96 foreman owner here, mine made it 28 years before it needed its first service. New carb, new steering column and bushings, tie rod ends and she's driving like new again. Unbelievable machine
As a kid, we filled the utility trailer that was twice the size as that one with oak. Had to have my brothers sit on the front rack to keep the wheels on the ground and steer. That honda was a champ. We beat the crap out of that machine, and it took it all. Ended up selling it to a guy at work. As far as I know, he still uses it to plow snow.
My parents got one in 2005. In 2019, my step brother completely submerged it in a creek. Somehow, he got it out. A week later, it's up and running. When I went to visit my parents last Thanksgiving, I tried to start it for giggles. That thing hadn't run in years. Started up 2nd pull
I had a 96 foreman that was used to launch racing jet skis on the beach for a few years until the frame was so rotten that the motor touched the ground, the headlights pointed to the sky, the driveshafts disconnected, and the rear swing arm mounts disintegrated. So i ratchet strapped it back together and made a full legnth "skid plate" for a spine and welded everything to it. Ran great several more years. Sold and the motor it still ran great.
Great video!!! I have a Blue 1988 350D. Absolutely love it. In its lifetime it has needed a muffler and a starter. Until this week when the clutch pack stuck on the shaft. Its at a local shop being repaired as I type. These are wonderful machines. About 5 years ago it was really put to the test. I weigh 260 pounds. Loaded with me, a whitetail buck on the front rack, a doe on the back rack, and a 200 pound buddy half on the doe and half on the seat, we climbed very steep hill about 1/4 mile long using that painfully slow first gear. It handled the pull with no problems. You barely knew it was loaded. We've used it with a winch to easily erect deer stands. Used it to drag food plots for planting and for hauling a weed sprayer to control unruly growth of thorn bushes etc. I don't think there is a better ATV of any brand.
I bought two of them last year, both left for dead by their owners. Today they both run great and are reliable work horses here on our hobby farm. Very well done video, informative, funny and entertaining. Subscribed!
Some friends of mine wanted to go on a fourwheelin trip. They all have fancy new machines and i have none. My friend Ed, who has a kind heart, lent me his 94 300, so's i could come with. I fell in love with that old gal, and even used it to ferry spare parts from the parking lot back to the trail where they both broke down
I've got a 1998 trx400 an I love it. All the power I've ever needed pulling 2 deer out at a time up hills an never hesitates or lacks power. Manual shift with no problems in 25 years.
35 years ago, I drove one of these down the side of a mountain towing a mile of 4/0 ground cable trailing behind. Dick Cepek spider tracs. Frame let go in front (rust) and drove it back to camp with the front axle shifted right by a foot. Quick weld job and good as new. Great bikes.
We’ve got a 97 Forman 400 and it’s proving to have unbelievable reliability, still going strong in 2025. It spent its early life well taken care of on a farm before we brought it home to use on our little 1 acre lot. With oil changes and general maintenance it’ll be good to go for another 28 years.
I had a 1995 one. Forgot the oil cap once and it spit the oil out while revving high in deep snow. It survived to carry another massive whitetail buck over serious dead logs and my Soviet SKS. I loved it. It was just too small. Honda forever. Foreman 500 now.
Damn! Your cinematography is freaking awesome. So are the old Hondas. I can tell you the 250 fourtrax from that era was a big red with 2 front tires. Lol. Exact same from engine back
I found myself in Northern Ontario by myself, no cell phone back in the day with my 96 Honda foreman in the back of my 2 Wheel Dr. pick up truck and no ramps. I backed my truck down about a 40° incline of a 15’ deep ditch. The incline was about the same on both sides with a small gutter in the bottom to manage the water during the low rain/dry season.. The idea was to back up just far enough so that my tailgate would reach the Bank on the other side of the ditch. One tiny slip, and I found myself with my back tires in that gutter, when I tried to drive out absolutely nothing - I was completely stuck. I could, however, get my foreman out of my truck up the opposite bank. I left my truck in neutral, hooked my foreman to a tow rope and Got about a 3 foot running start to jerk the rear tires out of that gutter and with mud flying i managed to pull my truck all the way up that incline, set the parking brake and ran back to my truck and drove it out. I have three atvs now, all of the same era, but the foreman is the beast.
