newbie working on an old honda fourtrax

[whatever55]

Howdy Folks.  New here, and new to ATVs.  Also, I'm an old school introvert (give me a job to do, don't make me talk kind of guy).  I picked up my first ATV, and old 91 trx300fw and it needed more work than I realized.  I'm trying to get the alignment (toe specs) figured out now after replacing wheel cylinders and suspension components.

Not going to beat around the bush, I'd like to download the service manual that's posted on here but I apparently need 10 posts before I can download stuff, and I think I'm annoying the admins trying to get there without bothering people with stupid questions that the manual will answer.  Sorry Admins. 

So, I'm happy to be here; this looks like a good forum with a lot of good resources and knowledgeable folks.  Hopefully I'll have something to contribute as I start learning more about this quad and quads in general.  In the meantime, I'd really appreciate it some kind folks would help me reach the post count threshold so I'll be allowed to download the manual.  I feel dumb wasting people's time with questions that I should be looking up myself in a manual.  I'm sure I'll have lots of dumb questions even with a manual, but I'll feel better asking them after I've tried to figure it out myself first.

Thanks everyone.

[Mech]

I think I saw another post by you and yeah, just about all the the four wheel drive bikes are meant to have a bit of toe out. The amount you mentioned sounded  a bit much, but I haven.t looked in that manual.

There are other places online that have free manuals, but this is a pretty friendly and well run site, that just happens to have manuals as well. And the great thing about forums is that sometimes you ask about some problem and people can tell you straight away what it's most likely to be if it's some common model specific problem..  The internet is great for more than just the data it has.

[whatever55]

Yeah, that seemed like a lot of toe out to me too.  I'll do a test ride this weekend and see how it feels and and maybe reduce it some.

[Mech]

Yeah What, that's what I do, ride them and then adjust them, then test ride again till they drive nicely.. The toe in or out is to counter the effects of camber and these bikes often have things bent or worn  so the camber isn't right, so that the toe needs a bit of tweaking.

[vwhobo]

Hey, if you're still looking, shoot me a message and I'll do my best to hook you up.

[whatever55]

Thanks vwhobo, I think I'm good now.  I did a 30 mile ride on some mountain roads and it ran straight and smooth.  Which was good because this was redneck central.  Half dozen different groups of guys blasting away with ARs, half dozen abandoned camper trailers, and 2 abandoned cars that were all shot up. 

[Gwbarm]

Those old Hondas are excellent bikes, definitely worth the effort getting it back on the road again. Glad you got it going.