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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.

Thank you! Exactly what I needed!

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.

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.

This old trx300 was pulling to the right when I bought it. Wheel cylinders were all seized up, a ball joint was REALLY bad, one of the A-arms had a significant bend, and a tie rod was partially stripped, so it had some play. replaced all of that. Also attempted an alignment, but I assumed a quad was like a car and needed a slight toe-in. Now pulls in the other direction. yesterday I read that that the honda 500s actually need a tow out of 1 3/16 +- about half an inch. Is that the same for these old 300s? I found this site and saw that there's a service manual posted that covers this thing, but it looks like I need 10 posts before I can down load it. I'm excited to get my hands on it because this quad still needs more work. After getting alignment straitened out (hopefully), I need to fix a hole in the muffler or replace it, and the spring return on rear brake arm is weak, but someone welded the wheel hubs to the axle, so I may be looking at a new axle too. Why would anyone weld those hubs on!? Also per the alignment/ pulling issue, all tires are in good shape and have correct air pressure, so that's not the problem. Other things I've done are replace the fuel petcock and added an inline fuel filter, checked all the diff fluids, and made it street legal with horn, mirrors and a brake light. Mine's a 91 and I took a chance and ordered a brake like sensor bracket from ebay from a 91, but it didn't fit so I just fabricated a bracket from some scrap c-channel.

rebuilding an old trx300fw and trying to download the service manual

howdy!