Got one that we bought from a local fire department. Other than a bent rack and a fender crack on the front, it's awesome. Original seat doesn't even have any splits. Hardest part of it's restoration was de-lacquering the fuel tank. New tires, one brake cable, master cylinder, and it's basically ready for another 37 years.
As a kid, we filled the utility trailer that was twice the size as that one with oak. Had to have my brothers sit on the front rack to keep the wheels on the ground and steer. That honda was a champ. We beat the crap out of that machine, and it took it all. Ended up selling it to a guy at work. As far as I know, he still uses it to plow snow.
Great job on this! I learned quite a bit actually. I got an 86 this summer and got a parts one for the racks that looks almost identical to your red one haha. Far too gone and seized but if you need any parts let me know!
I picked up a 2002 Foreman 450S from a neighbor last for free. It was not running, and they said if I could fix it I could have it. Had it running in 15 minutes. Had a hairline crack in the case which I fixed with JB Weld and a leaking base gasket on the head. Both are bone dry now. It starts like it's fuel injected, runs like a top and shifts smooth as butter. I have changed the oil and filter and the fluid in both diffs. I am recovering the seat today. I think I will keep her around!
I've had Polaris and Yamaha units, then my dad brought home a '20 Foreman while I still had my yamaha. About 2 years later I sold the Yamaha and bought a '03 Rancher 350. Love that unit, aint ever selling it
I also don't like how people commenting think this one has anything to do with the later Foreman bikes. There was no other Honda model that was remotely similar. Not one. The Foreman 400s were awesome in their own right, but they're not direct descendants. They're more like a 300 fourtrax than they are like the old 350s.
Growing up my folks had a couple Honda FourTrax 4x4. The steering was very heavy. The first time I rode a rented 2wd ATV the steering was so much softer I went right to the lock without meaning to.
I had an 85 trx250. Thing had gone through hell and back and somehow blew a head gasket. Didn’t know this for months because it kept on running. Had about 80psi of compression, still ran.
As an owner of a 2001 (solid rear axle, purch used in 2010 sold 2015) and 2016 (all independent sus, DCT) Foreman Rubicons, I approve your resurrection attempts! Note your 1st gear would be decent for rock crawling (I do crazy things with my Rubicons!) Top speed is 45, so your 36 isn't too bad.
If you have to use the kick start, I recommend getting on backwards and kicking back with your left leg. I once hopped on after walking in morning dew, right leg slipped, and got slapped in the shin HARD.
In1984 Honda came out with the TRX200 4X2 .. In 1985-87 was the TRX250 4X2 .. In 1986-93 TRX350D 4X4 .. These were Canadian models .. The US didn't have the TRX350D as many years and the US model didn't have the wide flares or front rack standard ...
i just bought a 40 year old trx 350 for $150.00 put gas in and it runs and drives just fine. of course, it' spent the last 30 years covered up in a garage :)
yep the 350s has lots of features the atc 250es big red had like the removable headlight and that first gear they call super low. and yeah the suspension is very weird but kinda cant blame them quads were a very new thing at the time
All I know is that you can tow an F250 highboy home if you have two 250cc honda quads, one of which was towing a trailer with an old 100 liter propane tank that we repurposed into air-on-the-go for airing the tires up where we had no electricity. Get er up to about 50k/hr at full ramming speed for the hills since the quads would be pulling like horses. God hondas are just so minty
Ha, my 85 250SX 3 wheeler had that "removable headlight" except it was held on with like these rubber bungee things, i took it off once in 15 years ......
I pulled 7000 pounds with mine before had three trailers connected together welded together I mean and all I did with it is just go cut trees and fill up all the trailers and it’s around 7000 pounds and it would do it almost every day
Just 36 mph ? My 350 will clock 41. It's a very early 86 . I wonder if they changed high gear ratio in the later models. (Foremans) Best damn ATV I've ever owned. It's out lasted a 400 foreman ss 15 years 10 before it and 5 after it.
