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That KIPS head and motor alone is extremely hard to come by in good condition!!I'd bring it back to its original glory but maybe extend rear axle, a-arms, wheels and tires!.just bolt on greatness lol
Rode one new back in 87 (not mine) for a day n loved it !! Sooo much fun!! Happy to see such a clean one still on the road!!! Lets keep these old bikes runnin!! Its like history!! Love it! 😆👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
My uncle has one and he is the only ownerr. I have a lot of fun memories watching him ripping around the farm on it. Wasn’t till I was 18 and finally got a 250x that I realized how fast the tecate is
23 seconds in aside from a pretty awesome quad on the more rare side. The rear Mud Shark tires I had them on my 2nd warrior I bought it brand new fron the dealer 2001 or 02 but those tires were so good and with that more odd tread they were good in wet dry pavement dirt hard packed loose mud snow ice all of the above and just all around excellent tires what a flash back just seeing that pattern that fast knew right away what they were. Excellent find my friend.
The list of parts you went through sounds like my current project on a 2000 Blaster. Wouldn't have bought such a big project if it wasn't for your videos. Thanks for all the info
Always loved these quads, it was a special thing to see/hear one out ripping the trails, they do great donuts while your laying on the front fairing with feet on the front bumper!
Awesome score bro. Hard to find. I met a kid about 10 years ago who has rebuilt one of these aswell as a zilla 500 to absolute perfection. I shared at that Kawi the whole time i was there lol. Ps Keihin carbs are great, pronounced ke-hin. There's a gasket that goes in the middle of them that's replaceable. I always replace them when going through carbs. With age its only a matter of time if not already shot an have seen people throw them away due to this 12$ gasket. Just my 2 cents. Cant wait to see this one come to life again
for real keep that one. its a collector... since he doesnt ride often keep this one for loooks and collector its just soo cool i wouldnt sell it and keep the 400ex for riding wheelies etc
Super rare quad. I've only seen one in person. I think this thing is a keeper or money maker. Maier plastics is about 20 min from me up in Grass Valley California.
@Jared Stevenson Yeah, they go by both names. Spanner is more often used as a general term for any kind of wrench especially in English speaking countries outside USA.
Unfortunately for me I'm so bad with tools I can't screw in a light bulb but I agree with you a 1000% that is the coolest quad I've ever seen in my life and I was 14 years old and 1987!!!!!
My bud owned this it’s a bit off on the steering due to short front a arms but once’s you get rear spacers and front plus 2 a arms trust your gonna love it. Great buy
I love the tecate 4 there a legend of a quad, a rare quad to find its really nice & really good shape hard to find them like that anymore if you can, add to the collection of the baddest stuff you owned. You dont play around, best bike/quad TH-camr around awesome video & find man
Just seen one 2mths ago for sale on marketplace near Toronto for 7k It was out of a guys collection. It Literally looked brand new all original. Like youd be scared to drive it. I was tempted to buy it as im looking for a 2 stroke quad, but i knew ultimately i would just wreck it.
Hope your gonna keep this for your personal collection, it's a beauty for sure. I say just use the parts you have as needed and to cherry it out. keep that thing clean but ride the crap out of it. Awesome bike and you got and amazing deal. Those parts are unbelievable
What’s crazy is I bought a 87 Tecate 4 brand new in 87 and paid 2k. Talk about holding your value. You’re correct it was the fastest 250. Screams on the top end. Banshee was slightly faster but considering it was a 350 twin cylinder pretty impressive. Be safe looking back I consider my self lucky not getting hurt lol.
You said you've been thinking about it since you were 17 that should be of all the machines the one you keep and do the most to I would detail it to the max! Keep it as your special prize! That would definitely be something to hand down to a little one. (obviously years down the road LOL)
I have an 88 Tecate 4--great machine. You've got a classic. Some performance parts are hard to find. Try ILR Performance for big bores and pipes. He specializes in T4s. Oh, and by the way, the 87-92 LT250R can be made very quick. I have one of those too.
I have an 01 kx250 with that exact motor in it because the quad came out of the guys truck bounced down the highway at about 90 mph so it wasn't worth me rebuilding it I'm definitely jealous about that one lol Id pull the engine out of my kx any day to out it back where it belongs in a tacate
I suggest you do a frame off restoration on the this one, she is a vintage racer, would be sick to do some vintage races with it next year. Very sick find!!!
