I've had my 1993 TRX 300 upside-down and ran through mutiple rivers handle bars deep. The thing just won't die, bulletproof and still fires right up to this day.
@Dan The car guy damn right nothing can stop them they laugh at hard work there stillloads in service on farms I went to a race even and most the teams were using trx 300s to move tyres and parts round the pits
I love these old Honda's, quite simply they are the best I have a '98 Foreman 400fw that has worked all its life & never left me stranded. I wouldn't give it up for anything ☺️
The trx 300 is the greatest fantastic reliably they can pull twice there own weight you can smash over ditches and muddy terrain and they shrug it off like it’s nothing
I picked up my 2nd one today. A real nice 1994 for $1,200.. I couldn't pass it up... I'm not crazy about the green I'll probably paint it... no major issues just needs a little piddling and do the brakes...
That is a good deal. Cant find any around here that are in good shape for that price. The other good thing is there not to bad to work on. Really a simple machine but the best atv ever built. Thanks for watching and commenting
Man you don’t have to prove anything to anybody. That thing is awesome and you did such a good job making it what you need it to be, a nice hunting rig. I’m with your brother, HONDA makes the best motors for any application,. End of discussion!!!!
Thank you it has served me well for many years. I cant even begin to count how many deer this machine has hauled out for me over the years. Honda is dependable, reliable and the best on the market. Thanks again and thanks for watching.
Thank you, Didn't see the since in buying a web catcher when i had some CB antennas laying around. lol. Thank you for watching and the support of my channel
@@dave434 mine had a problem with the rear brakes sticking at one time. I changed the fluid in the front reservoir and that helped with the front but what the main problem was my hand cable for the rear brakes was rusted on the inside and wouldn't release right. Ordered me a new motion pro rear cable and after some adjusting. it works great to this day.
I still have my green 93 fourtrax that I bought new. Still has the original tires on it. Been sitting for about 12 years inside an enclosed building. Time to get it running again.
Man those big reds are beast too. I had a 250 sx and das had big reds when I was growing up. Some of my best memories was with them. Honda makes a great machine. The 300 is the iron duke of the Honda line! Thanks for sharing
@@pineylife I paid $500 for a 84 200es..10 years ago.to bring to my cabin.. it a workhorse...only had to replace the battary... Started up both machines today.👍👍
Nice old 300! More than likely, only reason you probably had to put front axles in it is because of the lift. Lifts put CV joints in a bad angle that make them wear out prematurely.
You are exactly right. It wasn’t long after I put the lift on the axles started wearing out. Those lift kits are easy to install and great fir bigger tires but rough on front end components.
I had a 92 300, best machine ever made. Power jet, dial-a-jet, Heavy duty valve springs and keepers, SuperTrap exhaust, gas shocks, wrapped the CV joint boots with automotive split boots, slick-50 (the real stuff) , my winch was not mounted so it can be used anywhere on the bike, bigger tires, and so on, good old machine, the guy I sold her to still uses it today
Was always a Yamaha man but tried the pioneer 500 and love it for what I need to go ice fishing and hunting. My buddy ended up getting one also. He had an atv and one season hunting I followed him through the bush and he was amazed that I could go where he was going. Our other buddy couldn’t because he has a ranger 570 mid size. Just this fall my buddy bought the tracks for his pioneer 500. We went to the camp in the winter and we were going through 2 1/2 to almost three feet of snow it was amazing what we could get through. Slow it down a lot with the tracks but it’s like a tank lol.
I bet that was cool running on tracks. We never get enough snow here to amount to anything. Heck if it snows here we call in just so we can go hunt in it. lol
@@pineylife ya it was. I jumped out of the machine to hook a tow rope up to our buddy’s snowmobile because he went of the trail in to the cabin and the snow was about 6 inches past my knees. (I’m 5’7”) he’s got me wanting a set now lol we got going and the snow was pushed up over the hood of the p500 we’d get stopped back up and then plow right on through lol
The exhaust Is a factory pipe coming from the head to muffler. Then it was hooked to a cobra exhaust but it was really loud so I got a 12 inch long by 6 inch round car muffler and a couple of 90 bends and welded one side to the cobra exhaust outlet and welded the other end to the inlet of the muffler and welded the other 90 bend to the outlet of the muffler. It quietened it way down. I got the idea from the older utv stealth mufflers. Oh yeah and for a bracket I got a piece of steel rod and welded to the outlet of the muffler. Then I tach welded a u clamp to the other end and attached it to the rack for support.
Hey bud, I got that 300 running… I changed regulator rectifier, coil, solenoid, and both Cdi boxes… took me a minute to get parts but I got them… I shoulda changed 1 part at a time to figure the real problem out but just done them all accept the stator…
Heck yeah man. Glad to hear your back in business. Sounds like you should be good for a long time with all them new parts. Thanks for the update and thanks for watching my channel
This 300 you have really reminds me of the 1985 250es Big Red I used to have, man there tough and just keep running. I've been thinking about trying to find one of these 300 4x4's, but they seem to be kinda hard to find that is in any shape that haven't been mud bogged or swamped. You have a good runner, I'd keep that one for sure. Great video!
Growing up I had several Hondas. 110, 250 SX, also a 200X. My dad and uncle had the big reds up until the fourtrax came out and everybody ventured over to the four wheelers. I miss the older atc's. Im thinking about trying to find one to do a rebuild on.... Your right on the 300s its getting really hard to find one thats not been abused. Thanks for watching
Sounds like the choke is not disengaging in the carb. Another thing to check would be the gas lid. They will not run after warming up if the gas lid switch is not in the on position or the gas lid is going bad.
You are exactly right and this has done been covered in the comments below. I can not edit the video without removing the video entirely and then download it again.
Was riding home yesterday and my 300 bogged down a little and i seen sparks fly out the driverside fender well.....any info would be apreciated..1999 300 4x4...????
That could be a number of things. The CDI box is up under the front end so that could have sparks if it’s shorting out. Also check your coil and coil wire on the front of the engine to make sure a stick or something hadn’t damage the spark plug wire or coil wires. Probably wouldn’t hurt to jack the front end up and spin the wheels to see if you have a wheel bearing going out. That’s just a few ideas. I would start by looking at all the wires and relays to make sure nothings exposed. If you don’t see anything look over the front end real good. Let me know what you find please
@@pineylife found a blown headlight bulb.....1 of the long clear fuses was blown inna battery box...replaced the fuse now the neutral light works when u turn key on but the oil indicator light stopped working...will the oil sensor itself cause no spark, it acted like I ran outta gas....p.s reverse light works also...engine cranks good...I hadda new battery in it too but it was one of the really small batteries from Wal-Mart not the 200cca it calls for anyway the battery boiled over and blew the caps off, Idk what the hell would cause that, it bogged down cause no battery acid im guessing and ran another mile or so then quit and havent has spark since....??? Any ideas appreciated bud....???
@@berniceperry8898 Wow, Man that sounds like a mess. Well there is two boxes under the front fenders mounted up next to the handlebar location.. There is a large one and a small one. if you can get to the large one. grab it and squeeze it real hard. Then try to start it. If its got spark the CDI box is going out. The little box beside it is your oil alarm that goes to your light. There's a good possibility its the CDI. I have replaced mine twice. So Check those. The stator in your motor is what charges your battery. It sends voltage to your regulator which send the voltage to your battery. It could be your regulator went bad and over charged your battery. The regulator is mounted to the frame usually under the rear fender it will have ribs on it like a amp does. Try squezzing the cdi to see if you have power and then kick start or roll it over by the switch to see if you have power. if not put a battery on it and check the voltage at the coil plug in to see if you have 12 volts.
@@pineylife I took the regulator off and was looking at it and on the back of it there was a crack across it...ive done everything accept check for 12v at my coil....ill do it next and thank you for telling me what to do....
"4 wheeler that's almost 50 years old" check that math again. It's an 88 model. You also said you rode it for 30 years. Said you bought it in 1998. So unless you were riding it when your boss had it that math don't work out either?
My bad. On the math. It is a 1988 model. I bought it in 1998 both of the ones I bought had set for years. I did not ride them when he owned them but I have rode it since 1998. So that would be 23 years. Ok so that makes it 33 years old correct? I will see if I can make the corrections by text on the video. This was a quick video that I started shooting and should have done the math on it first before filming.
@@pineylife I know how old these things are and I know you do too. We all exaggerate a bit. But there is someone watching this that has no clue that might not even look at them if he didn't catch the year model cause he thinks there 50 years old. 😂 Well I guess that's good, less people that want these excellent machines. I have 2, an 89 model and a 98 model. Both 2wd
@@natevanlandingham1945 I'm actually glad you caught it. I had no idea that I had made those mistakes. been trying to fix it in the youtube editor but not having much luck. We can always learn from our mistakes. lol. Anyways thanks for watching and good to hear how many of theses machines are still in working order.
Not really the only times I have had a issue on that was a heal toe shifter hung up from being bent. Another time I seen a issue where the shifter was stripped out.
I got mine off of a Honda atc 250 1985 model. I had to do some fabricating to get it to fit. Another great option Is a led pod style light mounted to the handlebars. That way the light shines where you turn the handlebars.
I took it off of a Honda big red three wheeler. Everything was there that I needed except i had to add two u clamps to the frame of the light to hold it on the handlebars.
