eBay Carb? and petcock? - Honda Foreman Forums : Rubicon, Rincon, Rancher and Recon Forum

fatphatboy88 · 11-07-2011, 01:35 AM

I have a 2003 Recon without the push button shift. I have been debating weather to rebuild my carb(it has been flooded in a very muddy hole before and lots of bad gas, neither were my doing) or buy one of the $45 ebay carbs. My carb is dumping fuel out of the float bowl overflow and wont hold a tune for more than a month. I have taken it apart and cleaned it, floats good and not cracked. So I figured for the extra $15 bucks I could just bolt a new carb on instead of rebuilding my old one. The problem is, the cheap ebay carbs dont have the hoses on top like mine.

Mine is like this carb here.

And the cheap ones are like this one here

So could i put the cheap carb on my recon and it not hurt anything, or are those hoses and that little diaphram looking thing that important?

Also, the previous owner that treated this quad so badly, broke the petcock somehow. So instead of fixing it, I am assuming he just bypassed it because the fuel stays on no matter how the knob is turned. Anybody know of a cheap replacement because the ones i saw on eBay were $80.

wydglide · 11-07-2011, 03:03 AM

yours is a 20mm Carb, I think you would be $$ ahead if go back stock!

have you ever had it dunked,(cleaned in a submerged vat of Carb cleaner) & rebuilt it with all new Gaskets and jets? reason
I ask is you could having some thing stop up a passage's enough to allow it to run right after hand cleaning, but not 100% cleared, you can buy a Gallon of that stuff at your local auto parts store!

rich450es · 11-07-2011, 08:40 AM

welcom to the forum !
here look at this
Honda 250ex Recon Gas Fuel Petrol tank HO17510-HN6-A30 | eBay
its a used tank with the petcock for $27 +shipping (cheaper then a new petcock!)

fatphatboy88 · 11-07-2011, 11:36 AM

It was "supposedly" taken apart and soaked overnight in parts cleaner and rebuilt by the guy that rebuilt the engine for it. Weather that actually happened or not i dont know. Because when I took the float bowl off it was varnished up at the bottom. I just think it would be easier to just bolt on another carb than rebuild this one and fiddle with tuning it. I found the Recon service manual last night and found out that those hoses are vacuum tubes and the diaphram is an air cut off valve. Would my recon run fine if I got the ebay carb without the air cut off valve and vacuum hoses?

11-07-2011, 01:35 AM	#1 (permalink)
fatphatboy88 Honda Rider Join Date: Jul 2009 Posts: 2	eBay Carb? and petcock? I have a 2003 Recon without the push button shift. I have been debating weather to rebuild my carb(it has been flooded in a very muddy hole before and lots of bad gas, neither were my doing) or buy one of the $45 ebay carbs. My carb is dumping fuel out of the float bowl overflow and wont hold a tune for more than a month. I have taken it apart and cleaned it, floats good and not cracked. So I figured for the extra $15 bucks I could just bolt a new carb on instead of rebuilding my old one. The problem is, the cheap ebay carbs dont have the hoses on top like mine. Mine is like this carb here. And the cheap ones are like this one here So could i put the cheap carb on my recon and it not hurt anything, or are those hoses and that little diaphram looking thing that important? Also, the previous owner that treated this quad so badly, broke the petcock somehow. So instead of fixing it, I am assuming he just bypassed it because the fuel stays on no matter how the knob is turned. Anybody know of a cheap replacement because the ones i saw on eBay were $80.

11-07-2011, 03:03 AM	#2 (permalink)
wydglide Honda Red Wing Rider Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: your Nightmares Posts: 5,489	yours is a 20mm Carb, I think you would be $$ ahead if go back stock! have you ever had it dunked,(cleaned in a submerged vat of Carb cleaner) & rebuilt it with all new Gaskets and jets? reason I ask is you could having some thing stop up a passage's enough to allow it to run right after hand cleaning, but not 100% cleared, you can buy a Gallon of that stuff at your local auto parts store! __________________ P.M. Campbell Co Lodge F&AM #778 99Yamaha Wolverine 06 Foreman TRX500 09 Foreman TRX500 "Trail Dancer" 25" Big Horn's Mad Dog Rear Bag Body Armor Bash Plate Gamin 76CSx GPS, W/RAM Mount Warn XT25 conversion to XT30 Glide Build Audio System Serious case of BGD I'm not Frugal, I'm a COB...(Cheap old B@stard) Last edited by wydglide; 11-07-2011 at 03:08 AM.

11-07-2011, 08:40 AM	#3 (permalink)
rich450es Honda Red Wing Rider Join Date: Nov 2010 Location: ludlow,mass Posts: 10,644	welcom to the forum ! here look at this Honda 250ex Recon Gas Fuel Petrol tank HO17510-HN6-A30 \| eBay its a used tank with the petcock for $27 +shipping (cheaper then a new petcock!) __________________ 2000 foreman 450 es-s the fking pig 14% 300 foretrax gear reduction 30in gorila silverbacks on C-5 wheels 2500lb warn winch superatv disk brake conversion kit 2in ssatv lift kit and progressive 512 shocks the original 4in PVC storage tube hurculined racks with rear cargo box czr loud exhaust , uni airfilter and drilled main jet foreman 450 parts for sale pm me for info**

11-07-2011, 11:36 AM	#4 (permalink)
fatphatboy88 Honda Rider Join Date: Jul 2009 Posts: 2	It was "supposedly" taken apart and soaked overnight in parts cleaner and rebuilt by the guy that rebuilt the engine for it. Weather that actually happened or not i dont know. Because when I took the float bowl off it was varnished up at the bottom. I just think it would be easier to just bolt on another carb than rebuild this one and fiddle with tuning it. I found the Recon service manual last night and found out that those hoses are vacuum tubes and the diaphram is an air cut off valve. Would my recon run fine if I got the ebay carb without the air cut off valve and vacuum hoses?

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