She doesn't sound to healthy. However, with what you paid you could toss the engine into a lake along with the bike, and still get your money back in those parts alone. If I were you id tear it completely apart and reassemble it perfectly, including the motor. This bike is worth it. Keep it, but do a 100% rebuild so you know what its got. Im Always suspect when people tell me a machine has a new top end. Usually means the opposite and more key missing parts. Edit- it deserves original tires too.
Doesn't themotor not usually need to be sent to kawasaki?This is what I heard cause I was supposed to put together one from completely original boxes and the owner of it sent away the motor because he heard that Kawasaki where the only ones that could assemble it because of this specialised tool. Not sure if it's true or not but this is what I've heard.
@@kemperharris7378 Could be, i know he hasn't had a chance to tune it at all either. Go back and listen and watch him when he was trying to kick it. Im nkt taking anything away from him at all. If I had seen that post I would have bought it sight unseen for that price.
Hell yeah I'm pumped to see you ride it and get it all looking new again. Don't rush this build take your time with it. Oh and where is the stock carburetor that was on it?
Hi there ,wow,your voice was out of breath so pumped haha, Where the silencer joins the pipe, shouldn't that have a silicon sleeve over the join with a clamp om each side
hey bud great find it is going to be fun finding parts they are out there but they are going to be expensive but there is plenty out there just have deep pockets. What ever you do DO NOT just do band aid fixes on this thing my buddy still has his from when he was a kid we graduated in 1988 so his parents were like the quad or a party he took the quad and still has it. This thing is a JEM i will get with him and get info for you on where he gets his parts he never has a hard time getting them it is just how much he wants to spend but he gets all the parts he needs no problem. Oh and don't sell it. get rid of the 400 ex's and put the money into that quad.
I wouldn't even touch this thing, looks great as it is. Very cool find. Such a steal. I've always drooled over the tecate trikes but I'm Honda all day.
@@2vintage I've ridden both back in the day. The 3 wheeler will roll over if you look at it crooked. They are pretty quick but the motors are junk. I don't know about smoking 250R's though.
$2000 is one hell of a deal for the bike and all of the parts whenever you are done doing your magic on it you are going to get way more then that when you sell it
That is an awesome quad . I was reading they made about 33 rear wheel horsepower. Depending on how the carb acts you might consider lectron carb. Def race it against the cammed 400 Honda . Maybe you and your Brother can make fast lap out in the woods and do time trials to see who is faster.
Had a 88 back in the early 90's fast fun qaud beat both my buddy's 250rs an after about 2k in performance parts an engine work i was neck an neck with a 350 Tri Z an beat a few banshees the handling wasn't horrible jus very twitchy I added aftermarket wheels that had 3inches extra backspacing that set it wider as well as +2 control arms.
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Keep it!!lol u got the homeboy hookup there bud!!!!
Keep that jewel Hop it to the max I had the Suzuki 250 and it was a beast if this is faster than the Suk and 250 R it's a true
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Extended A arms an swing arm
That KIPS head and motor alone is extremely hard to come by in good condition!!I'd bring it back to its original glory but maybe extend rear axle, a-arms, wheels and tires!.just bolt on greatness lol
Lmk when u wanna sell er lol
This is one of the quads you want to keep, and restore! Very rare and you have all of it, I've seen 1 in 30 years, happy for ya good buy!
I used to own a Tecate exactly like that.. Same year and everything. This one may actually be the one I sold years ago..
Do you remember the vin #?!
2vintage love your videos
@@2vintage No I don't. I owned that quad 25 years ago..
These are awesome
@@2vintage when ever you ready to sell it give me a price
What a deal! My uncle had 2 of them brand new in 87 n 88...he had the green/blue one and white/blue one...super rare quads👍
Dude you really got a good deal, he really hooked you up with all the part's my guy.
Yeah it was nice to have those extra parts included
Keep it
Fuck ya he did. It's so hard to find these in working order. Most are destroyed
Dude, I hope you realize how much you scored with that machine and the boxes of parts. I was blown away
Keep this one don’t sell itttt
Agree...don't let it go. I had a white 88 t4 back in the day. Bought it for $400 and sold it for $600 and i thought that was GOOD lol!!!🤣🤣🤣
Due to it being such a rare bike why dont you do a full ground up build and bring it back to original +
When the notification came up, I was looking at a mint tecate on FB MARKETPLACE 😂😂
hahah you going to buy it?