People have been hurt on both 3 and 4-wheelers, and 3-wheelers like the Big Red were meant for work and slow speeds on a trail, and in tight woods they can outrun 4-wheelers.
Actually the first Honda 350 was built in 86 and 87 they made 2 versions the trx350a fourtrax just like the 86 and the trx350D foreman fourtrax then in 88 it was the trx350D foreman and what you have is a 87 trx350 fourtrax foreman I own a 87 trx350a fourtrax mine looks just like the 86 but mine has racks.
@@thedoubtfultechnician yea I know they always build a model the year before to be in the line up for the following year they are tanks I’ve owned 3 of them over the years and the fuel pump is it’s weakest link for sure yours is much nicer than mine mines has many more miles on it lol but it’s bored 40 over with a high compression piston and it has twice the torque as stock. Just a great workhorse of a quad.
You get a like and a subscribe for showing me that the light comes off like that! Dont think anybody i know who has one knows that either. As much as its probably completely useless now im definitely gonna ahow everyone lol
God, do I miss shifting ATVs! All this CVT crap that sounds like it’s gonna explode at normal speeds are soooooooo noisy! And provide no improvements over their earlier, manual shifting cousins. THAT was NOT a CORD of WOOD!
96 foreman owner here, mine made it 28 years before it needed its first service. New carb, new steering column and bushings, tie rod ends and she's driving like new again. Unbelievable machine
"unbelievable machine" about sums it up
As a kid, we filled the utility trailer that was twice the size as that one with oak. Had to have my brothers sit on the front rack to keep the wheels on the ground and steer. That honda was a champ. We beat the crap out of that machine, and it took it all. Ended up selling it to a guy at work. As far as I know, he still uses it to plow snow.
I have a 96 too, a monster, a slow monster, but still a monster hahahha
@ lucky to get about 35mph out of them haha but they will pull a full size truck up a hill
Loved the 80’s music and graphics. Wasn’t even looking for this kind of video but I’m glad I clicked on it. Thanks for the entertainment and history.
Man the amount of time and research that went into this beauty I couldn't look away ... I'm talking about the video not the atv
My parents got one in 2005. In 2019, my step brother completely submerged it in a creek. Somehow, he got it out. A week later, it's up and running.
When I went to visit my parents last Thanksgiving, I tried to start it for giggles. That thing hadn't run in years. Started up 2nd pull
I had a 96 foreman that was used to launch racing jet skis on the beach for a few years until the frame was so rotten that the motor touched the ground, the headlights pointed to the sky, the driveshafts disconnected, and the rear swing arm mounts disintegrated. So i ratchet strapped it back together and made a full legnth "skid plate" for a spine and welded everything to it. Ran great several more years. Sold and the motor it still ran great.
Great video!!! I have a Blue 1988 350D. Absolutely love it. In its lifetime it has needed a muffler and a starter. Until this week when the clutch pack stuck on the shaft. Its at a local shop being repaired as I type. These are wonderful machines. About 5 years ago it was really put to the test. I weigh 260 pounds. Loaded with me, a whitetail buck on the front rack, a doe on the back rack, and a 200 pound buddy half on the doe and half on the seat, we climbed very steep hill about 1/4 mile long using that painfully slow first gear. It handled the pull with no problems. You barely knew it was loaded. We've used it with a winch to easily erect deer stands. Used it to drag food plots for planting and for hauling a weed sprayer to control unruly growth of thorn bushes etc. I don't think there is a better ATV of any brand.
I wish that companies could make machines like these again. Not everything needs to be a computer on wheels.
If it’s a computer on wheels it’s a double revenue source: your money and then your private data
The basic foot shift rancher is not too bad
that headlight is pretty kickass tho
I bought two of them last year, both left for dead by their owners. Today they both run great and are reliable work horses here on our hobby farm. Very well done video, informative, funny and entertaining. Subscribed!
The wife "helping" was awesome
Some friends of mine wanted to go on a fourwheelin trip. They all have fancy new machines and i have none. My friend Ed, who has a kind heart, lent me his 94 300, so's i could come with. I fell in love with that old gal, and even used it to ferry spare parts from the parking lot back to the trail where they both broke down
I've got a 1998 trx400 an I love it.