Bullshit!!!!!!!!!!!!! Best ever bike built is the 80ish --2004 Kawasaki 300 Bayou 4x4. I got my first 4x4 atv. in 1989. I still have that bike--looks mint-- I bet while that idled and stuff doing chores and now spraying all our acreage weeds it has thousands and thousands of hours. Only replaced rear tail light bulb, spark plug and changed oil with Royal Purple ATV oil in spring and fall. I have (4) of them. An '89 a '94 a '98 and my newest a '04. One is very built up. Lift kit, "16 inch Mud Grappler tires, built motor, re-jetted carb, perf. exhaust, snorkel, and more. Have sprayer and a snow blade with cab on other and last one is wife's run -around bike. BEST ATV. EVER BUILT PERIOD !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
No sense in cussing and caring on. Struck a nerve there huh. Every body has there opinions on what brands is the best. Sounds like you have had some reliable machines. Couldn't agree more on the Royal purple oil. I run that in my chopper. Congrats on all your machines lasting and being reliable. That being said. We can agree to disagree on our brands.
@@pineylife I am disappointed and offended at the calling of my widely used term " bullshit" as in bull-shiter, maker of a joke, kidder, faker etc. that you say I swore. I don't think I was out of line in any way shape or form. I BULLSHIT people all the time when I go into fits about Chevy vehicles because I've restored over 400 '67-'72 Chevy 4x4 trucks since 1980. I sometimes get just outright pissed when people OVER-OPINIONATED tend to steel the floor!!!!!! You gotta lighten up buddy!!! Thats what's wrong with society nowadays NOBODY CAN TAKE A DANG JOKE OR COMMENT--you look at someone wrong and you get shot!!!!!!!!!!!! Jim
@@jameskiesau7543 well Jim. With all the exclamation marks in your comments. There didn’t seem like there was anything joking, faker, kidder, etc. lol! But anyway we might not be able to agree on atvs but it sounds like we agree on the brand of trucks. I have had several 67s and one 68. All of which I went from straight 6s to V8s. I drove a 67 step side all through high school. Your right about society. It’s a cancel culture, that’s why I didn’t delete your comment everybody is entitled to there opinion . Thanks for watching and commenting back. Jamie
@@pineylife I don't mean to keep throwing stones at your Fourtrax 300 but I just remembered last night one thing a did like a bit better for my use was the shock on every corner concept. It just seemed at the time(way back in late 80's when I was looking at my first 4x4 atv.) I actually almost bought a Fourtrax ! They are very similar almost identical specs and designs. I wouldn't have a belt drive trasmission --including a Kawi' stuck up my you know where. They belong in snow machines. P.S I am a Harley man too-just small time in 90's. A Hugger, just a dang fun little bike, souped it a bit, Scream'in Eagle, K&N, drag pipes, two -up seat-- that's it. Lota fun. We were more into '68-'73 steel bumper Vettes. Had few of them. No hard feelings buddy -didn't mean to come off a bit dicky to ya.
@@jameskiesau7543 no offense taken. The signal shock does make for a very stiff ride on fourtrax. They are actually real stiff all the time. Lol. But the stiffness helps out when you got a load such as a deer or what not… We built choppers for years under the name hard road customs most of our show choppers was Yamaha road stars but we did build several harleys and a couple ss engine bikes. That all come to a halt in 2008. Heck I don’t even own a bike now. Lol. I like vettes but I have always been a chevy II guy. Favorites are 66 and 67. As far as trucks any Chevy will do. But I really like 67 thru 72. We might have got off on the wrong foot a little but o think we have a lot of hobbies in common. Take care
The fronts are 24x8x11 the rears are 25x9x11 ITP Mud lites 2. The are one inch over stock size tires and my 300 has a two inch lift. Let me know if you need anything else. Thanks for watching
@@pineylife thank you so much I’m having trouble finding the 25x9x11 tires for the rear where did you order from sir I have a 300 and looking for the same set up
@@pineylife compared to The ATVS nowadays, they are almost like riding a Goat. Watched a video yesterday of a man, and his wife riding two 300’s around over some rocks, those two were just a bouncing around 🤣
The 1985-88 Fourtrax 250 have the single handle bar headlight that can be removed with a cord attached, too. When you have a large load on the front rack, that's the only disadvantage to them. I have a 1985 Fourtrax 250 and a 1996 Fourtrax 300 4x4. Rock solid machines! I don't see myself replacing them ever. I bought the 1985 used in 2001. I had the starter rebuild once in 20 years. Even then, I just kick started it for a year or two before I had it rebuilt. Outside of the oil, filters, & spark plugs - that's the only service it has needed. It's been used quite a bit, and it did all my snow plowing for me until I upgraded to the 1996 4WD 300 last year. I couldn't justify buying a new Rancher or one of the other Honda models when I could get a really nice used 300 for about 1/3 the cost.
We think alike. Sound like you are a die hard Honda enthusiast too. Them 250s are work horses too right along with the atcs. thanks for sharing and thanks for watching
