i have a 2001 summit highmark 800 im having a very hard time starting it....the last time i went snowmobiling i had to manually put gas in the cylinders to get it to fire up...as soon as the machine warms up it starts just fine....just the initial start is the problem....it definatley seems fuel related becuz soon as i add fuel to air box or cylinders i can get it to fire up......ive tried full choke 20 pulls half choke 20 pulls no choke twenty pulls....it seems to have no fuel from the get go....also the machine seems to run perfect once it finally starts and runs all day with no issues......any ideas where to start......any help would be appreciated thanx......
2001 summit 800 hard as hell to start
- Thread starter dyllyn
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I would start with a compression check. Most of the 800's in 03-05 had bad rings. I was not a Doo guy before 2002 but they could have had bad rings back then. Low compression will make it start hard.
Rings and/or reed cages are delaminated.
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My 01 had issues with the choke, might as well rule it out first...
My 01 had issues with the choke, might as well rule it out first...
My 99 670 has a pump choke and one of the tubes for the primer slipped off, so it wasn't priming and would take between 15-40 pulls to start it... After a couple days I peeped around and noticed a hanging tube... Problem solved. To bad yers is lever choke...
these sleds have a really bad problem with the reed boots..im almost positive thats your problem..had two of theses and had to replace the boots twice on both
were you able to start sled easy after it warmed up with the bad reeds....
yeap
Mine was doing exactly the same thing, first of all make sure you have NO water in the gas. It freezes in the fuel pump. Also check your plug wires. These were 2 things that I found wrong with mine and now it runs fine.