All the power I've ever needed pulling 2 deer out at a time up hills an never hesitates or lacks power.
Manual shift with no problems in 25 years.
35 years ago, I drove one of these down the side of a mountain towing a mile of 4/0 ground cable trailing behind. Dick Cepek spider tracs. Frame let go in front (rust) and drove it back to camp with the front axle shifted right by a foot. Quick weld job and good as new. Great bikes.
Haha I love the video man, funny content and good content too! I am watching all the way through not even just skipping like I often do!
We’ve got a 97 Forman 400 and it’s proving to have unbelievable reliability, still going strong in 2025. It spent its early life well taken care of on a farm before we brought it home to use on our little 1 acre lot. With oil changes and general maintenance it’ll be good to go for another 28 years.
You're right! I DO need a Honda Foreman!
I had a 1995 one. Forgot the oil cap once and it spit the oil out while revving high in deep snow. It survived to carry another massive whitetail buck over serious dead logs and my Soviet SKS. I loved it. It was just too small. Honda forever. Foreman 500 now.
Love this channel - always good for laughs and usually very interesting! Well done!
Nice Vice Grip Garage refrence, a guy would love to see you fix that ole yard ornament
It wasn’t easy!
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Damn! Your cinematography is freaking awesome. So are the old Hondas. I can tell you the 250 fourtrax from that era was a big red with 2 front tires. Lol. Exact same from engine back
I found myself in Northern Ontario by myself, no cell phone back in the day with my 96 Honda foreman in the back of my 2 Wheel Dr. pick up truck and no ramps. I backed my truck down about a 40° incline of a 15’ deep ditch. The incline was about the same on both sides with a small gutter in the bottom to manage the water during the low rain/dry season.. The idea was to back up just far enough so that my tailgate would reach the Bank on the other side of the ditch. One tiny slip, and I found myself with my back tires in that gutter, when I tried to drive out absolutely nothing - I was completely stuck. I could, however, get my foreman out of my truck up the opposite bank. I left my truck in neutral, hooked my foreman to a tow rope and Got about a 3 foot running start to jerk the rear tires out of that gutter and with mud flying i managed to pull my truck all the way up that incline, set the parking brake and ran back to my truck and drove it out. I have three atvs now, all of the same era, but the foreman is the beast.
Dude as a kid i road one of these flat out on gravel roads 100s of miles. Seriously we went everywhere on that thing, a beast.
Got one that we bought from a local fire department. Other than a bent rack and a fender crack on the front, it's awesome. Original seat doesn't even have any splits. Hardest part of it's restoration was de-lacquering the fuel tank. New tires, one brake cable, master cylinder, and it's basically ready for another 37 years.
You really did a fantastic job on this video!! 👏🏼😎
Love your content. Absolutely hilarious. Nice find on the ATV looks awesome
As a kid, we filled the utility trailer that was twice the size as that one with oak. Had to have my brothers sit on the front rack to keep the wheels on the ground and steer. That honda was a champ. We beat the crap out of that machine, and it took it all. Ended up selling it to a guy at work. As far as I know, he still uses it to plow snow.
Man I love you’re editing style
Great job on this! I learned quite a bit actually. I got an 86 this summer and got a parts one for the racks that looks almost identical to your red one haha. Far too gone and seized but if you need any parts let me know!
We have a 2003 Fourtrax Foreman 400, and it's a trooper. Love it.
Awesome video man! I watch a lot of these atv vids and the way you do yours are a perfect and cometary is great 😂
Dammit guess I gotta buy more atvs to review.
I picked up a 2002 Foreman 450S from a neighbor last for free. It was not running, and they said if I could fix it I could have it. Had it running in 15 minutes. Had a hairline crack in the case which I fixed with JB Weld and a leaking base gasket on the head. Both are bone dry now. It starts like it's fuel injected, runs like a top and shifts smooth as butter. I have changed the oil and filter and the fluid in both diffs. I am recovering the seat today. I think I will keep her around!
