Just purchased a Tao Bull 200

[dugndeep]

It's still pending but hopefully it will go thru.I wanted to get it thru Affirm financing but my 738 point credit score was to low to get the full financing so they wanted me to pay $700 down and they would finance the rest.Currently don't have $700 cash so I went another route which will cost more in the end due to interest charges.It's all good,will be my first atv that I have owned after countless number of motorcycles.

http://www.taotao.us/default/assets/...20START(1).pdf

[dugndeep]

Overnite-UPS Freight just called and says they'll be here between 3 and 6 o'clock tomorrow afternoon.Caller ID says Overnite Transportation.Tracking number & website says there is just 1 piece,other people have stated they received the atv plus a big box,I just hope there is no damage.I bought it from Txpowersports but the tracking says 360powersports.They was going to bring it by Semi,I live on a dead-end one lane country road up a hill with a gravel driveway with a semi sharp right hand turn,so the lady put me on hold and then come's back and said they would use a big box truck with lift gate,I hope that holds true.I've read some horror stories about UPS freight shipping,specially about damaged stuff.I will keep my fingers crossed.

[JerryHawk250]

Originally Posted by dugndeep

Overnite-UPS Freight just called and says they'll be here between 3 and 6 o'clock tomorrow afternoon.Caller ID says Overnite Transportation.Tracking number & website says there is just 1 piece,other people have stated they received the atv plus a big box,I just hope there is no damage.I bought it from Txpowersports but the tracking says 360powersports.They was going to bring it by Semi,I live on a dead-end one lane country road up a hill with a gravel driveway with a semi sharp right hand turn,so the lady put me on hold and then come's back and said they would use a big box truck with lift gate,I hope that holds true.I've read some horror stories about UPS freight shipping,specially about damaged stuff.I will keep my fingers crossed.

Txpowersports and 360powersports are owned by the same person. Manny

[dugndeep]

It arrived yesterday afternoon and seems to have survived the freight shipping.Actually looks real good.They could give you some kind of instructions on how to put it together.

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Figured I would go ahead and change the oil before I put the floor boards on,is the drain plug the first picture or the second picture?What is that in the 3rd picture,is it suppose to be connected to something or does it just hang there?

[dugndeep]

5 stars and a thumbs up to Manny and TxPowerSports.com,got it put together and put some alcohol free gas in it and it fired right up.Thumbs up to UPS freight shipping also,arrived without a single problem.5 days from order to delivery for atv and 7 days for my MCO/title.Couldn't be happier.

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Going over atv and adding those rubber washers I made plus a rubber sealing washer on the backside plus a locknut.Having to chase a few plus 1 screw holding the plastic cover on the bumper,down at the bottom,didn't even have a nut on it.Don't know if it was suppose to have a nut but it does now along with a sealing washer.Got those fender washer's and rubber washer's installed under the seat also.One nut on the back had already slipped under the plastic body.
I'm noticing a clicking sound when I am going down hill coasting,got to looking and the chain tensioner spring must be rubbing on the chain every now and then.I'm going to have to try & bend the open end over the keeper to keep it from doing that.Also checked my exhaust pipe where it comes out of the head,one nut was alright but the other was a little loose.Takes a 12mm wrench or socket.

Still waiting on my new hour meter from TxPowerSports,I do hope they honor the warranty.They told me to go to partskit.com and get the part number which I did.101382 I believe what it is.

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Here's what I got to stop up those tubes on the rear hub protector to keep water and mud from going up inside there.They will have to be cut off some once their shoved up in there,going to put some synthetic Super Lube grease on them so they will drive up in there farther and then cut them off flush.These were the smallest that Lowe's had in stock.

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I'm going to use part of the shipping crate to make my engine to frame brace.Along with those rubber pads and bracket that held the atv's axle during shipping.

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I got my working hour meter today in the mail from TxPowerSports and got it installed.All's good so far.I noticed it was already on before I even plugged it in,not running of course.So I took the non-working one apart and seen it had a 3V watch battery in it.I reckon it will keep the memory after the battery goes dead.

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Went into the jungle yesterday and managed to break 2 of the tabs off my left front wheel dust cover,just wondering if a name brand atv's dust caps would work or go ahead and pay the $10+ dollars for a new one.There like $6 a piece.
Outside tab to outside tab is about 2.44".

[dugndeep]

I just went ahead and ordered one from VMC chinese parts.

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I added a metal tab in the middle of the 2 tabs that got broke off by a short log getting hung up in there as I went by a downed tree going thru the jungle.

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Here's a video in Russia or Ukraine with one riding a Bull200,well they call it something else.

Definitely needs to put a winch on it.Might be similar to the 150 Bull.

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My air box pipe already has tears in it.