Got myself another toy (a quad)

[kamilb1998]

It's a BMS 150ST-A 150cc quad. Dad bought it for me secondhand but with a new battery & almost new tyres. All I've done to it so far is an oil change & air fliter clean.

What do you lot think of it?

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[Don1]

Superb! Can I be horribly rude and ask for a price paid?

[kamilb1998]

Don1 said:

Superb! Can I be horribly rude and ask for a price paid?

Sorry but dad got it for me, and won't tell me how much he paid for it.

[Don1]

Understandable. Enjoy...

[kamilb1998]

NeMiSiS said:

Are you the coolest kid in the close?

A Jag & a quad, yeah! If oly, there were other kids in the close.

[kamilb1998]

As the bike had been riden for only a couple of hours by the Previous Owner and then parked up in a damp garage, was that the exhaust had gone all rusty and it was letting the side down a bit. So today I got the exhaust off, wire brushed it and then painted it with some High Temperature Silver Exhaust paint. I have to say I'm chuffed with the way it's turned out...

[kamilb1998]

I'll go straight into what happened today I think.

Driving around a mud track everything fine, nothing smells bad, throttle response OK. After 10 mins of driving it starts to splutter, so I gave it more throttle. It then ground to a halt and threw a load of oil over my foot - turned out the sump plug had come out.

At first it wouldn't turn over (electric or kick start) but I waited a while for it to cool down, and it eventually fired up and ran. But was very tappetty and wouldn't idle. I tried to start it again after a little while to see if the tappetty noise had gone and when it fired up I forgot I left my thumb on the starter switch so the starter burnt out as well.

So about £50 worth of parts will be needed - piston, rings, block & a new starter motor. I've started taking it apart and I'm at the stage now that all it needs for the engine to be out, is the chain disconnecting.

[kamilb1998]

Took me a while but I've ordered all the bits for it today. Should be with me in around 2 weeks

[normalbloke]

kamilb1998 said:

Took me a while but I've ordered all the bits for it today. Should be with me in around 2 weeks

Where was this made?

[kamilb1998]

normalbloke said:

kamilb1998 said:

Took me a while but I've ordered all the bits for it today. Should be with me in around 2 weeks

Where was this made?

The parts are coming in from Taiwan.

[kamilb1998]

I've stripped the engine down today, still waiting for the new bits to arrive hopefully early next week. As I was stripping the engine down however I've noticed that the rocker assembly has snapped (in pictures) so a new one of these will need to be ordered too.