coyote56

Background on this Quad. Over the past year or so I have been teaching my 7 year old Niece to ride. She loves it, I even went as far as buying her a 2012 Arctic Cat 90cc and getting it up and running. We have a bond, her dad (my cousin) is a deadbeat junkie who abandoned her mother as soon as he found out she was pregnant, so my family has all been helping her over the years. I didn't have a dad or a father figure growing up. That hurts and I didn't want her to feel that way, so I have been taking her fishing, to ball games, aquarium etc etc and now it has progressed into riding four wheelers. So after stopping by the family farm and observing and seeing what I was doing and watch us ride one of our old retired farm hands approached me with something interesting. It seems a few years ago he was making his rounds around his old family farm and came across an abandoned four wheeler in the creek bed on his property. He called the Sheriff, they came and got it and took it. A few weeks later they bring it back to him. They ran the serial numbers, it has/had never been reported stolen. Since it was never reported stolen and it was on his property, as far as they were concerned it was his. He put it in his barn and its been there for 4/5 years now. It was mine if I wanted it. Naturally I jumped at it and picked it up.. Turns out it was a 1997 Suzuki Quad Runner 250 4x4. A bike exactly like the one I had as a teenager. I have decided I want to rebuild and restore it as much as possible to what it was rolling off the factory floor. Maybe I am a little bias but I think these were some of the best quads ever built. The four wheel drive transmission has always been cool as hell to me. Anyway this is going to be my rebuild thread on the bike. These photos are from the day I brought it home. The front half of the plastic is in great shape. The back, has been destroyed, I am looking for a replacement. Since the day I have brought it home I have ordered a replacement stock airbox system, a cover for the battery box and a rebuild kit for the carb.

I am working on one of these as well... a 1997. While l can't tell you exactly what each plug is for, I can tell you that these bikes came with a lot of options. Some of them had the cooling fan (which I am interested in installing on mine.) and in some countries they allow them on the road so they have more lights. I am sure this is probably the same generic wiring harness that Suzuki used on the Quad Runners and the King Quads for over a decade. Only using what they needed to. Yours is looking exactly like mine with all of the missing connections.

yeah, I am getting ready to delete my facebook account. I am tired of it and the drama that comes with it. I am hoping people start migrating back to what made the internet so great for enthusiasts. It seemed you used to be able to find forums for just about anything you were into with hundreds of posts a day. A ton of information on the subject you were looking at. I am already finding this one useful, I have been reading through Another One back from the Dead by Hagbard.

Hello everyone, I just joined hoping to find a board that is more active than the ones I currently use. It seems everyone has gone to facebook now and that really just annoys me... its too hard to keep track of posts you interested in. Anyway.. I live on the boarder of middle and eastern Tennessee. I am a Suzuki guy. I currently own a 2020 Suzuki King Quad 500, a Arctic Cat 90 for my niece and I am working on restoring a 1997 Suzuki Quad Runner 250. I am hoping to find some help with that project here.