I've had Polaris and Yamaha units, then my dad brought home a '20 Foreman while I still had my yamaha. About 2 years later I sold the Yamaha and bought a '03 Rancher 350. Love that unit, aint ever selling it
I have a 2007 Honda Foreman, less than 4,000miles, why when I kick it up into 4-5 th gear does it make a loud clang or difficult to get into gear?
11:40 when I plowed with a fourtrax, I just wired the actuator on the engine tight so I never needed to pull the lever at all. It was very nice 👌
Subscribed. That intro was great! The rest of the video was good too👍
cool video thanks for taking the time
Grandpa had a 86 i ride the thing like a madman nd it was still brand new
I had a blue 1987 350 Foreman. I still miss it. Sold it about 20 years ago when I bought a 2002 450 Foreman S. Both very dependable machines.
I have a 1987 blue 350 foreman! I wonder if it could be the same one...
Good content dude. I very rarely sub to channels but you got one.
I also don't like how people commenting think this one has anything to do with the later Foreman bikes. There was no other Honda model that was remotely similar. Not one. The Foreman 400s were awesome in their own right, but they're not direct descendants. They're more like a 300 fourtrax than they are like the old 350s.
Gruß aus Thüringen ja das Ding läuft immer und diese Ingenieur s Kunst sollte jedem Studend in der Uni beigebracht werden
Growing up my folks had a couple Honda FourTrax 4x4. The steering was very heavy. The first time I rode a rented 2wd ATV the steering was so much softer I went right to the lock without meaning to.
I had an 85 trx250. Thing had gone through hell and back and somehow blew a head gasket. Didn’t know this for months because it kept on running. Had about 80psi of compression, still ran.
14:30 Yeah remember that low first gear you were gripping about? I was a teenager when that thing was new, it was the baddest ATV around.
JUST bought a 2024..... after 4 thousand miles on a Yamaha 450 this should be a step up.
08' owner here. I'm 100% certain my grandchildren will ride my Foreman.
Dude this was an awesome video!
As an owner of a 2001 (solid rear axle, purch used in 2010 sold 2015) and 2016 (all independent sus, DCT) Foreman Rubicons, I approve your resurrection attempts! Note your 1st gear would be decent for rock crawling (I do crazy things with my Rubicons!) Top speed is 45, so your 36 isn't too bad.
What's the best fuel recomended for an 87 trx350d? Just bought mine
This is the best video on TH-cam!
Incredible video, criminally unknown.
Great video! I love vintage quad content!
Great video. Editing and story on 👉
Hahaha. I'm glad youtube recommend this video. Great editing!
I have an 86 350d blue as well. It's It's tank. Mine has the speedometer option as well.
For some reason this last couple of months I want a 350d. I got a couple 350xs,big reds, trx 400&450 but want 350d now lol
If you have to use the kick start, I recommend getting on backwards and kicking back with your left leg. I once hopped on after walking in morning dew, right leg slipped, and got slapped in the shin HARD.
Hmm, it's almost like you were missing safety gear or something...
Anything. And I do mean ANYTHING!....to piss off the HOA.
Do it.
Does 87a and 87d have same engine?
I would love to know the brand of them tires
I really enjoyed this video man! Great job!!
I appreciate it!
Great video!
In1984 Honda came out with the TRX200 4X2 .. In 1985-87 was the TRX250 4X2 .. In 1986-93 TRX350D 4X4 .. These were Canadian models .. The US didn't have the TRX350D as many years and the US model didn't have the wide flares or front rack standard ...
What's the name of that retro wave song???
Isn’t it awesome? The song is Highway from a channel called Hurricane turtle. Give them a thumbs up and a sub.
Thanks I will be riding my 2000 honda foreman s to this full blast down the road with my Bluetooth speaker. Retro honda foreman.
@@thedoubtfultechnician I give you a A+ on this video.
i just bought a 40 year old trx 350 for $150.00 put gas in and it runs and drives just fine. of course, it' spent the last 30 years covered up in a garage :)
yep the 350s has lots of features the atc 250es big red had like the removable headlight and that first gear they call super low. and yeah the suspension is very weird but kinda cant blame them quads were a very new thing at the time
I didn't know about the headlight that's pretty bad ass, just needs an led bulb.