2vintage Just looking around, but I almost bought one before I got a banshee
@@mr.statefarm9525 well they are super fun to ride. Very light and quick. Basically feels like a banshee but lighter and skinnier lol
2vintage Yeah I bet
2vintage must be nice
Rode one new back in 87 (not mine) for a day n loved it !! Sooo much fun!! Happy to see such a clean one still on the road!!! Lets keep these old bikes runnin!! Its like history!! Love it! 😆👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
I stopped watching this channel until this Kawasaki popped up on my notifications. You basically stole that bike. Good catch.
My uncle has one and he is the only ownerr. I have a lot of fun memories watching him ripping around the farm on it. Wasn’t till I was 18 and finally got a 250x that I realized how fast the tecate is
been wanting to see a series on these for a while glad you picked one up!
cant wait to see the future with this machine. i never even knew these existed 😲
23 seconds in aside from a pretty awesome quad on the more rare side. The rear Mud Shark tires I had them on my 2nd warrior I bought it brand new fron the dealer 2001 or 02 but those tires were so good and with that more odd tread they were good in wet dry pavement dirt hard packed loose mud snow ice all of the above and just all around excellent tires what a flash back just seeing that pattern that fast knew right away what they were. Excellent find my friend.
Mint bike im a 40yr old Aussie and have never heard of the bike before very interesting.
Dam you get some good bargains
The list of parts you went through sounds like my current project on a 2000 Blaster.
Wouldn't have bought such a big project if it wasn't for your videos. Thanks for all the info
Always loved these quads, it was a special thing to see/hear one out ripping the trails, they do great donuts while your laying on the front fairing with feet on the front bumper!
Awesome find!!! Someone really loved that quad at one time. Alot of extra parts that aren't even needed. Someone was thinking ahead.
I remember making this suggestion in a previous video of yours. I hope I somehow planted that idea in your head. Most favorite quad ever.
Yeah i remember hearing about them a while back! Very cool!
@@2vintage Treat her to dinner. She's a keeper.
Those prm parts are hard to find that rear grab bar is worth some money they stopped production so anything prm is hard to find
Good to know!
@@2vintage don't loops it out!!!😂
Had one on my banshee but I sold it
That is part of the prm baja package, I have the full kit on my 05 honda trx450r but mine has a breaklight bar underneath the top one,
Awesome score bro. Hard to find. I met a kid about 10 years ago who has rebuilt one of these aswell as a zilla 500 to absolute perfection. I shared at that Kawi the whole time i was there lol.
Ps Keihin carbs are great, pronounced ke-hin. There's a gasket that goes in the middle of them that's replaceable. I always replace them when going through carbs. With age its only a matter of time if not already shot an have seen people throw them away due to this 12$ gasket. Just my 2 cents. Cant wait to see this one come to life again
I had one in 1993. It was so much fun to ride in the snow. It was like a LT250R but more fun!! Good job, keep it my guy.
Keep it all the same don’t change any colors but strip it down and clean it up black out the motor and make it look bad ass
Fr do this. At least take it apart and clean it up
for real keep that one. its a collector... since he doesnt ride often keep this one for loooks and collector its just soo cool i wouldnt sell it and keep the 400ex for riding wheelies etc
Dude don’t sell that man I’m still on the look out for a quad haven’t had any luck yet been subscribe to you for a while man keep it up man 💯
Super rare quad. I've only seen one in person. I think this thing is a keeper or money maker. Maier plastics is about 20 min from me up in Grass Valley California.
The tool you were thinking of to adjust the chain tension is called a
Spring Preload Wrench
@Jared Stevenson Yeah, they go by both names. Spanner is more often used as a general term for any kind of wrench especially in English speaking countries outside USA.
I had a tecate 4 in 2001 very hard to get parts. But keep it close to stock as you can. That's the way everyone likes them. Great find!
Unfortunately for me I'm so bad with tools I can't screw in a light bulb but I agree with you a 1000% that is the coolest quad I've ever seen in my life and I was 14 years old and 1987!!!!!
I have the tecate 250 three wheeler and they are scary fast so I'm sure if that four wheeler runs properly you'll be happy 😎
We've been too long without a 2 stroke
My bud owned this it’s a bit off on the steering due to short front a arms but once’s you get rear spacers and front plus 2 a arms trust your gonna love it. Great buy
I love the tecate 4 there a legend of a quad, a rare quad to find its really nice & really good shape hard to find them like that anymore if you can, add to the collection of the baddest stuff you owned. You dont play around, best bike/quad TH-camr around awesome video & find man
It’s a good day when 2 vintage posts
I've been looking for a Tecate-4 for almost 5 years now ! They just cannot be found anywhere ! Specially in Canada !
Just seen one 2mths ago for sale on marketplace near Toronto for 7k
It was out of a guys collection. It Literally looked brand new all original. Like youd be scared to drive it. I was tempted to buy it as im looking for a 2 stroke quad, but i knew ultimately i would just wreck it.
I hope you in joy that beast. Good luck. I want to see it finished,and avid of you riding around with it.
My man!! What a score!! Very cool bro
Id keep this thing bro looks better than the Honda 250r quads and the quad zillas man this thing is epic bro
That's pretty awesome! Those are my all-time favorite quads! So fast so powerful, it's crazy!
Hope your gonna keep this for your personal collection, it's a beauty for sure. I say just use the parts you have as needed and to cherry it out. keep that thing clean but ride the crap out of it. Awesome bike and you got and amazing deal. Those parts are unbelievable
What a deal. Parts alone are worth it. I've had one for 20 years. Time to dig it out and wake up the dinosaur
You willing to sell?
@@haydona1845
Sorry dude she's part of the family now. These vids brought new life into it. Gona get er out soon
@@johnhorth4960 I dont blame you. Good luck with it
I live near Philly, that same bike would be 7Grand all day
Thats highway robbery
I'm from Boston. Always pissed me off how everything on the East Coast costs twice as much as anywhere else.
@@jeredalmeida1880 try california, some stupid ass ppl here as well
Thats really cool, the tecate 3 wheeler is sweet to
What’s crazy is I bought a 87 Tecate 4 brand new in 87 and paid 2k. Talk about holding your value. You’re correct it was the fastest 250. Screams on the top end. Banshee was slightly faster but considering it was a 350 twin cylinder pretty impressive. Be safe looking back I consider my self lucky not getting hurt lol.
Definitely a keeper very rare quad I also wanted one when I was younger but were expensive and extremely impossible to find then.
cant wait to see this race the 400ex
You said you've been thinking about it since you were 17 that should be of all the machines the one you keep and do the most to I would detail it to the max! Keep it as your special prize! That would definitely be something to hand down to a little one. (obviously years down the road LOL)
There's enough commercials to pay for several quads in this video. Yay.
Finally a video of one of these things
What a nice machine. I used to own a white tecate 4. Very hard to get parts for in the late 90s
Sweet deal,you are so lucky man!!
I have owned mine for over 20yrs. Very fun machines.
I have an 88 Tecate 4--great machine. You've got a classic. Some performance parts are hard to find. Try ILR Performance for big bores and pipes. He specializes in T4s. Oh, and by the way, the 87-92 LT250R can be made very quick. I have one of those too.
I have an 01 kx250 with that exact motor in it because the quad came out of the guys truck bounced down the highway at about 90 mph so it wasn't worth me rebuilding it I'm definitely jealous about that one lol Id pull the engine out of my kx any day to out it back where it belongs in a tacate
I suggest you do a frame off restoration on the this one, she is a vintage racer, would be sick to do some vintage races with it next year. Very sick find!!!
Never heard of them but it looks sick 🔥🔥
Look them up! They are pretty cool!
There is also a 3-wheeler version.
Bunch of newbs lol
put that thing to as close as stock as you can, and you'll make a huge profit on it
She doesn't sound to healthy. However, with what you paid you could toss the engine into a lake along with the bike, and still get your money back in those parts alone. If I were you id tear it completely apart and reassemble it perfectly, including the motor. This bike is worth it. Keep it, but do a 100% rebuild so you know what its got. Im Always suspect when people tell me a machine has a new top end. Usually means the opposite and more key missing parts.
Edit- it deserves original tires too.
Doesn't themotor not usually need to be sent to kawasaki?This is what I heard cause I was supposed to put together one from completely original boxes and the owner of it sent away the motor because he heard that Kawasaki where the only ones that could assemble it because of this specialised tool. Not sure if it's true or not but this is what I've heard.
I know what your saying but it didn’t have the silencer on when it was running so that could be part of it
Nvm just say the clip with it on
@@kemperharris7378 Could be, i know he hasn't had a chance to tune it at all either. Go back and listen and watch him when he was trying to kick it. Im nkt taking anything away from him at all. If I had seen that post I would have bought it sight unseen for that price.
