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Several breaking 350D's on ebay but as Sam says I may have some. I'll have to check them out but in all honesty by the state of this donor atv I'm not holding my breath. lol

 

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ATV City are breaking one as well, just looked.

 

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Cburt, just a thought, you don't want to sell the 350d as it is do you by any chance? Wouldn't mind another to rebuild.

 

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Rodp, what state are your body plastics on the donor vehicle? I need a battery cover, complete rear panel and the grey fins on one side of the engine bay. This is based on you having these and wanting to sell obviously

Don't really want to sell anything off it but if you're stuck I'll let the cylinders go (assuming they're good of course). The rest of it I'll keep for when a rebuild turns up.
You've obviously now found out that over here these are more of a collectors item than a usable atv now due to no parts available. If you want one that's repairable and parts are relatively available you need to move to a 300.

For good plastics you may end up buying what you can get then buying a plastic welder and hot stapler, about £200 each unfortunately.
A 350D with decent plastics, and running, will set you back £1200+. With bad plastics, rusty frame and rims etc, sort of running but untested for any length of time and you're talking £400 and up (a rough but running quad)

Don't underestimate the time and money involved in rebuilding one of these, you will spend hundreds of £££££££ and lots of hours on it (I mean lots). Ask Shady, he knows all about the hours and $$$$$.:smile:

 

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Rodp, ok no problem I hope you don't mind me asking.
Yes definitely finding it's harder to get parts than expected although it is a 30 year old Quad I suppose!!
All the plastics arent a priority at the moment but thought I would ask all the same.
Once I get the brakes sorted everything is in good working condition and I plan to get out on a few treks with it as it's my first quad then perhaps as you say look to trade it for something a bit more useable.
I managed to get it for £250 off a good friend so think I've got a good deal. I'll use any future profit to put back into the bike and get it looking as good as I can.
Thanks for all your advice!!!

Yes, very good deal. I'd give you £400 for it unseen so long as it runs and transmission etc is OK ? I want a runner to restore, my 300 is almost finished (although there wasn't a lot to do to it) so looking at next personal project.
If no luck with the cylinders I'll check out the ones on this 350,but as I said, parts are very hard to get over here and I like to keep as much as possible. However, if you're stuck they're yours. Seems like parts are still much easier to find in the States, I was born in the wrong country I think. lol

 

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Thanks Sam I'll hopefully get a chance tomorrow to tackle that. It's located on the back part of the swing arm (if that's what its called) between the two wheels?

If it's the vin you're referring to it on a front cross member, look through the front panel and you MAY see it. lol...

You really need to persevere with cleaning and reading the vin, it's a useful thing to have.

 

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Rodp, ok no problem I hope you don't mind me asking.
Yes definitely finding it's harder to get parts than expected although it is a 30 year old Quad I suppose!!
All the plastics arent a priority at the moment but thought I would ask all the same.
Once I get the brakes sorted everything is in good working condition and I plan to get out on a few treks with it as it's my first quad then perhaps as you say look to trade it for something a bit more useable.
I managed to get it for £250 off a good friend so think I've got a good deal. I'll use any future profit to put back into the bike and get it looking as good as I can.
Thanks for all your advice!!!

Yes, very good deal. I'd give you £400 for it unseen so long as it runs and transmission etc is OK ? I want a runner to restore, my 300 is almost finished (although there wasn't a lot to do to it) so looking at next personal project.
If no luck with the cylinders I'll check out the ones on this 350,but as I said, parts are very hard to get over here and I like to keep as much as possible. However, if you're stuck they're yours. Seems like parts are still much easier to find in the States, I was born in the wrong country I think. lol

wrong country, and wrong decade !..lmfaooooooo, ( ain't pay back a '' you know what '' ?!..lol.

Nah, decade was right. I've seen the sixties, seventies and eighties. All the good bits before all this politically correct rubbish came in, and not to mention all the health and safety rubbish along with the current claim culture. It's just "me me me" nowadays from Joe Public and "don't say this, don't do that" from Governments.

No Shady, we've seen the best this planet had to offer, it's downhill from here on in.

 

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That's not too bad a price Goober for a complete back plate and cylinders. Dare say it would be a lot more over here from a uk seller.
Parts for these can be an horrendous price in the uk. Mind you, to be fair some sellers have them up for sale for months due to lack of buyers. I suppose if you break a 350D for parts, then it takes 12 / 18 months to sell all the parts, you have to charge a decent price for them.

 

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Let me check the one I have, don't know what condition they're in though. You after the whole back plate or just cylinders?
I should be able to check them out tomorrow or Friday.

 

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Well, there's good news and bad news.

Good news is I found (made) time to whip o/s/f drum off.

Bad news is as pic, nothing inside, zilch, zero. Also notice there's no front diff :huh:

When bought, very cheap, all I was bothered about was the rear end, and that was good. Everything else was a bonus so never looked, just winched it on the trailer and away. Don't know what happened to the diff, looks like someone had front end trouble at some time and just stripped the front out. No obvious welding on front tube but drive shafts have been cut off at the outer joints.

 

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This is just a donor machine, no intention of doing anything with it. My son wanted the axle for his 300 and I've kept the rest as parts for when I finally find a suitable 350D to rebuild.

 

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They're getting rare over here, still quite a few about but good ones fetch decent money and rough ones are owned by youths who just want "sumfink fast innit dat gows frew muddy water easy". And they end up wrecked.
One on facebook he's been trying to sell for about £800, the jerk's got a picture on his own timeline (?) of it sat underwater in a cut while he's waiting hours for someone to tow him out. Next picture is muddy oil being drained out the engine.

And he wonders why he can't sell it :huh:

Ones needing work or, in particular, parts go for sensible money sometimes because of availability and price of parts. It's just a matter of waiting for a basically sound one needing restoration.

have you priced up parts yet? :blink: Don't bother with Chinese ones like the £20 fuel pumps etc, don't last 5 minutes. :icon_wink: