Hey folks I just bought my second suzuki (first one was wrecked). Its a 1988 LT250 quad runner. Needs some work so I will be back here often for help and advice along the way! Thanks in advance from Arkansas.

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Follow up on carb cleaning. Took it back apart this morning and repeated everything I did yesterday plus ran copper wire into every orifice I could find and put it back together and re-installed. Started right up and runs great. Don't know what I missed yesterday but must have found it today. Rode around the fields and woods for about an hour with no problems. Next step is to get the front brakes working which I hope to get to tomorrow. Two of the four tires are leaking air through cracks and around rims so considering whether to put tubes in them or bite the bullet and replace the tires. Tons of tread left on the old ones but sitting in the dirt for so long has taken a toll on the rubber.

Hello from Missouri, 72 year old outlaw here doing his best to stay in the game. Owned several bikes in my life, but just acquired my first quad. It's a Yamaha Bear Tracker, still working out what year it is but think it's a 2002 give or take a year. It had sat for several yrs before I got it so has a few problems. Both front brakes were locked up. I released them by loosening the connection at the master cylinder just so I could push it the ramps onto my pickup. Will look into that later but right now my first priority is to get it running. I was able to start it when I got it home by giving it a shot of starting fluid in the carb throat but wouldn't stay running. Took the carb off and gave it what I felt was a thorough cleaning and it did help. It starts and can even be rode but bogs down under a load and have to go very easy on the throttle to get it going. Big improvement over yesterday but looks like I'll need to give the cleaning another go round, apparently missed something somewhere. Anyways, came here looking for information so glad to be here and and any advice will be much appeciated.