Now you better hang on to that one
Very clean love to see the 2 strokes
Hell yeah I'm pumped to see you ride it and get it all looking new again. Don't rush this build take your time with it. Oh and where is the stock carburetor that was on it?
Stock carburetor unfortunately did not come with it!
Nice buy!
Wowwwww that’s dirt cheap. I see them all day for 4grand minimum around New York! Your lucky man.🥺
full on resto be the envy of youtube . it’s all there, don’t mess it up you lucky thing🤩
no shame in putting something back to
stock after all
kawasaki built it like that and it is highly desirable $9000 bike if it’s done right
What a sweet deal i hope you dont sell all this stuff because the previous owner would hate that!
Wow nice find! I had an 88 and only changed the exhaust and it woke up
Hi there ,wow,your voice was out of breath so pumped haha, Where the silencer joins the pipe, shouldn't that have a silicon sleeve over the join with a clamp om each side
16:15 “got a new one of these” as it’s in a package that’s not even open. Yeah that sums it up.
Awesome brother...looks like you did good
Wow the birds in the background must have been really excited too lol
They were
hey bud great find it is going to be fun finding parts they are out there but they are going to be expensive but there is plenty out there just have deep pockets. What ever you do DO NOT just do band aid fixes on this thing my buddy still has his from when he was a kid we graduated in 1988 so his parents were like the quad or a party he took the quad and still has it. This thing is a JEM i will get with him and get info for you on where he gets his parts he never has a hard time getting them it is just how much he wants to spend but he gets all the parts he needs no problem. Oh and don't sell it. get rid of the 400 ex's and put the money into that quad.
I wouldn't even touch this thing, looks great as it is. Very cool find. Such a steal. I've always drooled over the tecate trikes but I'm Honda all day.
2 grand for that what a deal, I've been riding all my life im 28 never even heard of a Tecate 250 but that thing is awesome
I just bought one yesterday....have coolant in the cylinder mixing with oil i have to pull it apart tomorrow and pray the top end isn't shot.
Wow! I would have ran there if I had that opportunity.
Been waiting for a kawasaki atv
I have never seen one of those before and I own a couple of old Kawasakis. Very cool buy.
Great find. Congratulations!
Awesome find
This is what I wanna do when I grow up be a TH-camr and work on vehicles!
Get started! Anyone can do it!
2vintage thank you so much bro you are my idol!
Personally I would rather have the 3 wheeler version but you cant complain
Yeah I'm the opposite..I'd rather have the 4.
@@2vintage 💯
I would rather have the 3 wheeler version to
3 wheeler version is worth a lot. 4 aren't that sought after
@@2vintage I've ridden both back in the day. The 3 wheeler will roll over if you look at it crooked. They are pretty quick but the motors are junk. I don't know about smoking 250R's though.
I have exact same bike w the ATV 2 match..awesome flipper n $$ maker..fast as hell...
That’s a steal!
Also be care not to roll that quad because of the narrow rear axle. You might consider getting a wider rear axle so you can hit corners way faster .
The pop up headlight is so cool
You could of at least took it for a ride for us. Looks pretty sick though. You always find the good ones.
Next video!
$2000 is one hell of a deal for the bike and all of the parts whenever you are done doing your magic on it you are going to get way more then that when you sell it
That bird in the background tho. 😂😂
Coolant leaking into the motor, check the seals in the waterpump my buddies rm125 had that problem.... and why do you always miss 2nd gear?
That is an awesome quad . I was reading they made about 33 rear wheel horsepower. Depending on how the carb acts you might consider lectron carb. Def race it against the cammed 400 Honda . Maybe you and your Brother can make fast lap out in the woods and do time trials to see who is faster.
Dude that's the holy grail!!!!damn good score!!!!
Oh man that thing is sweet
Bad ass bro !!! Clean and mean!!!!
U should fix it completely what a rare gem u r a very lucky person I would fix it and keep it not too many left in that shape
That’s dope man
Also prm is the bomb but since the owner died they dont make em any more and they fetch quite a bit on the used market if in decent shape
That carb is perfect those are next In line to lectron most people prefer those over lectron tbh
You got u a a gem u might wanna hang on to that one they are getting really hard to find my uncle has my old one
Had a 88 back in the early 90's fast fun qaud beat both my buddy's 250rs an after about 2k in performance parts an engine work i was neck an neck with a 350 Tri Z an beat a few banshees the handling wasn't horrible jus very twitchy I added aftermarket wheels that had 3inches extra backspacing that set it wider as well as +2 control arms.
love your videos man