. When the carbs clean that bike will start up first kick! Might want to clean/replace the points and condenser as well it’s a cheap and easy repair.
Thank you, I will do that. Keep making good videos.
you can buy the bowl gaskets on line but thinner knock offs
Hey bud can you remember where you got your parts from?
Getting hard to find down here in Australia 🇦🇺
Cheers
What ever you can’t find on eBay. You should be able to find at Hondapartshouse.com or bikebandit.com
@@Noeladventures thanks for the quick response to 👍
The o-ring that came with the rebuild kit for the idle air/fuel mixture idle screw seems too big for the hole and I can't seem get it in. This is the o-ring that sits behind the little washer and the spring for the idle screw. It didn't seem like you ran into that same problem here. Any words of advice for me brother for it didnt' seem like you ran into this with your rebuild kit from video.
Actually rewatching it... it looks like you didnt' even add the o-ring at all. You just threw the spring on top of screw and screwed it in. Did you have any problems later?
@@jesseleonard4737
Hello and thanks for asking.
I honestly can’t remember if I used that o-ring or not. But I would recommend going to harbor freight and buying an o-ring kit. The one with all black o-rings that comes with 10 different sizes. One of those in that kit would work good in there and it’s pretty nice kit to have laying around for other projects.
The bike did run really good for me whether it was in there or not though, But always better safe than sorry.
Thank you!@@Noeladventures
Hey. I have the chance to buy one of these in supposedly great mechanical shape for $900. Do you think it's worth it??
Brannu Studios hello that sounds like a pretty good deal as long nothing is missing or broken. I would compression test if possible to make sure it’s over 100psi. And test the clutch out they are not very cheap for these bikes.
I scored a 1978 xl 350 for $900 . It was in good condition runs fine and I could t be happier. Now have my eyes on a 1973 xl 250 in rough shape for $600 but it’s mainly cosmetic so I myself would hit em at $825 and meet somewhere in between. I love these vintage Honda’s
@@dongantt7824 I ended up buying it (1980), I restored it (cosmetically), rode it for a few months then sold it. It was a really nice bike just not fast enough for me.
@@BrannuStudios that’s cool great to hear and now we have you to thank for preserving yet another one of these great 4 stroke Honda’s that took us into a new frontier leavings two strokes far behind on the on/off road scene we see today. I’m going to go ahead and do my 79 XL 350 factory and convert it to the 1975 XR 75 factory finish in red equipped with the nice fat straight exhaust pipe into the factory megaphone and test the waters on a street build that was strictly MX in 75 and do the same thing with the 73 xl 250 but use that year’s CR 250 and see what 4stroke schemes I could come up with. These clones can really do a number on theses older vintage guys who live for theses things. Take care my friend..
@@dongantt7824 That sounds great, it was definitely a pleasure restoring the one I have. Good luck and definitely post some videos!