Hi Matman, How's it going with your Honda Recon, did you still need help with it? At risk of sounding obvious, you can download the service manual right here, that'll tell you if it has an oil filter and anything else you'd need to know: Fortunately you have more than 10 posts so download away...:o) Let me know if I can further assist - Cheers Matman!~ Bellarmine

Hi Jakes, Thought I'd comment on my experience with a Shindy kit. I have a 1986 Kawasaki Bayou 300 owned since new. Good machine, weak points in my opinion are the carburetor and starter. Keihin CVK-32 vaccuum slide carb very picky about dirt. Ever so often it won't start, I drain the float bowl helps it fire up (water?), then if it persists it's carb clean time. Probably done it a dozen times now, do it in my sleep. Anyway, I decided at one point about 2014 to put in a new carb kit, since it still had all the original seals and jets from near 30 years before. Like you I bought a Shindy kit, feeling they were good quality and Japanese for a Japanese ATV. Well, from the get go I had a high unstable idle - either racing or died. I'm not sure, the tiny washer on the pilot screw might have been bent. Anyway, I put back in the original pilot screw and problem gone. Further update, for a number of reasons I won't go into here, the machine sat from 2017 until 2020, wasn't started at all. Needless to say I cleaned the carb, upon disassembly I found the Shindy float bowl o-ring had turned to gooey TAR. So, in absence of anything else I put back and am currently using the original OEM float bowl o-ring, jets and parts from 1986, and it is running great. Just needs a bit of ether if it goes much below freezing, getting old. Starts instantly and idles smooth otherwise, see a video on how it starts and my starter motor replace tip below: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1rUehPXoaY So draw your own conclusion. Hope you find that interesting if nothing else. I'm currently helping another fellow with a 1993 Suzuki QuadRunner 300, he bought a Chinese carb for it as the original carb was 'lost' (??), so I have no baseline to compare with. With my experience with my Kawasaki, and like you cleaning all 3 of yours, I'm sure I could have gotten it running perfect by simply cleaning the old carb, but what is to be will be...:o) Am getting close to it running decent. Try putting back in your original OEM parts in one of your OEM carbs and try that - what have you got to lose?....:o) Cheers Jakes!~ Bellarmine

I run 5 psi in the tires on my old '91 Honda Fourtrax 300FW. The tires are rated for 7psi max. It is also a solid axle rear , full time 4x4 and as such has the turning circle of a pickup truck and a harsher ride than the newer independent suspension rigs with selectable 2- 4WD. Simple , dead reliable old technology but much easier to maintain like most of the old Hondas and Suzukis. 5 psi is fine in your quad, and you could easily run them at the recommended 4.4 psi. The low pressure gives a little less harsh ride and better grip in rough terrain. Hard core 4x4 offroaders drop their vehicle tires from highway 30 -50 psi pressures down to as low as 10 - 15psi. Some with bead lock rims drop pressures into the single digits for rock crawling. Softer tires give better grip and ride , harder tires give better fuel mileage and handling on the highway.

Those are nice quads with the shifters (I think this has them) and low center of gravity, but not the most comfortable. Topic moved to Suzuki ATV Forum. 😁