SHASTA ISN'T OFF BRAND YOU TAKE THAT BACK! SHASTA IS A REGIONAL TREASURE!
As a 1987 Yamaha big bear owner I have to disagree with everything you said on this video 😂
Great one! Subscribed!
Every grandpa had one of these
1986 foreman owner the oblg thibg i jad to replace are the tire and 1 cv booth and this puppy is used pretty heavely to collect lumber in the forest
yooooo this was the best video ever!!!
Wooly Booger on all four corners make it float.
You've GOTTA rebuild the red one!
Ughhhhh fiiiiine
@@thedoubtfultechnician my man
You happy now??
@@thedoubtfultechnician One of the best ones you've made! So yes, I'm happy 😄
Honda makes some pretty unkillable atv’s. The fourtrax 300 and foreman’s are basically invincible
Great video!!
All I know is that you can tow an F250 highboy home if you have two 250cc honda quads, one of which was towing a trailer with an old 100 liter propane tank that we repurposed into air-on-the-go for airing the tires up where we had no electricity. Get er up to about 50k/hr at full ramming speed for the hills since the quads would be pulling like horses.
God hondas are just so minty
There are different types of cords. A pulp cord (8’long 4’X4’) is about X2.5 more than a face cord (4’X8’ 16” deep)which is firewood like you have.
Where to buy in Germany????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????
You should have used one more question mark so people take you extra seriously.
Ha, my 85 250SX 3 wheeler had that "removable headlight" except it was held on with like these rubber bungee things, i took it off once in 15 years ......
I have a 1990 TRX350D .. I bought it new and from new only used for plowing my driveway ..
I pulled 7000 pounds with mine before had three trailers connected together welded together I mean and all I did with it is just go cut trees and fill up all the trailers and it’s around 7000 pounds and it would do it almost every day
tis but a flesh wound on the red knight
Just 36 mph ? My 350 will clock 41. It's a very early 86 . I wonder if they changed high gear ratio in the later models. (Foremans) Best damn ATV I've ever owned. It's out lasted a 400 foreman ss 15 years 10 before it and 5 after it.
People have been hurt on both 3 and 4-wheelers, and 3-wheelers like the Big Red were meant for work and slow speeds on a trail, and in tight woods they can outrun 4-wheelers.
Well, it IS a Honda after all. I’d be even more impressed if it wouldn’t run.
Actually the first Honda 350 was built in 86 and 87 they made 2 versions the trx350a fourtrax just like the 86 and the trx350D foreman fourtrax then in 88 it was the trx350D foreman and what you have is a 87 trx350 fourtrax foreman I own a 87 trx350a fourtrax mine looks just like the 86 but mine has racks.
The first were actually built in ‘85 as ‘86 model years
@@thedoubtfultechnician yea I know they always build a model the year before to be in the line up for the following year they are tanks I’ve owned 3 of them over the years and the fuel pump is it’s weakest link for sure yours is much nicer than mine mines has many more miles on it lol but it’s bored 40 over with a high compression piston and it has twice the torque as stock. Just a great workhorse of a quad.
While the foreman is an incredible machine maybe the next video should be on the Kawasaki bayou.
You get a like and a subscribe for showing me that the light comes off like that! Dont think anybody i know who has one knows that either. As much as its probably completely useless now im definitely gonna ahow everyone lol
Lol loved this video
I own a 2001 Honda Forman with a little over 29000 miles on it, yes 29000
Don't leave it. get the red one from the woods. It believes in you.
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Dude, you put some WORK into this video. This is great.
❤ Honda hat s erfunden das ATV
It’s the wrong color
That’s NewHolland/Ford blue not Honda red
You must fix the red. I have an 87a. Boss.
God, do I miss shifting ATVs! All this CVT crap that sounds like it’s gonna explode at normal speeds are soooooooo noisy! And provide no improvements over their earlier, manual shifting cousins.
THAT was NOT a CORD of WOOD!
Do it! Fix it!
Oh i keep ending up on this channel. Is that my age showing?