badmarx

Sorry about the last post! I'm trying to pretend to work and text il sort it later on this evening and explainig it a little clearer.

I'm a bit suprised by design of a few things on the bike. It's not a 70's or 80's bike. Polymer use and choice I'd much more developed since. Iv a backround in industrial design, and the plastics used for something like a petrol tank is amazing to me. I know space is a controling factor in these bikes but it's no reason for lazy problem solving. I rotated the carb but then decided to remove the plastic lever all together and attach a cable to the choke pin. Then ran the cable to the handle bar and put a small lever on the end. Put the tank in the dish washer on a cool wash last night and blew it out after with the compresser. gonna heat dry it now on a low slow bake to see does it pull back to shape but it's nearly ten mm out from lining up ! Don't see it pulling back thatuch Simples.com

Also noticing that the closer I get the tank to where it should be, the more it impinges the little black choke Lever from reaching full upright position. I know these are pure newby questions sorry.

Yeah thanks lads. I decided to be a bit more insistant with the tank and it sat in a lot better. did what ye said by washing out the tank and started from the top. But still not in situ fully yet. I'm thinking this old girl might just need a new tank as iv found a fairly bad leak around the tap. I'd be grateful of any suggestions for this too. Dono if they can be fixed. the leak is where the main body of the tank meets da part that the tap mounts to. It looks like there should be a rubber gasket between plastic and tap too but that's just a guess. If so that's not there anymore. Cool little bike though can't get over how nice the general design and quality of it is.

Thanks Copemech, thats exactly what my motor looks like and its as close. air gun ! ah feck, I was even holding one in my hand while looking at the tank . . . great idea and worth a shot. thanks Steve. Bulto58 thanks very much for going to the trouble of looking at your own bike to compare.

hey lads, I just sold my wr250f and got a sherco 290 2002 model for free. i broke the bike down and rebuilt it the last two days. one of the problems i came across is the tank doesnt sit flat as it should even when emptied and the only thing that looks like its stopping it is the big brass looking fan motor. the motor is just shy of touching the spark plug cap. just wondering if anyone has a pic of a o.g. fan motor in situ to see the difference or if anyone bought an after market fan motor and found it caused this problem? il try posting a picture soon.