800 PowerTek motor, everything is stock. First ride on sled, bought with 2000 miles on it. 15 miles from the truck I'm boondocking and doing a few small 100' vert hillclimbs - nothing big enough to even warrant full throttle. 6"-18" heavy powder. Something siezed. Any ideas from the description below?
Climbed a small hill first time and it feels like it's almost fouled out at the top - it wanted to die without a few blips of the throttle. I let it die to see what would happen. Seems to be running rich as it did on the way up the forest road and on a few off-road jaunts. Check plugs and they are black and sooty - so I figure I'll change jets later. Climbed the small hill a second time and lost ~25% power while going up - sidehilled the rest. At the top the motor is idling like it is about to foul a plug and it dies. Pull start and it seems to run fine - maybe it's just jetted rich. Start going back down idling at about 2-3k rpm and it's still sputtering - then it dies again. This time the tach sticks @ ~2200 rpm (thought that was weird, last time it died it dropped back to 0). Then I try to pull the cord and it wont turn the engine over. I pull with about 25lbs force on the cord and something inside lets go and now the pull-start wont engage - goes in and out freely.
Primary clutch will rotate about 1 inch back and forth freely. It will also go about 3 inches further if you really reef on it.
Thoughts?
Local dealer I know said he thinks the crank broke. He said since the primary clutch could be forced to move about 4 inches back and forth and only 1 inch freely, the crank may have sheared and there are just a few metal pieces which are binding. He also noted that if the crank broke it could have shifted toward the pull-start and caused the breakage there.
Hope not. Everyone said the 06's were the good ones... Not how I imagined my first Ski-Doo experience.
Climbed a small hill first time and it feels like it's almost fouled out at the top - it wanted to die without a few blips of the throttle. I let it die to see what would happen. Seems to be running rich as it did on the way up the forest road and on a few off-road jaunts. Check plugs and they are black and sooty - so I figure I'll change jets later. Climbed the small hill a second time and lost ~25% power while going up - sidehilled the rest. At the top the motor is idling like it is about to foul a plug and it dies. Pull start and it seems to run fine - maybe it's just jetted rich. Start going back down idling at about 2-3k rpm and it's still sputtering - then it dies again. This time the tach sticks @ ~2200 rpm (thought that was weird, last time it died it dropped back to 0). Then I try to pull the cord and it wont turn the engine over. I pull with about 25lbs force on the cord and something inside lets go and now the pull-start wont engage - goes in and out freely.
Primary clutch will rotate about 1 inch back and forth freely. It will also go about 3 inches further if you really reef on it.
Thoughts?
Local dealer I know said he thinks the crank broke. He said since the primary clutch could be forced to move about 4 inches back and forth and only 1 inch freely, the crank may have sheared and there are just a few metal pieces which are binding. He also noted that if the crank broke it could have shifted toward the pull-start and caused the breakage there.
Hope not. Everyone said the 06's were the good ones... Not how I imagined my first Ski-Doo experience.
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